-=> Quoting Damon A. Getsman to Nancy Backus on 10-Mar-2015 07:02 <=-   
      
    NB>> Where besides ASIAN_LINK (and here) are you posting...?  (I think I   
    NB>> did spot you in Survnet chat, where I only lurk.. anywhere else...?)   
      
    DAG> Yeah I think you spotted me in Survnet Chat, too.  ;)  As far as   
    DAG> other FidoNet echoes that I post in, they vary...    
      
   I was wondering where other tidbits of info might have been being   
   strewed...  :)  I wasn't positive it was you in Survnet, as you were   
   using an alias, but I thought I recognized your style, and your origin   
   line...  ;)   
      
    DAG> If you've got any more regular or quasi-regularly active echoes that   
    DAG> you'd like to suggest to me with decent discussion, throw 'em up; I   
    DAG> need a few more areas to be active in.    
      
   If you are interested in cooking or food in general, there's COOKING and   
   HOME_COOKING... good folks there, with overlap between the two echos..   
   There's also MEMORIES, where the chat tends to be more general, but   
   supposed to be at least generally tilted towards reminiscing... again,   
   good folks there... and new blood always welcome...  :)   
      
    DAG> I guess I'm probably most active on areas involving solar/space   
    DAG> weather other than the places you've already mentioned.    
      
   There's also WX_TALK, for talking about all sorts of weather... tends to   
   be quiet, kinda like here... ;)     
      
    NB>> All right!  :)   That's very good news...  :)   Congratulations..  :)   
      
    DAG> Hell yeah and thank you muchly.  I was steamrolled by more than one   
    DAG> job in a day.     
      
   I can well imagine...  ;)   
      
    DAG> Quite honestly I would've been steamrolled by the IT one alone,   
    DAG> though. It's been since 2008 since I've worked in IT, and the pay,   
    DAG> as compared to what I made before, is...  Well it's at the industry   
    DAG> normal level.  Which is more than I've ever made before.  I'm very   
    DAG> much looking forward to it.  I can't help have a little bit of   
    DAG> anxiety about it, but it's tolerable.  More than anything I just want   
    DAG> it to start so that I can begin ploughing through it to blow away the   
    DAG> insecurity and start getting enough income to not only survive but   
    DAG> maybe even do it comfortably and with the ability to prepare for   
    DAG> horrible things in the future.   
      
   It should work out just fine... and hopefully there won't be too many   
   horrible things in the future, either (though it doesn't hurt to have   
   some sort of buffer just in case)...  :)  You've got the qualifications   
   for the job, so you should be fine...  :)   
       
    NB>> A relief, for sure... and something to fall back on... passing the   
    NB>> security check is also a good sign...  :)   
      
    DAG> Hell yeah.  I mean I read through the list of disqualifications and   
    DAG> knew I was good; I've never been felonius, and the dumb shit that I did   
    DAG> in my youth never really affected me on things like First Responder   
    DAG> training, CPR certification, security guard certification for power   
    DAG> plants, or anything of the sort.  Still, airports are a different   
    DAG> beast, and that man in black that talked to me sure as hell did scare   
    DAG> the shit out of me.  That was almost ten years ago now, though.  Maybe   
    DAG> I can stop worrying about that once and for all now...  At least until   
    DAG> they come to put us all up against the wall.  ;)    
      
   Sounds like a story behind that... ;)  I'd think, though, that if you   
   passed security guard certification for power plants, that would be   
   pretty similar to airport security requirements...    
      
    NB>> Got your foot in the door, and looks like a good door to have started   
    NB>> with...  ;)   
      
    DAG> I am very much looking forward to it.  Still, without the contract   
    DAG> having been signed yet, I'll admit that I'm hedging my bets a little   
    DAG> bit.  It's been too long with repeated bullshit storms for me to just   
    DAG> accept that this is going to be golden until I see the contract and put   
      
   Doesn't hurt to have a backup... especially since the IT job can be done   
   from home, and, I'd guess also, on your own schedule...?  :)   
      
    DAG> the first few weeks of work down. I was going to take a day off from   
    DAG> coding today, originally; then I thought about the work that I've got   
    DAG> coming up and got right to the grind with the other projects that I'm   
    DAG> working on.  ;)  Want to make sure that I'm knocking as much of that   
    DAG> rust off as I can every day.    
      
   Get that brain fine-tuned for the purpose... :)  Besides, you might have   
   less time for your own projects once you start the new job in earnest,   
   you know... ;)   
      
    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...   
      
    DAG> I've actually got to get ahold of the bike 'rules of the road' here.   
    DAG> It'd be a lot less stressful if he were able to bike on the sidewalks.   
    DAG> He's still having a little bit of issue with the streets.  Thanks for   
    DAG> mentioning that, I kind of forgot that cities even as small as the last   
    DAG> one that I was in put those out, so certainly there's something here.    
    DAG> Plus sidewalk biking for just getting to the playground and stuff would   
    DAG> be a hell of a lot better.    
      
   Exactly.  Should be able to get that from the city government... maybe   
   even on a gov website...?  DMV (or whatever it's called there) would   
   have rules of the road for the roads themselves, I'd think... but might   
   not have anything about whether or not kids could use the sidewalk...    
      
    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   
    NB>> by letting him make some of that sort of decisions when you are out   
    NB>> riding with him, like one might with a student driver for auto   
    NB>> driving lessons... :)   
      
    DAG> Yeah, I think that the next time I go out with him I'm going to be   
    DAG> letting him direct the ride, now that you mention it.  I've probably   
    DAG> been giving him a bit too much of a sheltered environment to this   
    DAG> point.  ;)  Plus it's a lot harder to keep out a good eye for things   
    DAG> that may be going wrong when riding in front.   
      
   Unless you have good mirrors, and eyes in the back of your head...    
       
    NB>> Certainly is nice to see changes for the better...  even if I am   
    NB>> jealous of the nice weather you guys are having... ;)   
      
    DAG> Hehe.  I'll trade you some weather for economic security?  Well,   
    DAG> hopefully I won't need to much longer, but still, with my past few   
    DAG> years, I'll take a few months of crap just to be sure.  ;)   
      
   Sounds like you should be getting some decent economic security now,   
   especially if the IT job works out well, as it should... :)   
      
   ttyl      neb   
      
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