-=> Quoting Damon A. Getsman to Nancy Backus on 11-Oct-2015 08:22 <=-
 DAG> Re: pushing on   was: Summer plans  was: shinies and sickies
 DAG> 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... ;)
 DAG> Well, I'm trying to keep it up, but as you can tell the volume that
 DAG> I'm able to deal with has decreased a bit in the last few weeks.  I'm
 DAG> going to work on compressing what's left a bit, too, so that I don't
 DAG> have such an overwhelming amount to deal with here.

Can't blame you there...  ;)   At the moment, I seem to be able to stay
on top of things and stay current... so at least I shouldn't be sending
you lots all at once...  

 NB>> Did all of the mess around the late etc payments finally get
 NB>> straightened around...?
 DAG> Everything is good.  I haven't replenished what I had to survive off
 DAG> of from savings, but this week should hopefully put me back in the
 DAG> green far enough so that I can start making deposits again.

Sounds good... :)  Definitely moving in the right direction...  :)
 
 NB>> Hopefully the contract work will pick up again quickly...  :) 
 DAG> It seems to be picking up.  Granted, some of the work was more of
 DAG> a creative exercise in finding out what the client wanted but
 DAG> didn't know that they wanted, but the point is that they've
 DAG> authorized more hours.  :)

More hours authorized is very good... :)  The creative exercise is
probably actually part of why they hire the work out instead of trying
to do it themselves...  ;)

 NB>> As for the hourly work, also hopefully something that will easily
 NB>> fit your schedule around Deschain's school hours, and that isn't
 NB>> too far away for your transportation there.....
 DAG> The hourly work is something that I haven't done much about yet. 
 DAG> I really need to, but I'm taking baby steps on getting myself back out
 DAG> into the world of people.  A couple of the different professionals that
 DAG> I've been talking to have recommended after the amount of isolation
 DAG> that I've been dealing with to take it slow, so I'm hoping to start
 DAG> taking an hour a day at different coffee shops around here now that
 DAG> I've got a working laptop battery. 

That actually sounds like very sound advice... easier to acclimatize
yourself that way to the pressures of being in that world of people... 

 DAG> I wonder if I'll get any comments about how awesome, retro, and
 DAG> vintage my laptop is since it's a massive hulk from awhile ago
 DAG> instead of something slim 'n new.  Heh. 

Chuckle.  ;)  My laptop has just been "upgraded" from an Epson 486 to a
Toshiba Satellite Pro (don't remember if it's another 486 or something
later)...  Last year, with my old one, my niece spotted it and exclaimed
That's a Dinasaur!     My new one is pretty much a dinasaur, too, but
at least it works...  ;)

 NB>> Next time, remember your inhaler.. ;)  But that sounds like some
 NB>> decent progress...  :)
 DAG> The progress is getting better rapidly.  I'm back up to my normal
 DAG> recovery and performance curve on running, almost. 

Sounds very good... :)

 DAG> The strength issues are still hanging around until that shoulder is
 DAG> good enough to train with.  I don't know how long that's going to
 DAG> take; it's still a few more weeks before I can see the physical
 DAG> therapist for more input on that again, as well. 

In the meantime, you are doing the exercises the PT gave you for it,
anyway, right...?  Too bad you have to wait so long....

 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
 NB>> never really do do as much good as they are supposedly doing, and
 NB>> cause health problems of various sorts as well...
 DAG> Well smokes allegedly help one deal with stress.  Nicotine alone is
 DAG> pretty good for it, I hear.  So it makes a great crutch. 

I've heard that tale, too... and I'll buy the crutch aspect... ;)  From
the outside, though, it doesn't look like it does much for the stress
really, except as something that the person thinks is helping...

 DAG> Other than that it's good for nothing, and the crutch thing is a
 DAG> double-edged sword anyway.  You don't want crutches that you can't
 DAG> throw away when you don't need them any more.

For real...  :)

 DAG> Anyhoo I've got asthma and all kinds of fun stuff like that, too. 
 DAG> So they've never really been a plus in my department for anything
 DAG> other than helping me deal with social anxiety. Totally not worth
 DAG> it.  The health problems are enormous and can be quite life-ending,
 DAG> so yeah... 

Yup... certainly better for you to let them alone...  :)

 DAG> I'm glad I've been off of all the tobacco for a week again now. 
 DAG> See if I can push back up into the years away from it again this
 DAG> time.  ;)
 
I'm rooting for you to succeed...  :)  

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

[shaking head]  Quite short-sighted...  Are they decent docs
otherwise...?  or are you just stuck with what you've got despite them
not being all that good...

ttyl        neb

... "I am Hamlet, Prince of Borg. Prepare to be... or not to be."

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