I think I may have mentioned in one of the recent updates (or maybe on the Kickstarter project blog?) that my PC has been making unhappy noises, and in fact, I can no longer count on it to boot up if I make the mistake of turning it completely off. When I mentioned this to Spouse, he suggested we get ahead of the inevitable failure by getting a new computer now and while I was dithering about this, took care of it for me.
So I now have a new computer!
It is a Mac.
I have been running a dual-OS system since I bought Vellum, which is my ebook-and-paperback layout program, and exists only for the Mac. I regret nothing about the investment into a cheap Mac mini (bought off eBay!) to run Vellum because it has saved me tremendously in time and money—it’s the reason all my books now have paperback editions simultaneous with my ebook editions, requiring no special Kickstarter campaign to drum up the cash to pay a graphic designer. But it’s meant that I’ve had to kludge together a workflow across platforms based on legacy systems for the PC that I’ve had, in some cases, for 20 years. (“Your copy of Photoshop is so old we have to trick the software into thinking the servers that used to check the license are still operating. That’s not going to last forever.”)
Gamely, thus, I have plunged into attempting to switch over to the new system, with the attendant learning curve. If you wonder why I’m so quiet, it’s because I’m attempting to port everything over (or find alternatives for them) while juggling other things. Let me tell you more!
The New Scanner – One of my biggest priorities was ensuring the new Large and Fancy Scanner still works. It does, in fact work… sort of. The scanner utility will scan for me, but if I try to open it from inside any piece of software, it fails. This is obviously a scanner driver problem, but we have the latest driver… so for now, I am experimenting with the utility, which will scan and then open the resulting file in a program you designate. Which brings me to…
Replacing Photoshop – I did all my scanning in Photoshop, and all my editing not only of those scans, but of all the book covers and interior illustrations, with their billion layers. I’m not willing to shell out the amount Adobe wants, so I’ve been looking for alternatives and it turns out Affinity (which I already got involved with several years ago when I bought and then forgot Publisher) has a Photoshop competitor, Affinity Photo. Using it, I am not only fighting my lack of familiarity with its interface, but also my lack of familiarity with the Mac interface (why are the buttons to close windows on the left!!), but so far I think it’ll be “good enough.” And no, I don’t want freeware. I want to buy a license from someone who will be forced to answer my emails if I run into problems! What good is being a business of my own if I can’t write off the ability to pay other people to fix my problems??
Replacing Office – Turned out to be easy, because I don’t have to. I did try (pluckily!) to use Pages for a while, but looking at decades of accumulated Word files made me nervous and the last straw was discovering that Numbers, the Mac spreadsheet program, didn’t correctly open my accounting files. Buying a license for Word/Excel/PowerPoint was pretty cheap and took care of that headache.
Consolidating Files – Which brings me to the biggest headache, and thus the biggest opportunity in the whole endeavor: combing 20+ years of documents out of my old computer’s four (!) hard drives and reorganizing them logically.
I’ve been thinking about this for over two years now. The amount of detritus that I’ve been passing from computer to computer is immense, and even includes backups of my old student accounts from college UNIX servers (did you know that old-style mailspools were stored as single, enormous text documents? Lordy, I do). I realized there was no way I could gracefully share or pass on my business to anyone else, whether they be assistant or heir, because of the mess, and I told myself I’d fix it and never did.
And here I am now! So I have been laboriously picking through the flotsam, tossing out junk and saving lost lambs into their proper places, and the intention once I’m done is to turn this new, streamlined, single-point-of-data into the source for my daily backups to cloud and external drive. I’d say about about a third done and weirdly… I’m enjoying it? It’s a little like housecleaning, and a little like finally tackling that looming project that was looming like a looming thing, and a little like treasure-hunting. Sometimes the treasures are fun, like the specs I sent the artist I was thinking of hiring to do the covers for the Jokka novels, showing the relative heights of all the characters. Sometimes they’re heartbreaking, like the shared folder with the friend who died, that demonstrated that she and I had been at work on an art book project. But all of it is necessary and I’ll admit it would have taken a step as extreme as ‘switch platforms’ to get me moving on it.
