Re: Summer plans  was: shinies and sickies
  By: Nancy Backus to Damon A. Getsman on Sat Aug 29 2015 18:26:16

 NB> No, it was mine, pure and simple... I have a stack of BW message packets
 NB> on the computer, and it was more than a page in the reader listing, so I
 NB> ended up answering a message in a newer packet before doing the older
 NB> packets... :)

  Ah gotcha.  No worries.  :)
  By the way, you'll probably notice that there will be several messages that
I'm not responding to, at least right away.  I've got a _huge_ backlog, and I
really pruned some of the threads that were way out of date back there.  They
were all regarding conversational tangents that things seem to keep wrapping
back around to, anyway.  ;)

 NB> With any luck, they'll not be made of glass and shatter when you drop
 NB> them...    Seriously, though, staying reasonably frugal makes good
 NB> sense... then when the inevitable down times come, one is in a better
 NB> position to weather them, both by practice and by not already being
 NB> over-extended...  :)

  Yeah.  God the call of having a 5-digit bank account is screaming at me
lately.  I really don't have very far into the 4s, either.  Certainly not
enough to sustain for more than a month or two.  That's the moving fund, too. 
Keep your fingers crossed for more contract work to come in here.  I'm starting
to look for more hourly stuff around here, too.  Stuff that hopefully I'll be
able to manage; entry levelish yet still interesting, hopefully.

 NB> Indeed.  Unbroken bootstraps might be helpful... but those calling for
 NB> their use rarely supply the need... ;0

  Well it's good that some people understand that.  ;)

 NB> Shoulda been running and meditating instead of picking up the smoking,
 NB> after all... ;)  But yeah, I hear you... :)

  Well my body is in good enough condition now that I've been able to start
back with some things.  Even some [very limited] muscular work on my upper
body, though it's weaker than I've ever trained back from before.  I took my
3rd run without missing any today.  Forgot my inhaler, though, and had an
asthma attack 15 minutes out, so it didn't really go as well as it could have. 
It's a good time to drop the smokes again, you've got that part right.

 NB> That's part of the problem with needing meds... no way to have a more
 NB> reliable way of getting them than what you have now...?  And probably no
 NB> way to build yourself a small emergency stockpile to tide you over when
 NB> this sort of thing happens...  You'd think that the VA would recognize
 NB> the importance of keeping the meds stable to keep you stable...

  Not really any way other than the VA right now, no.  Like I mentioned in the
other message, though, this is a constant goal of mine, as it is for you.  I'll
see what I'm able to manage.
  Moar soon.  :)

  -D
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