If only everything were so simple.

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Pure joy. They all got marrow bones today, and Stormy wound up with the biggest one of all.

If only everything were so simple.

It's been a hell of a day. the first half of it was hijacked by nonsense, and we're not doing that again. People who want help via the mutual-aid work I do would do well not to underestimate me, not to assume I was born yesterday, not to assume I can be manipulated, and not to cause me to have to deal with a bunch of unnecessary bullshit.

Worse?  Don't do it before I've had my coffee. Also, yesterday was chemo day, and I've had to raise my dosage level again slightly, because the last few days have made it clear that things cannot go on this way, and my pain elvels are off the charts, as are my fatigue levels, and that is not the time to try me with bullshit, either.

Meanwhile, all the work still has to get done: the housework, the paperwork, the sales work, everything. The one thing that came out of the tax nonsense is that I was not losing my mind; last year, we made barely more than 50% of the previous year's sales, which tells you how bad Trump is for business [and for everything else except inflicting harm]. The problem is that everything still has to get paid, and we paid in cash, in full, and now we've got recover a lot of that if we're going to make it through the year. And we've got to maintain it, because we've also got big costs [the side exterior door, for one; the flue cleanings for another; and a set of tires for the truck for a third] immediately ahead. Those three new cuffs are up; in the next couple of days, I'll have his new bolo posted, and possibly a couple of new pairs of earrings, too. But I have got to get us caught up on this awful year in terms of sales. To that end, links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here [and to whomever sent a bunch of items off it that have arrived recently, THANK YOU; there were no purchaser inserts with the items, zip, zero, nada];
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

And we do still need to make those regular weekly sales, so please share all of the links. We really do need to get this year onto a better footing than the last two, and so far, it's been pretty grim.

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