Making up for lost time.

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Current work in progress. I don't know whether the trillion cab is going to be oriented that way or with the point up, but it's fossilized dinosaur bone, and it's very, very cool. It's a bolo, if you're wondering. There's a lot more on his workbench, too; making up for lost time earlier this year.

There's no making up for lost sales, though; we're out of year in the next couple of days. I thought last year was bad, but this year has really been something else, in all the worst ways, and I really need 2025 to improve in that regard. I already know there won't be any improvement for me health-wise, but there's nothing I can do about that. These diseases are progressive, and all the many decades of joint damage while doctors were unwilling to treat me in even the most minuscule of ways are making up for lost time, too. The joint damage is a done deal, all over my body; so is the fact that I will always deal with constant acute and chronic pain every moment. The only hope left is slowing the effects on my organs. But if we can at least have a decent sales year, from jump, then that takes one huge source of stress off me. Of course, I have absolutely no reason to believe that it will happen; given this year, just the opposite. Hope is a stupid, stubborn thing.

And yes, I know we're lucky. The housing crisis worsens daily here. On that note, go here, buy something, or several somethings, off the outreach group's wishlist, and you will literally be saving a life, probably more than one. It's not really possible to overstate how bad it is out there, nor how great the need is. I've sorted it in their Priority order, but once again there's a new order of priorities, not yet entirely reflected in the list itself. This is from the organizer herself:

• The bulk backpacks - at least six 12 packs
• Whistles
• Pepper spray
• Money/document belts (look like tan fanny packs, worn under the clothing  to hide and keep documents safe and protected.
• Bulk dog leashes
• XXL dog harnesses
• Chapstick
• Packs of wipes

The outreach program is giving gear out as fast as they get them, and being mostly housebound now, it's hard for me to get out to pick up any before they're gone. That's why I put some of those essentials on our own wishlist, with a note that they're for the outreach effort; soon, I'll adjust those priorities accordingly, too. 

For us? SALES. PLEASE. THERE'S SO MUCH NEW WORK ON THE SITE. And I need to sell them all, because I still need to make a ridiculous amount of sales to cover all the stuff still in the pipeline that needs covering [laptop, roof AND now the well pressure pump, more medical, always prepaid taxes, etc.]. So: GO BUY! PLEASE. [Yeah, I know; I don't know why I bother, either. As I said, hope is a stupid, stubborn, fucked-up thing sometimes, even if it's also very thin and half-broken.] Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (Priority is the liquid soaps and Amazon cards, probably most useful at this point); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year, this one far worse than the last, we really need to end 2024 on a better footing before 2025 and taxes take every cent, so please share all of the links. 

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