The worst possible alternative.

Photo copyright Aji, 2023; all rights reserved.

The snow is almost gone even at the highest elevations now. Of course, that's what happens when December is filled with days at sixty degrees and more.

We were supposed to have snow tomorrow; now they've yanked that possibility away from us and replaced it with high winds, which is the worst possible alternative.

It's not just that they're annoying and inconvenient, although there's that, too. But there is no weather phenomenon in the world that sets my joints on fire like high winds do. And if yesterday and today were brutal, I suppose that means that I can expect tomorrow to be worse.

And it looks like I won't be able to pick up my new meds before Monday. Why? Because the pharmacy's registered pharmacist is out sick, which means that it's closed, which means that nothing's getting filled. Of course, nobody wears masks, nobody distances, nobody does a single goddamned thing required in a pandemic, and that's why the pharmacist is out sick, but people just simply refuse to do the bare minimum. And now, I'm really going to have to keep away from people, because as of next week, my immune system, already compromised, will be nonexistent. Speaking of worst possible . . . .

Through it all, I still have to make sales, of course. We've had a couple of them over the weekend, but we'll need to sell a lot more between now and year's end, obviously. My Patreon for the month is down ~$250 at the moment [that's how much it was short on the December 1st payout for subscriptions for the month of November, and so far, all of those still haven't been paid]. My guess is that those won't materialize later in the month; that will be the penalty [or one of them anyway] for taking a vocal stand about the genocide being perpetrated against Palestine and its people now. Of course, we haven't brought in anywhere nearly enough sales all year. It's grim.

And aside from all of that, I also need to bring in at least $6K in sales between now and year's end to cover tax prepayments, and we haven't hit the $1K mark on that yet. Normally, I would've been paying them quarterly, but not this year; we haven't had enough sales to do that, and I'm behind on everything else, too, all while my illness worsens seemingly by the day. Until those prepayments are off my desk, I can't relax, can't do anything other than push to get them covered. I really need help. As always, all the links are listed below, and sales are the most important:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (the liquid soaps I had on the list are now refusing to ship to us, so I've replaced them with two others, at the top of the list, for now, and they're the current priority [or Amazon cards, and I can order them myself]); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

There's lots of fabulous work on the site, and there will be much more in the days to come. The way this year has gone, things will still be grim for a good while and the holidays are already here, so please share all of the links. 

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