-=> Quoting Damon A. Getsman to Nancy Backus on 11-Jul-2015 09:54 <=-
 DAG> Re: Re: shinies and sickies  was: camping
 DAG> By: Nancy Backus to Damon A. Getsman on Sat Jun 27 2015 19:09:18

I'm sorta testing a theory... that something might be thinking that some
replies are dupes, despite the different dates and all... possibly in
response to the opposite problem in A_L, where messages come back as
dupes with only the time-date changed...  all very weird...  ;)  So I'm
changing the subject lines for all of them now...
 
 NB>> Shinies weren't so important to me, but books used to get me
 NB>> off-track... some days more easily than others... now, it's more
 NB>> that my mind might start to wander, and things just don't quite get
 NB>> done... And then there's all the interruptions in my own plans for
 NB>> things that need doing for other people..   :)

 DAG> I stopped having books be quite such a shiny for me right when I
 DAG> started college.  Up until then I'd lose myself in volumes for days,
 DAG> sometimes weeks, depending on the size and the content of what it was
 DAG> that I'd sunk my nose into.

I was always a very fast reader, so I'd get through a book in a day or
so, often less... Books got to be a little less of a shiny when my eyes
started giving me problems... sigh...  ;)

 DAG> Other shinies used to be pretty big for me, but they've faded
 DAG> primarily during the poverty years.  It's funny how much you can just
 DAG> cease to contemplate as options become bereft for such a long time.

True... one starts to see that some things just aren't really as shiny
as they appear, when necessities by necessity trump them...    Like
my son discovering that he could spend the same amount of money on
snacky foods for a day or real food for two weeks... and the money in
hand had to last him until the next small paycheck, in two weeks... ;) 
He called me from college to report that fact, and his very wise
decision to go with the real food... ;)  That was a couple of decades
ago now, but the lesson seems to have stuck, mostly... ;)

 DAG> I'm trying to re-cultivate my reading habit, but it's taking time. 
 DAG> Part of it is, I believe, that my bio-mom wants me to read her
 DAG> manuscript and tell her what I think of it.  I've only known her for a
 DAG> few years and I'm flat out horrified that it's going to suck and I
 DAG> don't want to lie to her about it. Guess I should just sack up and do
 DAG> what I need to anyway. 

Guess so.  ;)   Hopefully it won't be too bad, and you'll be able to
just find areas that she could edit some to make them better...  And if
you're really lucky, it'll be good, and you'll be able to tell her so.  :)

 DAG>> Keeping my fingers crossed for aikido this week, though.  It'd be
 NB>> And if you can do it together, so much the better for both of you, on
 NB>> various levels... :)

 DAG> Absolutely.  Unfortunately, finances were gobbled due to a bank
 DAG> error (one that was not my own), and I have no aikido fund, nor even
 DAG> the prospect of a next paper check in the near future, as the same
 DAG> individual who made the banking mishap with my paycheck also got behind
 DAG> on invoicing the contractor. I'll hold my tongue about that little
 DAG> debaucle for a little while, though. Needless to say I'm not pleased
 DAG> about it, but there's also nothing I can do, and it is a temporary
 DAG> situation.  Afterwards I will be loaded with the cash that I was
 DAG> prevented from spending frivolously, so it could be a good thing in
 DAG> disguise, I suppose, in a very Loki-inspired kind of way. 

Hopefully it will all work out properly in the end... maybe even
already...  Sounds like someone isn't particularly meticulous with
keeping accounts....

 DAG>> possible. When I've got the next paycheck in I should be able to
 DAG>> make up for things a little bit, hopefully.
 NB>> Sometimes we just can't get everything we'd like to... and it's not a
 NB>> bad lesson to learn when young...  :)

 DAG> You have hit that nail right on the head, I believe.  Hell, the
 DAG> fiscal diet that we've been on, despite the fact that I'm pulling in
 DAG> more money than I ever have, except for some stretches in the military,
 DAG> perhaps, has given me a nice little reminder of this fact, as well as
 DAG> the buddhist tenet that nothing is permanent, and to hold onto
 DAG> something is to open yourself up for suffering. 

Not just buddhist... :)   Material things aren't permanent just by their
nature... 

 DAG> We're all doing good....  Physically.  There's been a little bit of
 DAG> mental malaise going on in the house, but it [thankfully] hasn't struck
 DAG> me, and I think its victim is slowly getting back on the horse, so it's
 DAG> all good.  Losing a whopping load of somebody else's money that you had
 DAG> slated to pay back will do that to a person, I suppose.  Especially if
 DAG> other life areas are imploding due to poor planning and execution at
 DAG> the same time. 

Ouch.  Hope he gets it all back together properly...  :)  

 DAG> More later!  I'm on a small roll here already today!

I see.  ;)   Well, I've things now I have to go do, so I'll have to
break for now, and get back to messaging later...  :)

ttyl          neb

... "At last I'm organized", he sighed, and died.

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