Reason eleventy-one.

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Reason eleventy-one why you can never believe official forecasts around here. 

That was the sky this morning. We were supposed to have zero chance of rain today and tomorrow. Then, those clouds, particularly their counterparts to the west [out of range to the left of the viewer's eye here]m built up into a massive blue-black wall. 

They altered the forecast with a quickness. Rain to begin at 1:30 and continue for a couple of hours: "70% chance."

Uh-huh. A few minutes later, as the wind kicked up, I watched it blow the clouds apart, and what remained it sent around the peaks away from us. Meanwhile, the weather people informed me that the rain would continue until 3:30.

To continue, it first has to fall, you numpties.

I doubt we'll get anything today but the heat and the wind.

In my case, of course, there's always the pain. I get that no matter what. This week has been a nightmare on that front, and yesterday and today are both exceptionally bad. The hell of it is that there isn't anything I can do about it. They won't let me have enough pain meds to numb it, and when it's organic pain caused by full-body damage to joints and connective tissue and muscle, it's not like you can "positive-think" yourself out of perceiving it, FFS.

And I can feel the depression returning, because there's nothing I can do. I'm not even angry; I don't have the energy to be angry. I'm just sad. This morning, I realized too late that I'd forgotten to pass an important message on to Wings; it worked out okay, but the whole reason I forgot? Is because right now the pain is so bad that I literally cannot think.

Meanwhile, the work piles up, I'm slower than ever, and I can't even begin to get done everything I need to do. 

And then there's the new ell tank coming up in a couple of weeks. Of course, all that expense to come means that we still need shares, and we most definitely still need sales, several grand's worth of sales, until I can get everything covered that has to get covered. Which means I have to get caught up on the work somehow. Someone, please, tell me how I'm supposed to do all this. Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (new priorities, needed for Miika, and after refilling her meds we just can't swing it:  3-4 pairs of the fly traps [the second item on the list]); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year last year, and the first half of this one at least as bad, we urgently need to move 2025 onto a better footing, because taxes to this Nazi administration have already tapped us out and we still owe more anyway, so please share all of the links. 

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