Continuing with the missing reply... ;)  This more parenting and misc...

 DAG> Well, I've got a little programming in my upbringing that I'm trying
 DAG> to work over as far as insecurities and the like.  I think I've done
 DAG> pretty well working to stretch into my 4th decade, though.  There is
 DAG> also the fact that I've turned around a great many personal habits that
 DAG> were valid points to be insecure about, as well.  While I may not be at
 DAG> a perfet spot yet, there would be a steep climb in my rate of
 DAG> improvement over the last 6-7 years from the background that I'd
 DAG> previously had.  It's something to be proud of, and I suspect that that
 DAG> rate is being kept high due to my son.  I guess what I'm trying to say
 DAG> is I don't know if I'll ever quash them and become the Buddha, but I'm
 DAG> doing my best at making sure that I can deal with my insecurities.

I doubt any of us would become the Buddha... but learning how to manage
the insecurities is probably useful enough... :)

 NB>> Thank you for the well wishings...  :)  She's continuing to do better,
 NB>> growing stronger and able to do more things independently again... we
 NB>> still have to be there just in case, and for the stabilizing hold now
 NB>> and then... so I'm still taking some shifts of care coverage.  When she
 NB>> went for her followup visit to the surgeon to get the staples removed,
 NB>> he was quite pleased with her progress, and pronounced it a success.
 DAG> I'm very glad to hear that all went as well as can be hoped for.  :)
 
Progress continues, though slowly...  She always has been slow at
bouncing back, anyway...  Now we just have to figure out how we are
going to manage her care when we go camping as an extended family...
some will be in tents, some in cabins, so at least we aren't going to
have to worry about how to deal with her in a tent...   But there are
a few other logistics still to work out... :)

 DAG> I used to spend a whole lot more time on some of those web-based
 DAG> networks. It's taken me multiple years, but as my priorities have
 DAG> changed I've really found that I don't want that time sink either.  I
 DAG> find often these days that I'll wake up, and when I first get bored
 DAG> I'll open some tabs to those different sites.  As a little bit of time
 DAG> passes, though, or once I scroll a screenful or three, I find that I
 DAG> could really care less about the content on there, and I don't really
 DAG> have the motivation to add content that I really find meaningful
 DAG> myself.  Those media seem to be the equivalent of background static to
 DAG> me these days.  I find more and more that I'm missing a day, or two, or
 DAG> even three, before I know it, in days that I have those tabs open and
 DAG> sitting and waiting. 

From what I've seen, there's not a lot of meaningful content... even
when meaningful things are being shared... 

 DAG> These kinds of forums, the text-based ones, I
 DAG> don't think I'll ever totally unplug from.  There's far too much depth
 DAG> of character and feeling that's expressed here that doesn't work its
 DAG> way into the different web-based social media as often.  I always have
 DAG> to love being able to jump to a different echo and get my 'cantankerous
 DAG> a-hole' quota of the day with just a couple of keystrokes, too.  ;)

As long as you do it in the appropriate echoes...  ;)

 DAG> My issue lately seems to be more dealing with the world as it has
 DAG> progressed in the decades where I've been too plugged in for too long. 
 DAG> I think back to different eras in my life, particularly when I was
 DAG> living on some urban property in Jersey, and I remember how easy it was
 DAG> to make an entire neighborhood full of aquaintences within a really
 DAG> short number of days.  You could just walk up the hill and spend an
 DAG> afternoon doing that, with or without a case of beer to share to lube
 DAG> the communication flow, and before you knew it it was nighttime and you
 DAG> still had half of a block unexplored going in the opposite direction
 DAG> for the next day.  Maybe I'm making up the reasons for this in my head,
 DAG> but I can't help but see social media as being somewhat responsible for
 DAG> this.  People think they're a million times more plugged in to the
 DAG> happenings in others lives and the like, but if you put them all in a
 DAG> room what do they do?  They all reach for the smartphone and start
 DAG> blogging about what's going on, instead of meeting new people IRL.

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

ttyl       neb

Postscript... since originally writing this, my mom fell and broke her
hip... on the 22nd... she's doing pretty well recovering from that,
though... we brought her back home (to my sister's) yesterday, and I'm
finally able to get back to Fido, at least a little...  It does mean
that she won't be going camping with the family, though... since sites
and cabins are already rented, most of us will still go camping
anyway...      neb

... Me, indecisive?  I'm not sure about that.

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