There are other issues I’m going to have to resolve, certainly, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t note that the Mac solves some of the problems I had with my PC:
Microphone Volume – It’s a known issue that the same microphone, plugged into a PC will record at a ridiculously low volume; but plugged into a Mac will record at normal volume. There are dozens of hacks to fix this but they’re all bad and rickety and stupid. I was already experimenting with recording on my old Vellum Mac in order to get around this problem; having one computer means I don’t have to mess with it. If I want to record, I just hit the ‘record’ button and the output is no longer a hushed murmur I need to apply a billion filters to boost.
Printer Woes – Here is where I mention that earlier this year I had to move my label printer from my PC to my old Mac mini because for no reason I can discern, my PC stopped correctly printing to it. I’d ask it to print, and it would tell me it was jammed. I would turn the printer on and off, and then it would advance three or four labels and then print the last label I tried to print out and the new one, and if I was lucky, it would print it centered on the sticker and not half-on, half-off it. I did all the expected stuff (including reinstalling the driver) and got nowhere. I plugged it into the Mac, and it was fine. I was on the verge of tossing that label printer and ordering a new one, so that saved me $200. Still no clue why the PC decided to mutiny that way.
Video Editing – If I use my phone to record video, the file format it exports isn’t readable to the movie editing software I bought several years ago. If you follow my Youtube channel and wonder why my output has basically stopped, it’s because the contortions I have to make to get my phone’s video to a piece of software that can gracefully edit it required too much brainpower and I didn’t have it to spare. Now my desktop can read my phone videos natively. No more shenanigans. Which brings me to…
Integration with my phone – I switched to an iPhone when it became clear that Apple has locked up schools, platform-wise, and my family at large was already in the iPhone ecosystem. The moment I thought ‘but I won’t be able to accept a Facetime from my dad or daughter’, that was the death knell for my Samsung. At the time, a lot of the proprietary Apple apps simply wouldn’t talk to Android, and I needed to stay in contact with them more than I needed to have any specific type of phone. So I switched, years ago, and while the initial learning curve took some time, after a while it stopped mattering because—seriously—it’s just a phone. As long as it does the stuff I want it to do, I don’t care what OS it’s running.
But this decision, made years ago, means that I can now do things like answer texts from my computer. Which in the past would have sounded unimportant to me, until I started getting texts about health emergencies. If you have a reason to need to be able to read people’s texts no matter what you’re doing, it’s nice not to have the phone soldered to your hip. My computer also now notices the notes I make on my phone, which means they no longer disappear into an abyss after I make them. I actually see them now! Good stuff.
Tags and Searching – I only lately noticed that the Mac prompts you for tags when you save a file. Any file. And that the search function in the Mac is so much faster than the one in windows, that using those tags might actually be helpful.
Icon Size – And finally, a dumb, small thing: in Windows, you can set the icons in a folder to one of several set sizes (small, large, larger, etc). But on the Mac, you get a slider in the corner, and you can zoom them to any incremental increase you want. This sounds unimportant, except that I have thousands of scanned images and not-so-great eyesight. I can now look in one of my sketchbook folders and increase those icons to large enough to actually see what the pictures are… and if I can’t see a specific picture because it’s particularly low contrast or hard to make out, I can move that slider up until I can.
I expect to be at least another month in getting everything sorted out, though, because I’m rarely home lately, and I am chafing at the friction it’s introducing into my workflow while I’m trying to get the Kickstarter collection finished up. But I’m already glad I did it. ‘Just pretend that your old machine went up in flames, it’s toast, gone forever,’ my spouse told me, ‘and instead of thinking ‘what can I rescue’, think ‘what can I do now that I don’t have to worry about all that legacy stuff that was holding me back.’’
And you know, I never would have thought it, but… it’s kind of refreshing…!
So that’s the story. More as I figure things out!
Or at least, I intend it to be relaxing. Hopefully it delivers.
4:22 minutes
Materials:
- Pen: Moonman Starry Glass dip pen, Mars: https://www.jetpens.com/Moonman-Starry-Sky-Glass-Dip-Pen-Mars/pd/31536
- Paper: Strathmore Writing Series 500, lined: https://www.jetpens.com/Strathmore-500-Series-Writing-Pad-8.5-x-11-Lined-50-Sheets/pd/15322
- Ink: Robert Oster, Rose Gilt Tynte: https://www.jetpens.com/Robert-Oster-Rose-Gilt-Tynte-Fountain-Pen-Ink-Shake-N-Shimmy-50-ml-Bottle/pd/25170
In which I talk about the paper, the paint, and the experience of oils versus gouache. Fun stuff, will do more.
