Began this past week in an interesting manner with a rather large storm passing through with tornado force winds. Lots of power outages and such from this past Thursday. Normally, the weird little grid section we're on always goes out of power for one reason or another...or like how it was last month and it went out due to 'equipment failure' as the report had said. Anyway though, we retained power while the rest of the neighborhood that rarely looses power, lost it. It was out for nearly 2-3 days depending on location and my partner even had a day off of work due to the lack of power at his work place. So yeah, interesting week.
In other news, as of this post, I have completed this month's page count and am currently sitting on around 5 buffer pages, more if compared to the public posts, but Patreon is ahead so I base the count off of that. That's at least much better than were I was before and if all goes well, I may even be able to complete more soon too. I do still have a bit of other work to do this month before I can jump into extras, but for me, this is quite the improvement compared to the previous months. There's still plenty I need to do but am slowly getting through things bit by bit, so can't complain. I won't be taking on further work for this month, and thus will focus on the things I have left, so that's quite a first for me in a very long time.
Even postcards have been ordered and will be working on videos again here soon too, so hopefully should have more posts going on in other locations. I'm still rather low in terms of patrons and growing an audience and figuring out how to be better connected but something surely has to give one of these days. Till then, just going to be hammering away as I usually do.
Lastly, due to the issues we've been having with what should be a new vehicle, we are trading it in for something different because it's honestly getting far too annoying with how many times we've had to take it for both major and minor problems that keep popping up. We'll be looking at something and this time, we did a deeper dive into our homework for it so hopefully this time, it will end up being something we keep and not have to take in every couple months for some weird noise or leaking or some electronical bit going out, etc. It won't be as fancy as the one we're turning in, so hopefully should eliminate all the electronical issues, which are more nuisance than problematic, but something that shouldn't be going on THIS fast.
On a much more bright and shiny note. Thanks to you guys, we've SMASHED the goal this month. This ended up being extra helpful as the prices of Mail Club postcards and things I order has gone way up due to the tariffs. So, sad to say, as much as I love the company I order my prints from, I'll have to find something else and go from scratch again because, unless the raise the goal by another chunk, I won't be earning enough to save and right now, with me being so close to finishing book 1, I need to be able to save that money so I can get books printed one day. That already is going to cost one heck of a pretty penny but I need to prepared. I've still got time, but no time like the present to prepare for the future. I already know that even with a kickstarter for the book, I cannot see it earning what it may need to get a few books printed simply because, as far as I notice and see from logs, the audience count is far too small for me to be able to raise enough. It's a sad fate at times, but it is what it is. I'll find a way though, one of these days.
Thank you for everyone's support and patience!
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