Congratulations. One of my brood is on the agenting side and reps MG and YA. It’s a thriving market. You even see a lot of adult fiction authors moving into the young readers categories. I read a very good book about a service dog, written for the younger market (she actually put out two versions, one general, one Christian/inspirational) that was published through a POD service and was certainly as good as many books I’ve seen coming from trad publishers.
I have less free time than ever. COVID has stripped my kids of all 12 out-of-house weekday activity hours per week so my wife has very much stepped up and added pre-K teacher and exercise coach to her resume.
Of my two daily weekday hours not dedicated to work or parenting/housework (a 45 minute reduction from normal times), one (6am-7am) is spent exercising/showering before everyone wakes up, and the other (9pm-10pm) is spent on the couch, half-working or fixing resumes of friends and family, half-Netflixing.
Pre-COVID, that additional 45 minutes would have been spent playing piano or reading.
I have increased my time-on-toilet recently following acquisition of some hot peppers from a friend, so that’s my phone time.
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Thank you, it’s exciting stuff. I’ve come into contact with some indie authors who are doing very well for themselves and most of them are very professional. They hire two or three editors for each book and go through all the same steps as a traditional publishing house. Yes, many of them are very good.
I went pretty elaborate on the septic system here. A hybrid aerobic treatment unit and chamber system. So basically a double treatment on the waste but with good reason, as I eventually plan some stuff about directly down hill from the house. The main difficulty with anything I plan to do here pretty much comes down to the fact that I am on the side of a mountain ridge. 
But nothing insurmountable.
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As I mentioned in the OP, I purchased Jersey Giant chicks. I had to go through a local area hatchery, rather than my normal hatchery I patronize, as that hatchery is one of the ones sold out due to panic buying.
I don’t think it was mentioned in the above linked article, but was at the original New York Times article which is behind a pay wall. People are being ******* stupid about it. For example, wondering why their baby chicks died in a couple of days. Find out the morons didn’t have an incubator. Baby chicks cannot regulate their temperature and must have an incubator until their first set of feathers come in.
You would think people might actually LEARN about raising chickens before placing that order.
Idiots.
I’ve been busy refighting the Civil War on my laptop thanks to Ultimate General : Civil War.
And having a lot more sex than usual. Can I say that here?
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I’ve been making some rough plans for a new application at work for some time that will be a new database system that will replace 3 existing separate systems with one integrated system which should improve efficiency of our HR Specialists. It will integrate our departmental employee change request (a work order system), employee employment document generation, staffing for new hires and board reporting into one system with workflows and email notifications.
I’ve been doing some napkin level system design and performance mostly in my head and just making notes on a vision. The last couple of weeks teleworking means I’ve had the time to start roughing out tables and functionality as proof of concept.
I’ve actually been working harder and longer than if I was in the office. 
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Envy is as ugly emotion, boomer. 
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In an effort to social distance and avoid cabin fever, I took the fam to a fishing spot I haven’t been to in 20 years. My son caught 1 very small brown trout. We spent the rest of the day taking in God’s glory. Back to work on Monday, but I appreciate being pushed out of our comfort zone to visit my old stomping grounds for the weekend.
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He was Navy…what did you expect??
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Just been working from home, the demo crew is here today to start the Master Bath remodel. May make for an interesting conference call in a few hours…lol
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It’s been slow at work and have been taking half days…So I’ve been hitting my woodworking shop more…weather permitting. Unfortunately my shop doubles as my deck…lol. I don’t have an indoor shop. Right now I’m working on a curly maple sideboard/console table for someone.
More time for me to play with electricity, water, and metal.
My friend says she’s making good use of this time by masturbating more.
I am so jealous of everyone with all this free time. Myself and my team can work remotely so its full 8-10 hours days for me.
Reading some books which i used to do a lot but not as much in recent years.
Couple of Grisham books, one Patterson book in past week.
Oh yeah have started reading Triggered. 
Have been something of a not very social homebody most of my life.
Am waiting to find out about possible furlough or let go. Not sure what the results will be.
Wondering if maybe staying home awhile & selling my car if some money might be saved—no insurance, gas, maintenance and repair costs.
Hopefully one of us will still be working, the other conducting other than in person searches.
Sorry Gooddad, it’s a good topic but am in bad spirits right now. As to activities that can mire be enjoyed right now, have gotten in some walks and birdwatching, will be finishing up my first paint by numbers project soon.
Well ■■■■■ It seems that I have a mild case of covid 19 virus but they won’t test me because I can breathe and my fever only comes in flashes that last five or ten minutes. I also have extreme dizziness and fatigue causing me to require rest from even simple activities. I haven’t coughed for days and I think that is a direct result of mucous thickening in my lungs and being unable to be coughed up, which is something that normally happens to me about every morning until this. That has devastating effects on people with the worst cases of the virus, so far I am lucky. Headaches too, though not severe. A friend in Texas has the exact same symptoms and has tested positive, confirmed, not hearsay. Why am I posting this here in this thread? Because now I have at least two weeks on my hands of self quarantine.
I have begun studying top children’s book authors in relation to my own children’s book which I mentioned earlier in the thread. On my website I am going to offer classic children’s books alongside my own as a retail online bookstore. I will get the books wholesale directly from printers but will never have to touch a single one of them or ship them or even take orders, it will all be automated. I have no idea if it will work, but I kind of need the bookstore anyhow for reasons a bit too involved to go into here, so I might as well try to make something out of it.
Hopefully I can stock it over the next two weeks, but that’s a pretty big task. Choosing books, listing them, pricing them, writing descriptions or what have you and more. But…….being a “classic” children’s books store, I have chosen about 70 authors only for initial launch. That is of course hundreds of books as many of them were/are very prolific, but hey, I’ve gotta have something worthwhile at least, even in the beginning. My book series will of course be listed first, and I’ll sure be in good company!
Make sure you get plenty of Vitamin C, try to get as much solar exposure as possible if you have a yard and if you can get your hands on some zinc supplement, take it. If you can’t get much sun, than drink plenty of milk. Do that and you should be fine.
