...this @$%%^& month.

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I'm just going to quote the blog.

Hey guys, I’ll try and keep this brief.

At the end of last month, I suffered a fall at my job and broke my left arm. It wasn’t bad-- the cracks didn’t extend to my shoulder or elbow, and it’s healing nicely. But I’ve been out of work for a few weeks, so I won’t be able to go back until partway through January, and I’m running through what little I’ve saved.

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I tend to take long walks. Part of this is from sheer necessity: I still don't have a replacement car and local mass transit defaults to 'joke'. But quite a bit is in the name of plotting, because there are days when I think best on my feet. Chapters, one-shots, novels have been constructed in the course of such journeys. There are people who wonder what was going through my head on some of the stranger concepts, and it's rather hard to tell you -- but if you want to know what was

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Let’s start with the silly stuff.

The ‘verse chat server has a December tradition: we open advent calendars. One window a day, starting on December 1st, for twenty-four days. We’re doing it again this year and when I say ‘we’, I mean anyone with a calendar is welcome to come in and do their daily unboxing. All I ask is that participants schedule their times and keep them consistent. (I’ll be going at 7:30 p.m. EDT on each night.)

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I won’t try to summarize. Anything I might say only cheapens his words. This is his pain. The time when he needs to know we’re there.

Please read his blog.

Then, if you’re willing, offer what hope you can.

There are times when it can take me a while to not just figure out how to respond on a Patreon sponsor's tier benefit question, but to decide exactly what I'm actually answering.

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I promised you blogs.

The universe, when offered the prospect of travel, offers bemusement. Because travel is the state in which things not only go wrong, but do so while you have very little recourse. Also, the bad stuff is probably going to happen while you're hauling a suitcase. And maybe you're going to wind up hauling it down a volcano. Or up a series of switchbacks for a few feet. Possibly a few hundred. Also, there are going to be stairs.

So. Many. Stairs.

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So for all of you who've been waiting years to throw heavy rocks at me until I die, sorry to have gotten your hopes up like that.

It's actually this.

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