It's *something*.

Photo copyright Aji, 2025; all rights reserved.

Beautiful skies. Still no snow.

It's going to be deadly cold tonight, though, and even worse overnight tomorrow night. It's seems all too horribly apt for what tomorrow will be. Very dark, and very cold, for a lot of people. Because these monsters?  They really do want people dead.

The state, at least, has declared a state of emergency for affected counties with regard to the cold, which triggers a change in the way shelters handle intake. The local one is taking everyone, including their pets, even if they've been banned for cause before. The local ag building is being prepped to serve as an overflow warming center once the shelter reaches capacity. 

It's not a substitute for housing everyone properly, but compared to a lot of the country? It's something.

Still . . . . It's been a hard, hard week, for so very many reasons. It's been a lot harder on some other folks here. With the sudden loss of one of the major folks in the local aid movement this week, the outreach campaign's organizer is having to do a lot of, well, re-organizing. Among current needs are a new address for having wishlist items shipped, and also the space to keep them while they're being sorted and passed out for distribution. Some of that is already under way, but it's going to take some days to get everything in place, so I'm not going to share the wishlist for a few days. As screwy as shipping is these days, I don't want to risk things getting returned to Amazon, or simply lost in transit, and I also don't want to pile more work on them of retrieving and holding stuff until this is sorted out. Once everything's set, then I'll go back to posting it daily.

Which gives me a few days to focus mostly on chasing sales, which we need to do daily. It takes at least one sale a week [sometimes more] just for us to break even on the year, and last year? We didn't even do half that. So now would still be a good time to buy. TONS of new and fabulous work on the site, and tons more on the way, too.

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 far worse than the last, we urgently need to begin 2025 on a better footing before taxes take every cent, so please share all of the links. 

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