Re: pushing on   was: Summer plans  was: shinies and sickies
  By: Nancy Backus to Damon A. Getsman on Wed Sep 30 2015 14:08:20

 NB> Not a problem... As long as you keep your end of the conversation up,
 NB> and don't lose the important bits, that's what counts... ;)  And, as
 NB> you've probably noticed, I've been slowly responding back, anyway... ;)

  Well, I'm trying to keep it up, but as you can tell the volume that I'm able
to deal with has decreased a bit in the last few weeks.  I'm going to work on
compressing what's left a bit, too, so that I don't have such an overwhelming
amount to deal with here.

 NB> Did all of the mess around the late etc payments finally get
 NB> straightened around...? 

  Everything is good.  I haven't replenished what I had to survive off of from
savings, but this week should hopefully put me back in the green far enough so
that I can start making deposits again.

 NB> Hopefully the contract work will pick up again quickly...  :)  As for
 NB> the hourly work, also hopefully something that will easily fit your
 NB> schedule around Deschain's school hours, and that isn't too far away for
 NB> your transportation there.....

  It seems to be picking up.  Granted, some of the work was more of a creative
exercise in finding out what the client wanted but didn't know that they
wanted, but the point is that they've authorized more hours.  :)
  The hourly work is something that I haven't done much about yet.  I really
need to, but I'm taking baby steps on getting myself back out into the world of
people.  A couple of the different professionals that I've been talking to have
recommended after the amount of isolation that I've been dealing with to take
it slow, so I'm hoping to start taking an hour a day at different coffee shops
around here now that I've got a working laptop battery.  I wonder if I'll get
any comments about how awesome, retro, and vintage my laptop is since it's a
massive hulk from awhile ago instead of something slim 'n new.  Heh.

 NB> Next time, remember your inhaler.. ;)  But that sounds like some decent
 NB> progress...  :)

  The progress is getting better rapidly.  I'm back up to my normal recovery
and performance curve on running, almost.  The strength issues are still
hanging around until that shoulder is good enough to train with.  I don't know
how long that's going to take; it's still a few more weeks before I can see the
physical therapist for more input on that again, as well.

 NB> Mind you, I'm speaking as a non-smoker... but with friends and family
 NB> that do smoke...  In my experience, though, observing, the smokes never
 NB> really do do as much good as they are supposedly doing, and cause health
 NB> problems of various sorts as well...

  Well smokes allegedly help one deal with stress.  Nicotine alone is pretty
good for it, I hear.  So it makes a great crutch.  Other than that it's good
for nothing, and the crutch thing is a double-edged sword anyway.  You don't
want crutches that you can't throw away when you don't need them any more. 
Anyhoo I've got asthma and all kinds of fun stuff like that, too.  So they've
never really been a plus in my department for anything other than helping me
deal with social anxiety.  Totally not worth it.  The health problems are
enormous and can be quite life-ending, so yeah...  I'm glad I've been off of
all the tobacco for a week again now.  See if I can push back up into the years
away from it again this time.  ;)

 NB> Does talking to your VA docs do any good...?  You'd think they'd have
 NB> some interest in keeping you stable... you'd think, anyway... ;0

  They're putting it off for awhile for some reason until I've been stable
longer.  Talk about a catch .22...  Stay stable with unstable medications until
we decide that we can give you enough meds to stay stable with.  Great plan,
and a true indicator of government planning and action.

  -D
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