Piping progresses again, at least in theory. These days I'm learning to play a few tunes with the drones removed & the stocks stoppered.

Meanwhile another area of life seems to have taken one of those proverbial turn for the worse. I, Mr. Frugal, have in the past few years accumulated an unexpectedly large debt--thinking an upcoming business move would soon yield the cash to pay it all off. Wrong! Now I can see that this was an incredible screwup--something shameful, I confess. It would be different if someone else had done this, but for me it's an embarrassing failure, & damned depressing. Now not only my plans for the end of this month are gone, but there's no telling how long I'll be living under this cloud. It sucks, big-time.

This is deficit spending--and, unlike Congress, I can't tax other people to pay for it.