A new day. A new chance to succeed.

After a break-neck day of juggling pots and pans, food and family, I'm thankful for a return of semi-normality.

At least until the next command performance in December.

The house feels quieter after the hubbub. I feel calmer, looking ahead to a day of leftovers and quiet contemplation.

Also a good book and some time to catch up with myself.

I hope your day-after (if you celebrate) is a good one for you #today

FINAL UPDATE: I am moved in and getting settled, thank you all for your help, I'll unpin this from my page now, and scroll down to see a photograph of me in my new place, grinning like a doofus.

UPDATE 8/28/2025 - A dear friend has topped me up over my funding goals, so I'll be unpinning this shortly. I want to post pictures after moving day so folks can see the new digs (tastefully presented), so I'm keeping the post pinned so I can find it later when I do. THANK YOU so much everyone for boosting and helping. If you came here with money in your pocket, I'd love it if you send that money to someone else on the mutual aid hashtag, to one of the asks I've boosted or to a family suffering the genocide in Palestine. Thank you again, so much. I'm looking forward to this next chapter of my life, with added adequate housing. :)

Reluctant fundraising/begpost here, mutual aid if you will.

Those of you following along remember in March of this year I was kicked out of my mother's house after an increasingly tense environment broke down. I spent two weeks in the homeless shelter, and then with help from a street outreach team managed to get into a rooming house. Now, with the help of my housing worker, I'm moving into a bachelor apartment where I will have my own kitchen and bathroom, must-haves for my mental health and well-being.

The lease is signed, the damage deposit is paid and the rent is covered, but unfortunately I have nothing leftover for moving, furnishing the new home, utilities hook-up, bathroom and kitchen essentials, and some food staples to get me comfortably to October and beyond.

So many of you helped me out when I was scared and uncertain, and I hope I can get one last push into the stable housing I know I need to heal and grow. If you aren't able to help now, my gratitude is eternal, I understand, and there are a lot of folks in far worse circumstances than I am out there.

But if you're able to kick over some change toward my goal of $1,000, it would help me start things off right in the new place, and take off a whole load of worries.

I'm on paypal or etransfer at [email protected] and anything helps.

$1000.00!!!/$1000.00 - Thank You!!!

I've got the bandwidth this time to track what folks send me, so I'll close this when I reach the goal, or when I've moved in successfully, whichever comes first.

Thank you so much in advance, please boost if you can.

UPDATE: I'm almost halfway to my goal, thank you SO MUCH to everyone who's helped so far. I'll be able to cover the major bills and hook-up fees. Reaching my goal now will mean I can find a good bed to sleep in and a good chair to sit in at the new place. Please keep boosting if you can, thanks bunches!

UPDATE 2: Thanks to some donations yesterday and overnight, I'm SO CLOSE to my goal. Thank you so much, folks. This will make a huge difference in making the new place feel like a home. I now have enough to cover the major chunks (especially a bed of some kind!), so this last stretch will give me some padding in case there are moving-day emergencies (no! never happens! lol). Thank you emphatically to all who've been boosting and donating.

#begpost #mutualaid #housing

A new day. A new chance to succeed.

I feel foggy this morning but it should clear as the day burns it away.

Some mornings are like that. A little scattered. Slow to wake. The kitchen light bright enough to find my way to the coffee pot but not to show me the way.

Dawn soon. I have time.

Time to feel my way through the possibilities I might shape from this morning fog. A new idea to play with, to let sink in before the day consumes it.

May your fog clear enough to show you the way #today

@hannu_ikonen @RosePuckey @Geri @HarriettMB @fkamiah17 Weighing in from the US, but as a man in my 50s I grew up with "retard" being a relatively friendly insult among friends.

It took years before I thought about it and purged that word from my vocabulary.

The power of language isn't obvious if one doesn't think about what lies underneath.

I have a ticket to nine inch nails in Berlin on July 1 and I don’t think I can attend, personal reasons. Fairly good seating, I paid 94€, but I’m willing to sell it for 60€ or best offer. Anyone interested? Please reboost

Edit: thanks a lot, it found a new owner