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-=> Quoting Damon A. Getsman to Nancy Backus on 22-Jun-2015 08:32 <=-

 NB>> Hopefully..  :)   It seems, in any case, that perhaps another visit
 NB>> to the region might be called for, when things are more settled...
 NB>> and then you can make sure the phone's battery is fully charged... or
 NB>> bring a real camera...  ;)
 DAG> I agree.  :)  I miss having a 'real' camera.  I mean the ones in
 DAG> cell phones these days are pretty good, but nothing really beats a
 DAG> really good camera.  I actually wouldn't mind getting another film one
 DAG> at some point, too.  I miss having 35mm for the more artsy shots.

Those are getting almost obsolete... but I'm sure that professional
photographers must still be using them...  :)

 DAG> For now though, I've gone ahead and tried to cement in a large
 DAG> amount of hours at work and been workin' on the good habits that I'm
 DAG> trying to get cemented in place.  :)  Seems to be the best idea. 

Sounds reasonable to me.  :)

 DAG> It's broken up by struggling to find some more interesting things to
 DAG> do with my son...  Today is the day that I play catch 'n release. 
 DAG> Wish me luck on the white knuckles of having my son out and about in
 DAG> this kind of area.  ;) 

Being a week or so later, how did you and he survive...?   ;)

 NB>> Almost more trouble than they were worth...  ;)
 DAG> They definitely were, for me.  Though for my son, I think he got a
 DAG> lot more benefit because he's able to deal with those kinds of
 DAG> stressors more easily. So his surplus of benefit kind of pours over and
 DAG> makes me feel that it was a lot more worth it than if it would've just
 DAG> been for me. 

For him, it was just a trip and camping... for you it was also worrying
about how things would work out, and all the peripherals... ;)  Good
that you can take his benefit, and apply it to your "benefit balance
sheet"...  ;)

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

 DAG> Well I'm definitely looking for a chance to restock my
 DAG> camping/survival gear, but not necessarily right away.  There's just
 DAG> not enough space with three people in a one bedroom apartment.

There is that, too... :)  When you have more space on your own, you'd be
able to store things better...  :)

 NB>> Yeah, you're probably paranoid..  ;)  I wouldn't be surprised if your
 NB>> upbringing hadn't made that so ingrained for you, though...  I wouldn't
 NB>> say flat out that it couldn't happen... there's always the possibility,
 NB>> I just tend to be more optimistic that things will work themselves out..
 NB>> and I know Who really is in control of the mess, and will work things as
 NB>> they should ultimately be...  :)
 DAG> Oh I know for a fact that my upbringing made me paranoid.  Then
 DAG> again, my time in the army confirmed a lot of conspiracy crap that'd
 DAG> always run through my head, so I think I get discounted by my crazy
 DAG> upbringing a little bit too easily sometimes.  :)

Some days, I think the military is more than a little paranoid, too...
with or without good reason...  But what you bring to it probably has
something to do with what you see there, as well... 
 
 NB>> Hopefully you succeeded...  :)   More later... from whichever echos...;)
 DAG> I can't remember if I got past the distraction next to me that day
 DAG> or not.  I do know that we made some hellacious progress on getting out
 DAG> a decent amount of hours this last week, though, and I was pushing hard
 DAG> as much as I could when I wasn't blocked on tickets while my roomie was
 DAG> sick, too.  So despite the bumps, the trajectory is definitely upwards.

Very good.  :)

 DAG> I've got one paycheck in the mail and another freshly invoiced; the
 DAG> freshly invoiced one is going to be the best I've made so far, and I'm
 DAG> trying to make that the standard per week.  This summer could be a
 DAG> really good time for digging myself out of the hole that we've ended up
 DAG> in for a bit. 

Sounds wonderful..  ;)   I'm sure that it's a great feeling... relief,
too...  :)

ttyl           neb

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