-=> Quoting Damon A. Getsman to Nancy Backus on 11-Jul-2015 09:32 <=-

 NB>> Progress continues, though slowly...  She always has been slow at
 NB>> bouncing back, anyway...  Now we just have to figure out how we are
 NB>> going to manage her care when we go camping as an extended family...
 NB>> some will be in tents, some in cabins, so at least we aren't going to
 NB>> have to worry about how to deal with her in a tent... 
 But there
 NB>> are a few other logistics still to work out... :)

 DAG> Things slow as we get older, too.  Not a whole much that can be done
 DAG> about that except keeping the factors ideal that really matter. 
 DAG> Definitely sounds like a good idea to keep her in one of the more
 DAG> plush areas. 

And, as things turned out, she wasn't able to do the camping at all,
since she fell and broke her hip and had to stay home... At least we
were able to bring her home to do her rehab, which she is still in the
process of doing, and once again progress continues, but slowly.  :) 
Now we have a year or so to figure out next year's camping... well, not
really, since if we go to the same area again, reservations are best
made in January... ;) 

 DAG>> find meaningful myself.  Those media seem to be the equivalent of
 DAG>> background static to me these days.  I find more and more that I'm
 NB>> From what I've seen, there's not a lot of meaningful content... even
 NB>> when meaningful things are being shared...

 DAG> Very true.  Except when something like Ferguson pops up.  Then
 DAG> you've got a horde of people that are managing to do a really good job
 DAG> of getting the stories out that the mass media are ignoring, or at
 DAG> least doing their best to be distracted from.  Some of that stuff I
 DAG> really value. 

As long as you actually are getting the real story... 

 DAG> But the everyday content that used to be so nice and shiny to me a few
 DAG> years back...  It's just rough, tarnished sand to me now.  I don't know
 DAG> what to do with it, and I don't really have enough interest to care. 
 DAG> I'm much more interested in meeting IRL people, and not having to wade
 DAG> through a ton of memes and other foolish crap before I get there. 

I hear you there.... part of the reasons I never got involved in that
scene, except as a bystander, watching others go through their accounts,
or occasionally finding something they wanted me to see...  ;)

 DAG>> my 'cantankerous a-hole' quota of the day with just a couple of
 DAG>> keystrokes, too.  ;)
 NB>> As long as you do it in the appropriate echoes...  ;)

 DAG> Oh well I've gotten into the fray before, but I try not to do
 DAG> anything like that any more.  I say my 'cantankerous a-hole' quota of
 DAG> the day because for some reason really cranky folks put a smile on my
 DAG> face sometimes, as long as I have a little bit of room to get away from
 DAG> them.  So at this phase in my life it's really more of just watching
 DAG> someone else chuck the hornet's nest around, rather than doing it
 DAG> myself. 

Ah... I can appreciate that...  ;)  More of a vicarious pleasure... ;)

 NB>> You might be just a bit cynical there... but I've seen the same thing,
 NB>> actually...  :)  It's still possible to meet one's neighbors in person,
 NB>> but it takes more effort, and people aren't nearly so much in evidence
 NB>> as one walks down the street anymore, either...

 DAG> Social media has done a lot of wonderful things, especially making
 DAG> it easier to stay in touch with relatives and the like.  At the same
 DAG> time, it's made it easier to 'think' that you're in all the
 DAG> communication with them that matters, when really a few words on a
 DAG> keyboard don't have an ounce on spending a few hours with someone in
 DAG> person.  We're losing the art of conversation with some people that've
 DAG> been too isolated in these environments, and I think isolation as a
 DAG> whole is definitely up on the rise, at least in the more developed
 DAG> countries, because all they need is their facebook now. 

One needs to learn (and keep) the proper balance between the social
media, and what could be true benefits of staying in touch, and real
life where relationships can be deeper and more sustained... 

 DAG> Sorry, it's been a busy and stressful few weeks.  I know I've still
 DAG> got a horde more than I'm waiting on replying to.  Hopefully I can get
 DAG> to them soon here.

Not a problem... I see that you made some good inroads into answering
things while I was away for a couple of weeks... and it's taking me
longer than I anticipated to get caught up with it all (not just
yours... )....  :)  So I'm just whittling away at the pile as I get
the chance... hoping to be caught up again before I go away again later
in August...  ;)

ttyl            neb

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