Well, this was a Summer to remember. The coronavirus pandemic was as high as ever this Summer, leaving us at home for most of it. Towards the ends, however, we did start to at least head to a park during the morning to get out of the house. Still, if we ever got to the park and we saw even one other person playing, we would go find another. I'm sure the kids were super bored.
School started last week. There are lots of precautions and stuff being done, but we still chose the route of blended learning, which is 2 days at school physically and 3 days at-home learning. The at-home learning I think will be basically what we did in the Spring, but we'll see. They're wearing masks all the time except for outside play and eating, but you never know when someone's going to get the virus.
Now that I will have at least a couple of days at home while they're in school, I need to be productive. I literally don't know what I should do or be doing aside from cleaning the house a little and stuff.
I do want to start my cryptid podcast for kids, but I don't know where to begin. Or, rather, am procrastinating on beginning. I imagine I will start with the most popular cryptids like bigfoot and nessie, but then there's the issue of what kind of information to include, how long to make each episode, how "tone" or energy the show will have (energetic and upbeat or more mellow and "scary"), and stuff like that. I know that podcasts are a lot of work, but I am hopeful that if I ever get this going, I think it will be popular because there's really nothing about cryptids for kids. Sure, there are a couple, but they seem quickly made and often talk about other paranormal stuff. There are thousands of cryptids out there and I want to cover them all, eventually. No one's probably going to buy podcasts, but there's a thing called Patreon where users can support content creators with a monthly donation and stuff. I think with enough quality content, people wouldn't mind paying a couple of bucks a month for their kids to listen to a couple of podcasts per week. Oh, that's the other thing. Frequency. Once a week seems too low for me, especially if it was a short segment, but any more than that and that might get overwhelming on research and stuff. I don't know. Lots of stuff to work out.
Right now, we're kind of taking school as it happens. After the initial 9-week commitment, depending on how the pandemic is progressing, we may continue it or put them back in school full-time...