-=> Quoting Damon A. Getsman to Nancy Backus on 14-Aug-2015 19:27 <=-

 NB>> Yeah... he probably has his time and his hands full...  :)  And it
 NB>> sounds like, like my massage therapist, it's a one-person show...  Her
 NB>> personal phone is her business phone, and there's nobody but herself to
 NB>> handle phone calls, etc, along with the business itself... :)
 DAG> That's what I'm guessing.  Right now I'm dealing with the fact that
 DAG> I'm behind in invoicing to the tune of around ~$2000, so that's holding
 DAG> me back again here.  I really need to learn how to do the invoicing
 DAG> myself so that I'm not relying on anybody else, especially anybody that
 DAG> doesn't have the will to get up and breathe, let alone make money or
 DAG> keep stable a place to stay. 

Yeah, learning to do the invoicing yourself sounds like a very good
idea... even if you weren't having to deal with someone else's
issues... :)

 NB>> And then, hopefully, the Aikido will continue into the school year...?
 DAG> Well the Aikido is something that I plan to do permanently.  As far
 DAG> as Deschain, I'd like him to at least get to a point where it'd help
 DAG> him if he's getting physically attacked.  It'd be really cool if he'd
 DAG> like to stay in it long enough so that we could do it as a bonding
 DAG> thing into the teen years and all, though.  :)

If he likes it enough...  :)

 NB>> Yeah... the bit at a time is probably a good strategy... can be done
 NB>> sooner than later... and yup, you'll need to do something when the kid
 NB>> goes back to school...  :)
 DAG> Yeah.  I've got tasks and different things piled up left and right. 
 DAG> I need to start prioritizing some sort of a list again.  It'll be so
 DAG> much easier to catch back up with a lot of this stuff once he's in
 DAG> school again.  God that's less than 2 weeks now.  They had an
 DAG> extraordinarily short summer. 

Or at least it seems like it now...   :)   When does school start out
where you are...?  Here it's the day or so after Labor Day...

 DAG>>>> I think I found another community center that we'll be able to
 NB>> And you'll be able to use the information later, even if it turns out
 NB>> not to be needed at the moment...  :)  Or it might be just the thing to
 NB>> get you both through the tail end of summer... :)
 DAG> Not sure we'll make it before that, but it's a goal to get to as
 DAG> soon as humanly possible.  If my meds stabilize enough for me to be
 DAG> more comfortable going out in public and engaging in conversation I'll
 DAG> probably get him there before school; otherwise it is definitely a
 DAG> resource for the future. 

Even just having it as a resource for the future is a good thing... :)

 NB>> Or take in an adult cat and promise the kitten for next summer...  ;)
 NB>> Or get a small stuffed animal or two in the interim, one for each of
 NB>> you, perhaps... ;)

 DAG> Well there are 2 more cats living in this 1 bedroom apartment.  I
 DAG> think that's out of the question for now, at least for the living ones.

So he can at least maybe transfer some attention to the other cats
there...  :)

 DAG> Maybe some stuffed ones soon here...  I know Deschain's already got
 DAG> some holed up somewhere here, but I need one for myself, too.  Too bad
 DAG> they don't have any that knead lightly and rattle at you adoringly
 DAG> while squinting into your eyes. 

Probably there's some sort of robot cat that does... but those are
probably rather expensive...  ;)  You'll just have to imagine the
kneading and the rattle... and squint back into the glass eyes of the
stuffed one...  

ttyl        neb

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