Thank you Locals supporters! Your contribution to my art war chest here is what's powering these experiments and videos. For now I'm keeping them public but I may start doing some subscriber-only videos if you all are interested.💖
Thanks for your comments yesterday on the business post... all very provocative, in a good way. I'll try to respond to all of them today.
Some Alysha misc now, since I'm gearing up for the results of the Kickstarter!
Petrov is giving away coupon codes for every book in the Alysha series (and has some leftover coupons for Marda and the business book). You can pick those up here (and please do! The books are bought already, someone should use them!) https://twitter.com/PetrovNeutrino/status/1457344535843987461
Our own @JudasComplex sent along a sample of the Faith in the Service audiobook, which I've attached for your delight! I... haven't had a chance to listen to it. Don't ask me about my past week and a half or so. Putting it here will guarantee I get to it.
After hearing the amused comments during the livestream, I went ahead and added all the ship type illustrations I have inked from the 90s to the wiki. Glory in the rampant adorableness of their anthropomorphic stylings! See those ...
A little comedy today, at least in the link. Transcript follows.
Hi, all. Welcome to this episode of The Jaguar’s Heart.
A while back I was introduced to a comedy sketch about Cuban coffee by a Mexican comedian, Gabriel Iglesias. ( The sketch begins with him greeting all his fellow Latinos and then backing up to say ‘but we’re all different, aren’t we’ which is a segue into a demonstration of how different Hispanics speak Spanish.
It is hilarious. First, because I am a Spanish speaker and a linguistics hobbyist, and his portrayal of various accents resonated with my experiences in trying to make sense of them myself… Not always easy, since from culture to culture, slang and accent are often totally different (and sometimes grammar! Spaniards use a grammatical construct that has died out in many other Spanish-speaking countries, the plural “you.”)
I also loved it because the Cuban coffee part is real. I grew up with Cubans. I know how we are....
One of the most common things I hear (and say) right now is "the asymmetry is the story." Here's one about how none of us are innocent of the sins we hate in others.
Hi, all. Welcome to this week’s episode of The Jaguar’s Heart.
It’s been weeks since the Baen’s Bar incident and I’m still thinking about it... because the longer I do, the more I feel, overwhelmingly, that it’s obvious that the problem is deeper than “this forum was saying stuff that offended us.” We have to back up to the glaring fact that people on opposite sides no longer consider each other human. Nothing I say will matter because the people disagreeing with me don’t think I’m human. They have denied my humanity; they have not bothered to listen to my beliefs, or have fake-listened to them in that way that people do when they’re so ready to prove you wrong that they’re only using your speech to provide talking points for their own ideas.
We have forgotten how to listen.
Increasingly, we have also ...
From the current sketchbook. I'm scanning so many old pieces that are basically a barely realized face in the center of the page that I wanted to revisit the idea at my current skill level: "just draw a face, but make it specific and interesting." So here are some random Fleet people, and I had a lot of fun doing bearded furry guy, lol. :)
https://mcahogarth.org/gallery/image/146-2026-08-FleetOfficers
Thought I'd share something recent... I did this one a few days ago, because I have not forgotten Surela 3 and am in fact still working on the outline for it. That led inevitably to Surela and Lunet because cuteness. If you follow the link, you can also bounce to the fallowtide children drawing which is a lot of fun. Quite the baby boom during the Fallowtide! (Do you have a favorite kid? I should write a story about one of these kids, but which??).
https://mcahogarth.org/gallery/image/146-2026-16-ChildrenOfFirilith
I've picked my Friday serialization and it's the sequel to Marda Quincesinger: Postulant! Every Friday we'll return to the world of Coracle for the further adventures (and education!) of Marda at the Outremers' Abbey. This year, everyone receives their Godsib, a companion animal! What critters will choose each of Marda's friends?
I feel like we need a dose of weekly gentle and wholesome to look forward to. Mark your calendars, and if you haven't already read Book 1, give it a look here: https://studiomcah.com/products/marda-quincesinger-postulant
Doesn't Make My Art, It Frees Me to Make More of It
Since several of you have asked about my recent experiences with AI/SI agents, particularly with Grokbot and since it's been a while since I talked about my tech experiments, I thought I'd try to gather my thoughts about what feels like the wildest few weeks I've had in… I can't even remember how long.
