Since it seems we’re all giving up face-to-face interaction for Lent, I thought I’d do something I’ve been considering for a while, and start a personal journal.
As of last night, New Zealand is at level 4 of a 4-level alert system for COVID-19, and practically the whole country is shut down except for essential businesses. This doesn’t include construction or manufacturing building products, which is what the company I work for does, so over the next few days we will be winding things down in preparation for at least a month of no business happening.
We’ve always said that if there weren’t any users, the systes would run perfectly. I suppose we’ll find out.
My wife is in a high-risk category (she has an autoimmune disease and is on immunosuppressors), so I’ve been working from home since last week. That means, with no commute, that I have time to exercise, so I’m feeling fitter than I have for years. I’ll need to figure out a way to keep it going once I go back to commuting, which I still assume will happen sooner or later.
We’re meant to be on special leave from Monday, though we’ll be helping the accountants with month end as usual. Not my turn to do month end, but I’m the senior guy, so I need to be on hand, even if it’s just having the phone nearby.
So I’ll have more time to write. I’m finishing up revision on Underground War, the second in the Realm Agents series, and I have the third book partly drafted.
OK, time to get ready for work, such as it is. More later or tomorrow.
Mike Reeves-McMillan lives in Auckland, New Zealand, the setting of his Auckland Allies contemporary urban fantasy series; and also in his head, where the weather is more reliable, and there are a lot more wizards. He also writes the Gryphon Clerks series (steampunk/magepunk), the Hand of the Trickster series (sword-and-sorcery heist capers), and short stories which have appeared in venues such as Compelling Science Fiction and Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores.
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