I need $1800 or better in donations for the end of the month to pay bills coming due. I am planning to get the car inspected and a current registration around the first of September depending on finances. The car has not run since January so I need to put some fuel stabilizer in it and recharge the battery.
I will also be publishing the Xerxes material into book form sometime in September. Sophia Love gave me some good advice on how to self publish. Sophia advised me to get my own ISBN number ($125) so that I am not exclusively tied to Amazon. I am the editor/publisher for the Xerxes book as it is really Denice's work in transcribing Xerxes thoughts on Persia. He spent years trying to get her to take that conversation into written form. It's not what she usually does. This is a promise I made to Denice that I need to finish. Denice prefers to stay in the background given her unique situation. It's also Denice's way of donating to the blog.
I have delayed publishing for two reasons, one was the copyright issues with the images I had, which I can now alleviate with AI created images that fit the descriptions of ancient Persia from Xerxes. The other reason I delayed publishing was the information came during the Biden administration and I didn't want to play into the politics of Iran at that time. We are in a different moment now and I think the book would be helpful to the situation in Iran, to remind them of the wonder that region was long ago contrasted to what it is now.
I plan to publish my own original writing later so this will be good practice on the procedure of it all.
My health is mostly good. I had about 5 days where I was not feeling great, which got really bad Sunday night. I had a head of iceberg lettuce that I bought just as people started getting ill from containmained lettuce. My intuition screamed "don't eat it". I listened and I didn't eat it, but it had gone off in my fridge. Sunday night I decided to slice the produce up so it could go down the garbage disposal more readily. I may not have washed my hands thoroughly enough or perhaps had a contaminated knife and I had some pretty bad stomach cramps that night. Luckily I didn't eat any of it. It passed without too much drama. I mostly lost sleep because of the cramps.
Thank you all for supporting this blog, I love you all dearly! More blog post later today...
Terran
PS: I received an offer for an X money account on X.COM including a $15 deposit. Elon Musk has long wanted to make a payment system with the ideas he was not allowed to implement with PayPal. It looks intriguing and I am putting the QR code for the X money account below if you happen to have one of those accounts. I don't expect many people do yet. I think it will be a better PayPal if it all goes well.