A hot blue sky, high winds, and a lot of smoke haze.

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A hot blue sky, high winds, and a lot of smoke haze.

In other words, exactly the wrong conditions for setting off a bunch of fireworks tonight, but nobody in authority seems to care, so here we are. We don't even have any thunderheads building today; no chance of rain whatsoever.

We don't celebrate this day for what I hope would be painfully obvious reasons, but as our climate falls further into complete collapse [and society, too], it's gone from being an irritating annoyance to something downright deadly. Maybe we can at least induce Cricket [the feral] to come into the house again like he did last year. He lay there facing the stove, and then the water dispenser, the whole time, but it was his first and only foray indoors.

It's a hot, hard day, but we had one good development occur this morning, and nothing can shake that. Nope; it wasn't a sale. Nothing financial, money-related, or in any way material. More valuable than all of them put together, though. So I'm hanging onto that in a big, big way right now, because the way things have been, hope has been in dangerously short supply, and we'll take it where we find it.

Even so, as far as the material world goes, everything's still terrible, and that stress is weighing me down horribly right now. More medical stuff within the next three weeks for Wings; mine gets bumped again. I haven't even bothered to call to find out how much my imaging/scans are going to set us back, because whatever it is, we don't have it. The pain's still here, along with the rest, but if there's no money, there's no money. 

On top of that, I've already missed the deadline with the IRS to avoid the next round of penalties and interest, but I have GOT to get this off my desk, and there's no way I can do that without really major sales coming in. And there's none of that, which means that I am buried under all of this for the foreseeable, so if it's not related to bringing in sales, I'm likely not doing it. [What I am doing is losing my fucking mind, so there's that.] I got the two new solid-silver cuffs up the other day, here and here, plus a new ingot pendant, here; last night, I got the two Art Deco cuffs posted, here and here, and they're fabulous. There are also a ton of new earrings posted in the Earrings Gallery, all from the last month or so. And it likely won't be until tonight, but there's one new Deco cuff, a smaller one, ready to get posted if I can just get to it. Generating income is all that matters at this point, which means sales are all that matters. Go buy! Please! Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (Amazon cards are probably most useful at this point); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year, this one already even worse than the last, we really need to get 2024 onto a better footing, so please share all of the links. 

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