-=> Quoting Damon A. Getsman to Nancy Backus on 12-Jul-2015 07:26 <=-

 DAG> Re: Re: camping  was: bbsing
 DAG> By: Nancy Backus to Damon A. Getsman on Mon Jun 29 2015 17:58:00

 NB>> Those are getting almost obsolete... but I'm sure that professional
 NB>> photographers must still be using them...  :)

 DAG> I'm pretty sure the 35 mm ones are obsolete by now.  It's just that
 DAG> I can use them so much better than most of the digital ones that I've
 DAG> played with, and my shots always come out looking spot on when I do
 DAG> things that way. 

As I said, I'm sure that the pros probably still use them, at least as
part of their arsenal... there certainly are some shots that they work
much better for...  :)

 DAG> If nothing else, I need to get good enough at researching my
 DAG> ways out of the rabbit holes that I find myself in (in the code) well
 DAG> enough so that I don't have to rely on other people around me.  I
 DAG> haven't forgotten the lesson that you only give someone credit for
 DAG> changing once they've changed, and I'm trying to make sure that I don't
 DAG> get burned when at some point in the future my finances take another
 DAG> hit due to others.  (Long story here, not really sure I should share
 DAG> all of the details just yet, though I may have alluded to them
 DAG> before). 

I've been getting bits and pieces... probably enough to piece things
together to some extent...  And as far as the work goes, I'm sure that
the more you work with it, the better and easier it will fall into place
for you... and you'll gain the confidence you need, too... :)

 DAG>> It's broken up by struggling to find some more interesting things
 DAG>> to do with my son...  Today is the day that I play catch 'n
 DAG>> release. Wish me luck on the white knuckles of having my son out
 DAG>> and about in this kind of area.  ;)
 NB>> Being a week or so later, how did you and he survive...?   ;)

 DAG> I failed.  I went out and looked for a lot of places with him, and
 DAG> we weren't able to turn up a single place in all of our hours out that
 DAG> had enough kids. Or, like, _any_ free range kids.  I'm expanding the
 DAG> boundaries that I'm using for looking in, but as mentioned before,
 DAG> that's got its own problems with the whole scenerio, too.  Trying to
 DAG> remain ever optimistic, I am! 

It's not a failure if there just isn't the proper opportunity... And if
there isn't a properly safe spot to do the catch and release, then that
just needs to wait till there is a safe spot...  :)

 NB>> There is that, too... :)  When you have more space on your own, you'd be
 NB>> able to store things better...  :)

 DAG> *crosses fingers*  I was at the point where I was somewhere between
 DAG> 25-33% of the way to being able to safely start looking at new pads,
 DAG> and that's all gone right now because of someone else's bank 'oopsie'. 
 DAG> Hence the drama that I alluded to above.  I know it's not that far
 DAG> away, and that it'll come in even faster once I'm getting my next
 DAG> checks _and_ repaid for the outstanding balance right now, but it's
 DAG> still frustrating as hell, if you'll pardon my lanugage. 

Just think of it as a minor setback... even though it feels like much
more... as you say, it'll work itself out, once you get the checks
directly and get repaid for the part that got snagged... 

 DAG>> I'm trying to make that the standard per week.  This summer could
 DAG>> be a really good time for digging myself out of the hole that we've
 DAG>> ended up in for a bit.
 NB>> Sounds wonderful..  ;)   I'm sure that it's a great feeling... relief,
 NB>> too...  :)

 DAG> Well, wish me luck on this next week of finances.  I'm scraping
 DAG> bottom right now again when I should be four digits in the green.  At
 DAG> least I had enough to pay a little more against the card that I had to
 DAG> almost max out getting treatment for my cat.  :P

Things will straighten out...  :)

ttyl      neb

... If you jump off a Parisian bridge, you are in Seine ...

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