So... this happened in the middle of July...

Thus throwing the month into a bit of chaos.

This is my cat Jamie, and, unfortunately he somehow (as I didn't see him do it) scratched his cornea, in his right eye. He now has a space helmet so he can commune with the radar mice from the moon. As one might expect, he has required a lot of additional direct time, attention, and care (a lot of extra lap time, in fact he just hopped on my lap as I have been typing this) while he, hopefully, recovers. This situation also borked my sleep, when it looked like he had to go into the vet, I had lost a lot of sleep, before and after the first vet visit.

The good news is he's not in any mortal danger but any problems with vision and eyes can be serious and alarming. Unfortunately his right eye has been a problem that's had him in and out of the vet, for the last 3 years (the issue has been idiopathic, meaning they haven't discovered a cause yet). I never posted about this because I've always wanted my work to stand on it's own, without daily life problems coloring the sharing of this work. That said, shit happens sometimes and 2023 has had a bit more shit happening than usual in my experience.

Additionally the Palladium gig has been ballooning into something even larger than initially anticipated, even by Palladium themselves. This is a good thing, seeing more income will be  coming out of this, but it also ate back into my schedule. Jamie scratching his cornea, was not anticipated though, and that threw everything off. I planned to drop a bunch of new content, in the latter two weeks of July, then Jamie's mishap with his eye happened and the landscape changed. I've barely had time, to even simply write an update, such as this (as that also takes time) so I'm squeezing it in now.

I also stopped printing during the early stages of caring for him for obvious reasons, even with the printing room being isolated (he's not allowed in there) I did not want that going on while getting his initial care underway. Jamie's eye problem pre-dates my getting into 3D printing, so it's not related, however I didn't want to take any chances. So all of this pulled me away from the online space this month unexpectedly (I've barely had time to post much and certainly hadn't time to post for promoting the printing this month, and I had every intention to do so).

Is this to say July has been terrible and awful? Not so much that, just overwhelming with the situation that developed with Jamie. Jamie has a follow-up appointment on the 31st (today now as it's past midnight while I write this), to see how well he's taking to the new eyedrops meds. He's gotten the eye drops and the pain meds as they were prescribed but I honestly don't know, myself, if the eye drops are healing him, the meds apparently are going to take time for that (from what I was told by the vet). This stuff can get expensive, and that's not something to be thrilled about, even when more money's coming in from the Palladium work.

This is not to suggest I'm noting all of this for sympathy, as much as understanding as to why I wasn't active catching back up as planned. It seems things just all happened unexpectedly at once, as often they can. The Palladium work absolutely had to take priority, otherwise, no money for bills, no lights, no power, no printing. I certainly apologize for the schedule falling behind once more, but not for shifting to more freelance to make up for winter wiping out the momentum and extra income here.  Everything I planned and promised was coming is still planned and still coming. As messy as the year has been, I'm not planning to drop producing content here what so ever.

Again my apologies, it has been a bit rough recovering from the printing drought during this winter's absurdly low temperatures. Things were on track to catch up but a few more curve balls landed this month to create another bump in the road. I'm fairly confident the worst of the unexpected delays are now in the rear view but going forward, work will come out as soon as I can get it out. This, end of the month dump (additional posts to follow this one), is not all of it or the end of it. I'll keep working on new stuff, as there's no lack of motivation to do so, only time has been issue of late. At the moment I am only one guy doing this after all.

Thank you all for your support always!

Best!