I'll add my voice to the supporting cast around here. I hope everyone taps the strength needed to stay up and keep digging. My own problems seem comparatively small right now, but I'm going to treat you all like bartenders for a minute or so here anyway.
In terms of my own situation, past couple months business has been slow on top of pressures from property management that have culminated in a lot of lost time and the acute deterioration of a couple projects. Mainly my VW fastback, which underwent some damage during a tow (long story) and will now require replacement of the rear suspension and entire wiring harness, I'm probably going to be out of pocket between $500-750 on that (plus gobs of time), because the manager insisted in writing I have the car removed after giving me a verbal that it was okay and she'd look the other way. This is on top of two sequential months in which I had to essentially spend a week destroying the efficiency of my work space in order to tuck my horde of shit out of sight to pass inspection.
Ultimately, that's my own fault for hanging on to anything that has the potential of being something cool for like 20 years while only just recently starting the process of converting stuff into better stuff.
So there's the background pressure that is ever present, meanwhile the historical lull in the summer months has dried up outgoing sales to the point that I've been grappling with trying to decide which of my dreams I'll be giving up on. It's been hovering on the recording studio side, but that gets complicated since I'm running with the theory that summer play months and the general eroding state of the entire world are going to further undermine the value of some things that I will probably never be in the position to replace if I decide to sell. I'd also sooner pull the plug on the company instead of devalue my output, and it's rough designing shit while the mind's a mess. I've started taking in repair work, which is helping, but not without its own share of minor irritation.
Meanwhile my father in law is about to die (like, today or tomorrow as near as anyone can figure), which puts another load on. There is an upside that we'll be rotating into a rent/mortgage free situation, but just reaching that point is a grim deathmarch, and will be incredibly taxing. I guess that gives me a focal point to work toward, which is what I need, but it'll be a challenge to pull it off without it turning into a series of smoking hole crashes into the side of a mountain.
So anyway, I feel a little better for having unloaded that - thanks
