{"id":2706,"date":"2016-02-06T07:51:33","date_gmt":"2016-02-06T12:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=2706"},"modified":"2016-02-06T07:51:33","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T12:51:33","slug":"saturday-6-february-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2016\/02\/06\/saturday-6-february-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday, 6 February 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">07:51 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> We&#8217;re back to doing science kit stuff and getting things organized around here. I&#8217;ll have to devote several hours today or tomorrow to getting my new desktop system set up, so Barbara will probably just shelve books and do other stuff on her list.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">I got a little bit done this week on the prepping front. Here&#8217;s what I managed to do:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">We managed to get about 300 pounds of white sugar, oats, cornmeal, and flour repackaged for long-term storage.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">I read another bunch of PA novels, most of which sucked. Ellisa Barr&#8217;s series, which I mentioned earlier this week, wasn&#8217;t too bad, and Franklin Horton&#8217;s Borrowed World series was actually decent. I read these PA novels mainly for ideas, and it&#8217;s gotten to the point where if I get one decent idea from a book or even a series, I consider it a win.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">I started to outline and write character bios for my own PA novel. I haven&#8217;t done much, but enough that I can see some real possibilities here. Just as a point of reference, Franklin Horton&#8217;s web page mentions that the first volume of his series sold about 2,600 copies on Kindle in its first month. If I can get this book stubbed out, I may talk to Pournelle to see if he&#8217;d be interested in co-authoring it. Jerry&#8217;s already co-authored one PA novel set in the California mountains. Perhaps he&#8217;d like to co-author another set in the Blue Ridge mountains.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">So, what precisely did you do to prepare this week? Tell me about it in the comments.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>07:51 &#8211; We&#8217;re back to doing science kit stuff and getting things organized around here. I&#8217;ll have to devote several hours today or tomorrow to getting my new desktop system set up, so Barbara will probably just shelve books and do other stuff on her list.\n<\/p>\n<p>I got a little bit done this week on the prepping front. Here&#8217;s what I managed to do:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We managed to get about 300 pounds of white sugar,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2016\/02\/06\/saturday-6-february-2016\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Saturday, 6 February 2016 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-weekly-prepping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}