Re: Re: Some good things going on in the land of poverty and confusion   
     By: Nancy Backus to Damon A. Getsman on Mon Mar 09 2015 16:24:54   
      
    NB> Where besides ASIAN_LINK (and here) are you posting...?  (I think I did   
    NB> spot you in Survnet chat, where I only lurk.. anywhere else...?)   
      
     Yeah I think you spotted me in Survnet Chat, too.  ;)  As far as other   
   FidoNet echoes that I post in, they vary...  If you've got any more regular or   
   quasi-regularly active echoes that you'd like to suggest to me with decent   
   discussion, throw 'em up; I need a few more areas to be active in.  I guess I'm   
   probably most active on areas involving solar/space weather other than the   
   places you've already mentioned.   
       
    NB> All right!  :)   That's very good news...  :)   Congratulations..  :)   
      
     Hell yeah and thank you muchly.  I was steamrolled by more than one job in a   
   day.  Quite honestly I would've been steamrolled by the IT one alone, though.    
   It's been since 2008 since I've worked in IT, and the pay, as compared to what   
   I made before, is...  Well it's at the industry normal level.  Which is more   
   than I've ever made before.  I'm very much looking forward to it.  I can't help   
   have a little bit of anxiety about it, but it's tolerable.  More than anything   
   I just want it to start so that I can begin ploughing through it to blow away   
   the insecurity and start getting enough income to not only survive but maybe   
   even do it comfortably and with the ability to prepare for horrible things in   
   the future.   
      
    NB> A relief, for sure... and something to fall back on... passing the   
    NB> security check is also a good sign...  :)   
      
     Hell yeah.  I mean I read through the list of disqualifications and knew I   
   was good; I've never been felonius, and the dumb shit that I did in my youth   
   never really affected me on things like First Responder training, CPR   
   certification, security guard certification for power plants, or anything of   
   the sort.  Still, airports are a different beast, and that man in black that   
   talked to me sure as hell did scare the shit out of me.  That was almost ten   
   years ago now, though.  Maybe I can stop worrying about that once and for all   
   now...  At least until they come to put us all up against the wall.  ;)   
      
    NB> Even better... :)   Very good news indeed...  :)   
      
     Hell yeah.  ;)   
      
    NB> Got your foot in the door, and looks like a good door to have started   
    NB> with...  ;)   
      
     I am very much looking forward to it.  Still, without the contract having   
   been signed yet, I'll admit that I'm hedging my bets a little bit.  It's been   
   too long with repeated bullshit storms for me to just accept that this is going   
   to be golden until I see the contract and put the first few weeks of work down.   
   I was going to take a day off from coding today, originally; then I thought   
   about the work that I've got coming up and got right to the grind with the   
   other projects that I'm working on.  ;)  Want to make sure that I'm knocking as   
   much of that rust off as I can every day.   
      
    NB> You might want to check out the actual rules... while adult bike riding   
    NB> is usually limited to the street, children are often allowed to ride on   
    NB> the sidewalks, as they may well be safer there...     
      
     I've actually got to get ahold of the bike 'rules of the road' here.  It'd be   
   a lot less stressful if he were able to bike on the sidewalks.  He's still   
   having a little bit of issue with the streets.  Thanks for mentioning that, I   
   kind of forgot that cities even as small as the last one that I was in put   
   those out, so certainly there's something here.  Plus sidewalk biking for just   
   getting to the playground and stuff would be a hell of a lot better.   
      
    NB> It's a balance, to be sure... :)   If he shows good judgement, and   
    NB> exhibits careful watchfulness, he should be fine...  but it's a   
    NB> judgement call at best..  :)  You could monitor his judgement etc by   
    NB> letting him make some of that sort of decisions when you are out riding   
    NB> with him, like one might with a student driver for auto driving   
    NB> lessons... :)   
      
     Yeah, I think that the next time I go out with him I'm going to be letting   
   him direct the ride, now that you mention it.  I've probably been giving him a   
   bit too much of a sheltered environment to this point.  ;)  Plus it's a lot   
   harder to keep out a good eye for things that may be going wrong when riding in   
   front.   
      
    NB> Certainly is nice to see changes for the better...  even if I am jealous   
    NB> of the nice weather you guys are having... ;)   
      
     Hehe.  I'll trade you some weather for economic security?  Well, hopefully I   
   won't need to much longer, but still, with my past few years, I'll take a few   
   months of crap just to be sure.  ;)   
      
     -D   
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