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-=> Quoting Damon A. Getsman to Nancy Backus on 12-Jun-2015 22:13 <=-

 NB>> Sequoias and redwoods are pretty awesome...  :)  I can't blame him for
 NB>> wanting to share those with you...  :)
 DAG> It was great.  ;)  Unfortunately I was working without very much
 DAG> battery life left in my phone most of the time.  So, while I managed to
 DAG> get some decent photos from parts of the trip, when we went out on the
 DAG> absolutely breathtaking hike from the top of one of the ridges down to
 DAG> the bottom of the gorge where the ocean was meeting the forest, the
 DAG> phone lied to me and told me that it was taking and saving the
 DAG> pictures, while the whole time it was losing the very best ones.  :(  I
 DAG> think that I should be able to get some of those pictures back from
 DAG> some other members of our trip, though. 

Hopefully..  :)   It seems, in any case, that perhaps another visit to
the region might be called for, when things are more settled... and then
you can make sure the phone's battery is fully charged... or bring a
real camera...  ;)

 NB>> Pluses and minuses to camping... and too much at a time can definitely
 NB>> be a put-off for more...  ;)  Plus you have other things on your plate
 NB>> now that have more than minor benefit to them...  ;)   How long is this
 NB>> camping trip to be...?
 DAG> Well the last one was a Friday night to a Monday.  My son got to
 DAG> miss a full day of school out of the last week of school that he had,
 DAG> so he was pretty pumped about that. 

He's at the right age for that... ;)  

 DAG> As for right now there are no more planned for the immediate future,
 DAG> which is good.  Parts of the voyages that we had been going on were
 DAG> starting to be a little bit more like tasks than like vacation.

Almost more trouble than they were worth...  ;)

 DAG> Plus I think what I really need more of right now is some time to cement
 DAG> the good habits and routines in place, not escaping it and taking a
 DAG> monetary hit when I really need to be saving up a nest egg right now. 

Sounds wise to me.   :)   Find things closer to home and less expensive
for now, when you do need to take a break from the routine...  :)  But
putting most of the effort into establishing the routines and good
habits...  :)

 NB>> The minor hassles of life... ;)  Guess you need to pack a waterproof
 NB>> surface to roll out onto the picnic table to protect the cards... ;)
 DAG> Yeah.  Lots of my camping gear disappeared during those last rough
 DAG> relocations when I was in North Dakota still.  I'm still missing some
 DAG> stuff because of that; when we start getting into a ready-to-camp mode
 DAG> again I'll hopefully have the resources available to start restocking
 DAG> these supplies, though. 

Some things you might be able to pick up along the way, should you see
them available at a good deal...  :)

 DAG> Plus, with my normal doom-n-gloom outlook on society and the way that
 DAG> our government is taking things, I like having survival gear around
 DAG> just in case things start looking like some sort of a trip out to a
 DAG> nondisclosed location in the hills might be a good idea.  :)  Call me
 DAG> paranoid, but we live in a crazy friggin' world, even if we _are_
 DAG> mostly isolated from large chunks of that in this country. 

Yeah, you're probably paranoid..  ;)  I wouldn't be surprised if your
upbringing hadn't made that so ingrained for you, though...  I wouldn't
say flat out that it couldn't happen... there's always the possibility,
I just tend to be more optimistic that things will work themselves out..
and I know Who really is in control of the mess, and will work things as
they should ultimately be...  :)   

 NB> Nice effort...  I note that there are two more from you here in DADS...
 NB> but I'm off to do stuff myself now... those will have to wait...  :)
 NB> We'll get caught up soon enough...  ;)

 DAG> Yeah I've been really slammed with different things lately, so I'm
 DAG> trying to get to a few more messages that I know I've got piled up in
 DAG> different echoes, too.  So no worries about it taking awhile, because
 DAG> things are definitely going to be taking awhile from my end, too. 
 DAG> Especially when I've got the kind of distraction brewing next to me
 DAG> that is going on right now.  

I suspect I don't want to know what sort of distraction... 

 DAG> God it's going to be nice once there's been enough cash saved up to
 DAG> pick up a place that gives me a little respite from the distraction
 DAG> when I need it.  *tries to go to the happy place*  Oh yeah, I didn't
 DAG> have a chance to meditate today, either.  No doubt that's causing me
 DAG> to be a couple of steps behind where I could be with this all right now.
 DAG> Anyway that's it for now.  I'm gonna try to get some work done now.

Hopefully you succeeded...  :)   More later... from whichever echos...  ;)

ttyl         neb


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