Blown it.

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What was that I was saying yesterday about no dignity? Either of 'em [or Cricket, the feral, either].

I have really blown it. The holiday season this year, which for purposes of our work is three months long, forced me to push my body way beyond endurance. Since then, I've been pushing it to try to catch up on so much that Iv'e had to neglect so long to focus on the business. And when I woke up this morning, I knew I was in trouble.

It's not just the excruciating full-body pain this time, although there's that, too. It's also the fact that I woke up with my right knee slightly dislocated, the joint having swollen badly internally. In an ideal world, I would have been able to stay off it all day, but we don't live there. And now, tonight, it's completely nonfunctional, the pain is indescribable, and I can barely walk. Tomorrow requires me to stand in line, and I don't know if I can do it.

This is what lupus and RA do. it doesn't require a trigger or a proximate cause; my joints dislocate in my sleep, without me even moving. And this level of pain is something that I wouldn't wish on anyone.

And there's not a damn thing I can do about it. This is my life, and it's only going to get worse.

And I don't have time for any of it. We're both beat now, and the workload looks about the same for tomorrow, and all of this coming week. For us, aside from beating back the Nazis and Klan, that also means a much better sales year, with fewer catastrophes outside our control, than the last two have presented us. And that means, just to break even, at least one sale per week. To that end, links are here [and there'll be a new coil tomorrow, at the very least]:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here [priorities are the rugs, to replace those destroyed 2 years ago by the leachfield collapse and ensuing septic disaster; and the LaminaSaver, because apparently Miika's out of it again];
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

And we do still need to make those regular weekly [daily now, really] sales, so please share all of the links. We really do need to begin this year on a better footing than the last two.

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