Re: camping  was: bbsing
  By: Nancy Backus to Damon A. Getsman on Mon May 04 2015 17:46:32

 DAG>> stressful as this last campout. More of just a day to be a beach
 DAG>> bum, maybe cook some hotfrogs, throw some recreational spheres
 DAG>> around, all of that jazz.  ;) 
 NB> That sounds like fun... did you get to, and did he enjoy it...?

  Alas, plans got pre-empted last weekend.  Not sure if we'll get a chance to
try again this weekend.  I'd like to do something nice for him, because there
was a carnival around that we were going to try to hit early this week, and
that fell through, too.  At least he didn't know about it; I learned from a
fellow parent friend not so long ago to not really inform the little guy about
what may be planned until it's actually going down, just in case something like
that comes up.  Saves on the shattered dreams for the day kind of scenerios.
  A few fires got set on the contract work that I was doing that made keeping
up with the beach bumming impossible.  I ended up having to do a work crunch on
Sunday that blew it out of the water.  Should've tried harder to get out on
Saturday, I suppose, but I was busy catching up on chores most of that day. 
Anyhoo, it will definitely be happening soon here.

 NB> Something one just can't see ahead of time... and sometimes one just
 NB> doesn't have a lot of choice in circumstances until things get more
 NB> under control...  Hopefully you'll be able to find a better location for
 NB> your and your son's needs and wellbeing...  :)

  Well, with the hours cap on my contract just having been quadrupled, it looks
like I'll be able to start getting a savings account ready for a scenerio like
this fairly soon here.  Needless to say I'm pretty pumped about the whole
issue.  This paycheck to paycheck crap gets old rapidly, especially when one
has a charge to look after.  It may actually be time to stop just looking at
general neighborhoods and start looking for rentals somewhat soon here.  I'll
keep my fingers crossed on that.  They're only lifting the hours limit for a
few weeks while more fires are being put out, but I believe that after a few
weeks of that there may be more contracts that need some work done on them.

 NB> That's a shame... so the stress was mostly just on the way there...? 
 NB> and relieved by the camping itself...?

  Well it was on the way there and back.  So approximately 5 hours of shite
were mixed in with 3/4 of a day out in the woods, half of which was sleeping. 
It was relieved by the camping, but then the way back was worse than the way
there, so it almost negated everything.  After I got back and was able to chill
out for awhile I think it was still a net positive, though.  If not for me, at
least for my son, who had a couple of other kids to play with.  They had a
great time, when they weren't in the van.  It was great to see him playing hard
nonstop with the other kids the whole time there.  Definitely something that he
needed.  Heck, I'd deal with a net negative as long as he was getting something
like that.  My old bones can take some aggravation to make sure that his
childhood gets as much suckiness pulled out of it as possible.  ;)

 NB> Sounds like you just have to learn not to let your imagination run away
 NB> with you...    Or move to someplace where the danger is less (or you
 NB> don't know about the dangers [g])...

  Oh definitely.  I haven't mentioned that one of my hobbies is writing
fiction, which normally devolves into horror sometime by the tenth page or so. 
I've got a great imagination for that stuff and it does, definitely, get out of
hand sometimes.  ;)  Here is real great for the imagination, being nestled
cozily in between two active volcanos and on a fault like that's quite a ways
overdue for a magnitude 8+ quake in a city that isn't prepared for that sort of
tumbler what so ever.  The chances are either 30 percent for it in the next 50
years or 50 percent in the next 30 years.  Can't remember for sure, the
dyslexia is getting me.  ;)  Either way, for that magnitude of a quake it's
scary as hell for someone with an imagination like my own.  I just hope I'm not
in any sort of brick structure when that goes down, if I'm still here.

 NB> It doesn't hurt to have similar threads happening in different echoes...
 NB> there's at least a potential that way of engaging different people in
 NB> the conversation(s)... eg Maurice is here and in Asian_Link, but not in
 NB> Memories... and some are only in Memories...  :)

  That's very true.  Didn't think about it like that.  It's nice to have
different people jumping in from time to time.  :)

 NB> I made a habit a long time ago of saving messages to and from me (and a
 NB> few others, on occasion) for any echo I was active in.  It just makes
 NB> finding the information a little easier.  :)  I also save my Reply
 NB> packets, just in case I need to re-send something... that saved me a
 NB> number of times when I'd written out an involved genealogy message... no
 NB> re-typing needed, just an extract and insert into a new message.  :)

  I used to do that quite awhile ago, but I definitely got out of the habit. 
The interface that I use to get on my BBS is a little bit difficult for cutting
'n pasting, so I think if I were to do that I'd probably try coding something
right into the interface that would help me deal with it a little bit easier. 
Then again, using a QWK method like you're talking about would probably make
that quick 'n easy, too.

  -D
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