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Or at least makes me feel like I'm making progress of a sort.
September so far:

Jana's dad, Charles, passed away right before Labor Day weekend. I only met him once (at her mom's funeral and memorial) and didn't have a ton of contact with him, but he did get pretty supportive in the last couple of years and I'll miss for her sake. He died at home in his own bed, surrounded by loved ones and with decent medical care and he went when he was ready to go so I think it was a good passing. J seems more disoriented than usual and does occasionally mention him in a way that indicates that she knows he's no longer around. Hopefully, that gets easier soon.
I got to fill out a bunch of paperwork for her examination by the country to determine whether or not she is sufficiently disabled to require assistance. The social worker seemed pretty clear on that, but there is, of course, several month's worth of backlog and one of the more immediately useful things would have been money for adult daycare...which she has already gotten herself kicked out of. She is being...extra right now so I'm hoping it's mostly her dad's passing and not a whole new phase of "extra" because I'm getting worn out.
We're getting a new roof and gutters due to massive hail damage and it will be happening soon, because everything must happen this month.
My new recliner arrives on Thursday. My hip and leg have not stopped screaming for weeks and have responded to absolutely nothing so here's hoping this is a big help.
Have managed to spend some quality time with friends, which has been lovely and pagan pride was fun until we got sort of rained out (just enough to drive people out of the park and require tarping up, not enough to help the drought much). I'm off to table at St. Cloud Pride this weekend so hopefully that goes smoothly.
Saw "Bottoms" and thought it was amusing.
Doing a little tiny bit of writing and working on getting the next Lynes & Mathey title by Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold out by December. Also, working on my talk on LGBTQ+ publishing for Quatrefoil. And dayjobbing like a dayjobbing thing.