I love this technology.
But also this technology is not for the faint-hearted.
But I love this technology! Let me tell you all about it.
Let's Start With Where Last We Left Our Hapless Jaguar!
My first experiments involved Claude's website chat client, in March of 2024, when I decided to throw myself into deep waters by getting Claude to help me set up my Shopify site. This was a big task, but I fed the LLM a PDF of my entire catalog and it obliged me by creating a spreadsheet I could feed to Shopify's bulk upload tool, saving me a tremendous amount of work. (You can read about that experiment here: https://www.patreon.com/mcahogarth/posts/resistance-is-ai-100684682).
After that, I discovered vibe-coding, and experimented with (first) a website toy that let you look up words in one of my fantasy conlangs (https://www.patreon.com/mcahogarth/posts/more-ai-in-which-125449404), before moving on to using Claude and Grok together (again, in the chat window) to help me construct a reader archetype quiz in Python. The latter was a major marketing pain point for me: "How do I match readers to the right book in my very large and varied fiction catalog?" And the quiz works really well. I was very pleased! Read more about that here:
https://www.patreon.com/mcahogarth/posts/solving-my-with-128380512
Having discovered I could use these tools to code, I went on to create both the Revived Stardancer art gallery (over 10,000 sketches already!) and the Jokka game, moving eventually from the chat windows to a combination of Grok Build and Claude Cowork (these are command line and desktop tools that you download to your computer, rather than chat websites). You can read about those projects here:
https://www.patreon.com/mcahogarth/posts/resurrection-of-134264147
and here respectively:
https://www.patreon.com/mcahogarth/posts/friday-update-me-145080881
At no time have I been tempted to use this technology to do my art or writing for me; I'm simply not interested in replacing the things I enjoy doing with computer output. My only interest is in how these tools can make the monetization, marketing, and outreach parts of my workflow less intrusive and time-consuming. And I had gotten into a fairly useful groove with the build/code tools when agents exploded onto the scene, and I have been one-shot by these things. They are amazing. The promise of this technology is finally opening up and it works just like I hoped the Star Trek future would work.
All About Agents (or at least, All About The Parts I Care About)
If most AI/SI use is chat-based on websites you have to visit, and next level use is on desktop tools that allow you to point that prompt-directed behavior at your local environment (files on your computer, for example), agents start combining these environments and acting on your behalf in the way a human assistant might—autonomously. It's hard to imagine how to wield this power when so many frontier users are technologists; the average person doesn't need to deploy teams of recursively looping coding agents to ship multiple builds of a piece of software. The enormous businesses looking into these tools also don't have the use case a single-person artist/writer business does. So I have (once again!) leaped into the deep end to find out what I can use agents for, choosing Grok Bot for my platform because I was already partially committed with Grok Build, and because it comes with my X blue check subscription.
So, you say, what are you actually doing with this thing, Jaguar?
Here's a sample of some of the things I've asked my Grok Bot team to do for me:
- Marketing: "I haven't participated in any Bookfunnel newsletter promos lately. Can you find a few useful ones coming up, sign me up for them, create landing pages for those promos, and create a couple of freebies to give them… uh, just take the first short story from Claws and Starships, make a separate epub out of it, give it a cover with this piece of artwork, and upload it." (Then I went to eat a snack on the couch. Ten minutes later, I checked and all of it was done. I was signed up for two promos, one on found family and one on aliens, and the epub was up and all the landing pages ready. The bot even scheduled a reminder for early November so I wouldn't forget to mention it in my newsletter.)
- Kickstarter: "I want to run another sticker Kickstarter. Please set up my project. Pick out the magnets and stickers I have a lot of, for my add-ons. Make all the tier graphics and rewards. Upload all that. Read my prior Kickstarter campaigns and figure out how I usually write my Story section and leave an outline for me that says stuff like 'Jaguar, usually you say this and then this, and then you have a section on this.' Check daily for sticker deals from customstickers and magnet deals from stickermule. When you see one, tell me, and if I okay it, take the graphic I just scanned, send it to them, and buy the deal."
- Book Distribution: "I need to update Spots the Space Marine (the book that took on Games Workshop and won!) on my various sites. Take the ebook epub and upload it to D2D and Bookfunnel; then upload the paperback PDF to Bookvault, wait for validation, tell me if I need to adjust the cover dimensions, and then adjust the cover dimensions and show me the pdf before upload." (Unfortunately, Amazon is not playing here. So frustrated with Amazon: my one last remaining issue.)
