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-=> Quoting Damon A. Getsman to Nancy Backus on 12-Jul-2015 07:49 <=-

 DAG> Re: Re: Aikido, kids activities, kittie
 DAG> By: Nancy Backus to Damon A. Getsman on Mon Jun 29 2015 18:11:16
 NB>> Maybe he just assumed you'd know, or be able to find out from somewhere
 NB>> else... ;)
 DAG> Yeah I'm trying to give the sensei the benefit of the doubt.  He
 DAG> seemed like the friendliest one that I've met around here so far.  Plus
 DAG> he's the only fulltime Aikido dude in Portland (at least from what he
 DAG> says).  Seems super friendly, really good with kids (with ones of his
 DAG> own, also), and I'm still planning on going with him.  Still, I checked
 DAG> on all of the websites and everything.  Would've been really nice to
 DAG> have gotten that callback. 

Sounds like someone worth giving the benefit of the doubt to... :)

 NB>> Could just be super busy, or not too organized at the administration
 NB>> level, or his voicemail doesn't work right...  Sometimes in person
 NB>> works best for things anyway...  :)
 DAG> Yeah.  Like I said, I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt.  I'm
 DAG> going to go in and see him again tomorrow, when he's got a standard
 DAG> session, and just start myself right away (if I can pull the cash
 DAG> together) and then probably get Deschain started right away, too, or
 DAG> else maybe wait for the family session on Sunday a week from today if
 DAG> he's more comfortable with that. 

So are you settled in there yet...?  or more setbacks still... 

 NB>> Sink fixed now...?
 DAG> Finally, praise be to all of the dieties that there may be.  There
 DAG> is still a large amount of disarray where the kitchen was all torn
 DAG> apart to give them access, and there was a hell of a scare that the
 DAG> landlord would appear to micromanage things, as per his style, while
 DAG> the plumber was here.  The clot was quite aways out, so it was
 DAG> definitely his responsibility, and didn't end up coming out of our
 DAG> dime, but the stress...  Ugh.  Especially in having to hide everything
 DAG> that made it look like there were too many tenants here.  Still
 DAG> recovering from that complete ragtag compression of all of my worldly
 DAG> goods into the different closets and under some pieces of furniture
 DAG> around here. 

At least it's finally taken care of...  :)  

 DAG> Just need to carve through the mountains of backlogged, and
 DAG> somewhat toxic (due to NaOH), dishes and other cookwares.  Then I need
 DAG> a day when this place is somewhat vacated to pull out all of my crap
 DAG> from the closets and the other stash spots so that I can get it all
 DAG> staged again to be replanted in areas where it'll stay folded and
 DAG> otherwise organized.  It was a pretty major upset, having to hide 2/3
 DAG> of the belongings in a 1 bedroom apartment occupied by three people. 
 DAG> Wouldn't recommend it.  The kitchen, at least, is slowly returning to
 DAG> functionality, though. 

Eventually...    At least it wasn't a studio... ;)

 DAG>> I think I found another community center that we'll be able to
 NB>> Did that work out...?  Close enough to get to, and all...?
 DAG> Didn't happen yet due to other crap.  I tried getting him out to
 DAG> some closer locations and none of them worked out, so I've still
 DAG> definitely got to go there.  In fact *puts reminder in calendar for
 DAG> tomorrow* now I won't forget. ;)

And.......???   ;)
 
 DAG> Oh, I do.  It's always good when he points that out, also, because
 DAG> my own insecurity on the issue of employment in this field really
 DAG> shoots me in the foot sometimes.  It's hard to maintain that "I'm not
 DAG> worthy," mentality when I find a bug that the experienced guy has been
 DAG> banging his head against the cinderblocks with for a few hours after
 DAG> taking a brief glimpse at the code, though.  ;)  We've got pretty
 DAG> complimentary  skill sets, and it's handy. Unfortunately right now
 DAG> we're both down these coding rabbitholes that've got us buried in the
 DAG> same stuff.  Then again, that means it's my time to learn.  He's doing
 DAG> a little bit of double time teaching me what I'd forgotten about PHP
 DAG> and learning all about the OO support that it added that I'd never
 DAG> learned before. So I'm happy with it.  I'm just keeping my fingers
 DAG> crossed as far as his levels of motivation staying up.  ;)
 
Sounds to me like progress is being made...  :)

 NB>> Sounds like you were fortunate to have the kitty
 NB>> for as long as you did, actually..  :)
 DAG> I was, very much.  I certainly won't forget that.  I say it about
 DAG> several different things, so maybe it comes across as just a cliche
 DAG> that I use sometimes, but there are large chunks of my life where I
 DAG> don't know if I would've been able to make it through without that cat
 DAG> (or his brother, before his early loss).  I actually wrote up a whole
 DAG> series of messages on my local boards about the different adventures
 DAG> that I had with those cats...  Maybe sometime I'll cross post those to
 DAG> international, or something.  They're windy and long, but I don't think
 DAG> that they're too badly written, and it goes into serious depth on some
 DAG> of the different bits of history with them that I alluded to in
 DAG> different messages over the months/years that I've been here. 

Cats can be important safety valves...

 DAG> I had to take a little bit of time off as well.  Had a little med
 DAG> change that hasn't been throwing me for one of my major loops, but it's
 DAG> made things a little bit more stressful.  So basically, when I haven't
 DAG> been using the computer for work lately, I've been spending a lot more
 DAG> time disconnected. Trying to do more things with my son around here,
 DAG> too, since it seems like the ones outdoors have, at least in the
 DAG> general vicinity, all been pre-sabotaged by Loki.  :)  Good things to
 DAG> be doing though, I think. Best wishes.

Agreed, good things to be doing...   :) 

ttyl     neb

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