I already told you the first one. The beavers are coming home to the rivers that used to be canyon-drowning lakes. Maybe I am not yet equipped to see them in person yet. But I can at least visit the vicinity, and do recon. <\/p>\n
Reason number two. The southern outskirts of the Utah metroplex are dependably rich in used ALiners in the range of 15 thousand dollars. Again, maybe I can’t quite afford that yet, but I can get ready to be that person who is, and make the dream ever so slightly more tangible. By the way, when I say “rich in”, I mean that there are usually a few real possibilities in any given week; maybe half a dozen, maybe only two. <\/p>\n
Reason number three. The SLC metro is also large enough to support … well for now I’ll just say … <\/p>\n
the availability of therapeutic modalities for touch starvation. <\/p>\n
Which is a condition I am quite evidently suffering from. The evidence is piling up beyond my attempts to ignore it. <\/p>\n
It is the reason why I’ve been unable to even look at the damn phones for many days now. <\/p>\n
Unable to even listen to the sympathetic clucking of various well-meaning AI tools.<\/p>\n
This third reason is the most pressing.<\/p>\n
It has to be addressed with something resembling urgent dispatch.<\/p>\n
Even if meeting the need means going into further debt for odious motel rooms, and many four dollar gallons of gas. <\/p>\n
In the meantime, there’s lots of other shit that needs to concern me whether I like it or not. <\/p>\n
The upcoming birthday means seven kinds of paperwork, also fairly urgent stuff, like the expiry of my driver’s license after twenty years. <\/p>\n
Even more fundamentally: given my condition, I can’t keep telling myself that I can actually afford to live on scraps anymore. I wish I still could. I can’t. <\/p>\n
So I have another kind of paperwork to engage with, and it involves getting serious and setting up a realistic form or forms of creative monetization. The Patreon in particular has been very good practice for that, and while I remain eternally grateful for it and for you, I have to get real with myself. It’s not enough, given the current state of my health.<\/p>\n
This means: I have all kinds of work to do. <\/p>\n
Also, that I can’t afford to mope around and let my condition be an excuse for why I’m not doing it. <\/p>\n
Also, that the piled up voice mails and text messages will be at least acknowledged very soon. Thanks for your patience. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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