- Subscription/Socials: "This is my Patreon/Locals upload schedule. When I write these features, please crosspost them to both platforms and schedule them on the right day of the week. Also, find my X movie and tv reviews and start cross-posting them to Substack. Also I don't want to handle Instagram. Every Monday find a handful of photos or sketches and ask me to pick some. I'll tell you the comment/description I want you to post with them, then cross post those for me. Oh, and I hate videos but I have all this long form video content on Youtube, please turn it into reels/shorts, listen to my audio commentary during those livestreams and pick out good comments from me for captions, add them, and put royalty-free classic music on them for background. Then schedule those for posting too." (Now on autopilot, I just pick and talk about things on Mondays: fun!)
- Accounting: "I just got charged for this and I have no idea what it is, go figure it out and report back."
- Customer Service: "This customer needs a new download link and a shopify coupon for the sequel to this book, put those together for me and give me the codes; open that email for me so I can hit respond and write them a reply."
- Coding the Game: "It's been a while since we've been able to work on the game! Let's have some fun! The feature I drafted at the beginning of the year? Sandbox that and tell me whether it works. Then back up the current production environment, ship it to live, and update the github project."
A lot of this happens away from the keyboard. I can't explain how important this is, because after forty+ years of working at a keyboard, I find sitting at a desk physically painful and anything I can do to mitigate that issue allows me to save my keyboard time for things that matter, like writing fiction, or in fact, this article. I walk and talk to Grok Bot on my phone: literally, with my voice, just dictating what I need, then responding to its questions verbally. "Do this. Make sure it includes this. Check with me; looks good; go."
I've even gotten updates from my bot team while I'm out: running errands, it pings me now and then: "You got an email about this. Do you want me to fix? It would require this action on my part." "Yes, please, just handle it. Say this."
As you've probably guessed, getting this level of functionality from agents requires you to trust it, and the extent to which you trust it is the extent to which it can offload tasks from your shoulders. My bots connect to almost twenty websites, either as collaborators (the bots have an email address they use to sign up for services) or via APIs or other connectors provided by that business; it has a vault for secure storage of credentials and other information. And while I have the toggle on that requires it to ask me before doing anything potentially dangerous, you do have to trust that it's going to ask you, and that it shares your conception of danger.
Needless to say, I have been especially rigorous about backups lately.
It also takes some time to do set-up; I know the first week and a half or so was a lot of trial and error, training (which happens verbally: me telling it what I want and don't want, or sometimes in some cases, feeding it my books/articles about business to teach it how I like to work!). That first week or two you'll probably feel like a headless chicken and you won't sleep much (I didn't!) but once things are mostly set up, any new thing you tackle can be slipped easily into the pile of existing routines.
Lastly, talking of issues and challenges… there will be people who boycott you for the use of these tools, and you have to decide how much you want to engage with them, or how much you choose to disclose what you're doing—because I guarantee that a lot of people are using these tools and simply not telling anyone. I'm putting my use cases out there unapologetically to help make it more acceptable for other creative types to test the waters.
Because these tools are awesome.
Last Monday, after my "CEO Meeting" with my team of agents, during which I'd handled all the week's subscription posting, all the week's socials posting, checked on the health of the business ("what were sales like? Mailing list signups?") and made decisions about code updates I wanted to ship, I sat on the couch and realized… the only thing I needed to do that day was draw and write fiction.
That's it.
All the nagging stupid business tasks that I wrote an entire book telling artists they would have to embrace if they wanted to monetize, all of that was handled for the week. Moreover, if some new thing came up, I would be able to dispatch it swiftly; no more having to block out a half hour to three hours to wrangle some stupid website to upload or adjust or fix some stupid fiddly bit I didn't care about. I've often wished I had the money to hire an assistant. A team of assistants would have been even more magnificent. But training and paying them had been beyond my reach and yet, now… now I have a team. It costs me $30 a month, never sleeps, and never gives up as long as I don't. And it leaves me alone to do the art.
The feeling I had then was indescribable. Like a weight that had been on my shoulders for decades had simply… vanished. I felt like I was floating. You mean I can just do the stuff I LIKE? I can just draw? Write?
