Lights in the workshop!

2/29/2020

(Above: Electricity is now flowing within Madre’s workshop.)

Active Summary: Today began with the morningly regimen and was ensued by a hefty bit of work at Madre’s shop. This included: cleaning up some of yesterday’s mess, testing the drains, fastening / wiring the dryer outlet, wiring the dryer / water heater breakers, wiring the main panel box breaker, turning on the electricity/testing all receptacles and switches*, and helping Madre move a few things out of the workshop.

Next, I aided Padre in setting up the new mail box and preparing lunch. Lunch itself was followed by a return to Jacobhouse where I worked on a certain writing task mentioned in the TIL and commentary. After that, I helped out on the farm / checked the beef herd with Padre before again tending to that aforementioned writing task within my abode. Now, having completed that task, I am writing the majority of this entry before heading up to Oldhouse for dinner.

TIL: Today I learned all sorts of information ranging from wiring the main breaker of a panel box to adding functioning endnotes to the end of chapters in the eBook publishing process. Both are a tad too in-depth to explain (with the latter being the far more notorious of the two), so I will instead reveal the concoction with which I deglazed the cast iron skillet earlier after cooking a couple Wagyu burger-steaks. The ingredients consisted of:

• 2/3 Dixie cup of merlot, allowed to reduce for about 30 seconds
• 4 tbsp. sour cream
• 2 tbsp. olive oil
• ¼ tsp. thyme

Commentary: I somehow keep running a tad late at night, but this evening warrants a little additional commentary in the way of highlights. There are three. Firstly, there is the fact that the drain I hooked up last night is not leaking. Secondly, I helped Madre get her workshop’s electricity up and running (and it all went very smoothly!). Thirdly, I have just finished editing, formatting, and publishing my first Ebook. It is presently being reviewed by Kindle Direct Publishing, and will be up for reading within the next 72 hours**. Now that’s an eventful day.

Final Note: Tomorrow I expect to go to the Farm Market and put together my new desk.

*There was one brief point where Madre flicked on a switch and the light did not turn on. I recalled, however, that it was connected to the GFCI outlet just outside the door. On pressing the outlet’s little reset button, I was very relieved to hear Madre say, “Oh, it’s on!”

** KDP forces the Author to place a $2.99 price on books of 70% or greater commission. However, according to what I have read, I will be able to make that book free for 5 days out of every 90 as soon as it is published.

*** I saw a preview of the novella on my Kindle, and it appears that the conversion program- that which converts my .doc file to an eBook format – performed an excellent job. I see only one minor formatting error that I will need to fix.