Real red.

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

 

That was early-ish this afternoon: real red down here; snow on the peaks. No precipitation here, though . . . until around 5 PM, and since then, it's been bucketing down. It's not a cloudburst; it's not quick and then gone. This is stalled overhead again, expected to continue at this pace until midnight or after, and with flood watches in effect again.

This is going to be a hellish week. Last week was awful for so very many reasons, and this one is likely to be harder still. I'm going to be unavailable for almost everything, because my time has to be spent on things I should not have to be spending it on, but bureaucrats are assholes, and here we fucking are.

Tomorrow is also chemo day, and I really wish that while it's suppressing my autoimmune markers [and making me feel generally like shit], it would also do something about suppressing the physical symptoms and the pain, but apparently not. My hands are completely useless; I can't even flip off the stupid political ads on TV. I might have to start using talk to text if this is the way it's just going to be now.  But I don't want to have the fucking microphone on on this thing, either. My feet also seem to be permanently useless now, too. I thought once the hydroxychloroquine [baseline lupus med, to which I had a whole host of rare but known reactions] was out of my system, that would change, but I seem to be back to where I was when I was taking that crap. And where I was then was contemplating a wheelchair.

I'm so tired. I am in so much constant pain, and nothing works. It's one thing to have my shoulders, hips, knees, whatever hurt [and they do, unrelentingly]. But to have both hands and both feet become useless simultaneously [and in constant agonizing pain, too] is a whole other order of magnitude of fuckery.

And it just keeps putting me further and further behind every day. Clearly the rest of the year is going to be very hard. And I've still got to bring in a lot more sales through the end of the year. It's been hellishly expensive already, and we've also got some other big-ticket things to take care of between now and then, and that only happens if we make some sales now. And we can still use help with shares, testimonials, wishlist stuff, etc. To that end, links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here [Too many obligations, too many folks in need; I can't justify spending money on them right now, but I'd really love to be able to get the rest of the towels and the second bath mat];
• 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, a year that, so far, has been very grim.

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