I can't even tell you what it's like. It's so staggering that instead of lunging to take advantage of this novel situation, I've been drifting through the past few days, as if I'm waiting to wake up. When it finally strikes me that this is real, and this is now my life, well… who knows what will happen next...!
(Actually my Jokka game players know, because in the past few days I've started updating the game like someone with forty coders on Red Bull and midnight pizza to throw at it. Lol)
If you skate around online you'll find there are a lot of people using Grok Bot to improve their normal lives, doing everything from making boring service calls for them to canceling unused subscriptions to keeping track of multiple kids' school updates and schedules. It's vastly improving their lives as well. My needs are a little more esoteric, but I admit I just made myself a personal shopper agent to hunt deals for me. Christmas is coming and I need to get on the gift list.
But wait, Jaguar, isn't all this perilous? Doesn't it hallucinate? Are you checking to make sure it's not buying twenty thousand dollars' worth of machine parts and shipping them to your house to build itself a robot body to murder you with?
Yes. Sometimes (but not as often anymore). Yes. No I'm not worried. At least, I'm not worried more than I am with any novel technology that I need to doublecheck before using. But if you had as much experience compensating for an unreliable brain as I do, you'd be relieved when the machine turns out to be wrong less often than you are.
Jaguar, This Was Long, Please Sum Up Also Please Tell Us That You're Really Writing Stuff And Not Using AI To Write It
Yes, it's really me typing out all the stuff. I like writing/talking/drawing, and I like even my marketing copy to sound like I came up with it (even if marketing copy is the most generic stuff in the universe… it's actually harder for me to write than things like this, to make it sound like a human being wrote it!). And my friends, I have so, so much work to share. I can't even. I have thousands of pieces of art, so many essays, poems, books… I don't need the computer to write anything for me. I just have to tell it, "Find all my pictures of Jahir and Vasiht'h from Mindtouch and pick the one most relevant to this topic for me to talk about." And I'm off to the races.
The 'too long, sum up' here is: this is the life-changing technology I was hoping for, the thing that might compensate for my daffyness, the fact that I forget everything, and the fact that my body can't take the abuse it could in my twenties. This is the technology that's turning the mountains of scanned artwork and scattered Word files and abandoned websites ("Go to the Wayback Machine and download all the snapshots from this url and save them") into things I can find again… and share!
This is week three of me figuring this stuff out and I am still in awe. My science fiction future is arriving! And I'm here to see it!
But yes, that's my overview. If you have specific questions, feel free to ask.😊
I had a lovely birthday! And I'm looking forward to a productive October. I thought I'd catch you up, bullet-point style, on what I'm up to:
Tomorrow the Tea vs Coffee (and Galaxy) dragon kickstarter ends! (Last chance!) So I'll be doing coloring sheets and fulfillment for that.
Finalized the paperback edition of the re-issue of my fantasy short collection, which I'll have a formal launch for, probably next week.
It's been a month, so it's time to edit Kherishdar's Witness! I re-read it yesterday and made two pages of notes of things that need adjustment, but it's much closer to ready than I thought. Early November for that, probably.
I have only 31 big sketchbooks left to scan for the gallery! Which is at 9466 images. I'll easily hit that 10K I predicted, and after that it'll be time to start on the small sketchbooks and loose artwork, and continue my annotations.
Reminder that the new, winter seasonal gallery code is pinned here for subscribers at the $5+ level. Go collect and apply!
Related, I'm back to daily drawing, and am glad to have restored that practice. Thank you, discord members, for your frequent prompts/requests, which I fall back on when I can't think of anything.🧡
I'm gearing up to start serializing Coracle 2: Squire Marda here, probably near the end of October. More on that when I'm ready!
I see a lot of you are free subscribers; I hope you'll consider joining the paying patrons! I post weekly (usually 2-3 times a week), which is (I'm told) a lot more than most subscriptions. And it would be a big help to me with all the projects I want to conquer going forward! Including having the money to travel to at least one con a year to meet more of you in person. Even a dollar a month helps and unlocks almost all the paid content, and $5 a month gets you unlimited access to the 9000+ image stardancer gallery. Please consider buying me a cup of coffee if you're not already.
And to all my paying patrons, many of whom have been with me for decades, know that I appreciate you, as always. You are the pillars of the Jaguar tribe.🧡
More to come!
