Re: Re: Some good things going on in the land of poverty and confusion   
     By: Nancy Backus to Damon A. Getsman on Fri Mar 13 2015 16:00:14   
      
    NB> I was wondering where other tidbits of info might have been being   
    NB> strewed...  :)  I wasn't positive it was you in Survnet, as you were   
    NB> using an alias, but I thought I recognized your style, and your origin   
    NB> line...  ;)   
      
     Yeah I used to bother to try to keep the alias and the real name separate,   
   but that little security thing that had me concerned...  Well I learned as a   
   result of that that bothering to try to keep those profiles separated was   
   pretty much doomed to failure, so why bother.  I've learned to not quite be so   
   loose with my flapping gums now, though.   
     I've been accused of distinctive style before.  ;)   
       
    NB> If you are interested in cooking or food in general, there's COOKING and   
    NB> HOME_COOKING... good folks there, with overlap between the two echos..   
    NB> There's also MEMORIES, where the chat tends to be more general, but   
    NB> supposed to be at least generally tilted towards reminiscing... again,   
    NB> good folks there... and new blood always welcome...  :)   
      
     I will actually have to add those *scrawls in the to-do notebook as the RAM   
   on the computer is swapping badly already*.  I need to find some recipies that   
   incorporate more veggies that my son will eat sometime soon here before his   
   growth gets stunted from munching on nothing but carbs when I'm not looking.    
   The diabeetus could be strong in this one!  Gotta try to steer him away from   
   that.  A little bit of reminiscing might not be the worst idea, so long as I   
   stay on the beaten path, too.  *grin*   
       
    NB> There's also WX_TALK, for talking about all sorts of weather... tends to   
    NB> be quiet, kinda like here... ;)     
      
     Oh I'm active there every now and then.  At least I think I am.  If nothing   
   else I read.  I post bits about solar activity being tied to weather in one of   
   the echoes, can't remember for sure if it's that one or not.   
      
    NB> It should work out just fine... and hopefully there won't be too many   
    NB> horrible things in the future, either (though it doesn't hurt to have   
    NB> some sort of buffer just in case)...  :)  You've got the qualifications   
    NB> for the job, so you should be fine...  :)   
      
     Yeah, well the guy has a new baby in the house, so it's taking him awhile to   
   get the work out here, and it's driving me a little bit batshit with the   
   anxiety, but I know that it's something I should be able to ramp up to easily   
   enough, it's just not being able to look at anything except the project issues   
   without seeing the codebase behind them that is driving me nuts.  That, and   
   about 6 years being out of actual IT work, except what I'm doing on my own   
   time.   
     Thank you for the votes of confidence, though.  :)   
      
    NB> Sounds like a story behind that... ;)  I'd think, though, that if you   
    NB> passed security guard certification for power plants, that would be   
    NB> pretty similar to airport security requirements...    
      
     Oh there is.   
     I would think they're the same, too, but it's hard to know, especially when   
   the airport has TSA and um.  Yeah you got a pgp key?  *laugh*   
      
    NB> Doesn't hurt to have a backup... especially since the IT job can be done   
    NB> from home, and, I'd guess also, on your own schedule...?  :)   
      
     It is from home, and on my own schedule.  If the damn work will just start   
   coming in I'll have my dreamjob sitting right in front of me.  ;)   
      
    NB> Get that brain fine-tuned for the purpose... :)  Besides, you might have   
    NB> less time for your own projects once you start the new job in earnest,   
    NB> you know... ;)   
      
     I'm working on it.  A med flux that I had recently destroyed my ability to   
   concentrate on left brained things very well for a few days, but I think I'm   
   over that now.  I'm going to start making sure that I'm putting in a full 4-6   
   hours, at least, on a daily basis, coding from now on.  I definitely need to   
   make sure that those pathways are ready to get up to speed on something new.  I   
   even created a virtual server with the software that they're using in order to   
   just try learning what I can about fiddling with it while I'm sitting here and   
   waiting to start.  :)   
      
    NB> Exactly.  Should be able to get that from the city government... maybe   
    NB> even on a gov website...?  DMV (or whatever it's called there) would   
    NB> have rules of the road for the roads themselves, I'd think... but might   
    NB> not have anything about whether or not kids could use the sidewalk...    
      
     Yeah I'm sure they've got one.  My old city did, and that was less than   
   70,000 people.  So I'm sure this place will have a better one.  If I could just   
   locate it now...   
      
    NB> Sounds like you should be getting some decent economic security now,   
    NB> especially if the IT job works out well, as it should... :)   
      
     Hell yeah.  I'm just trying to not count my chickens before they're hatched,   
   as it were.  I've had a couple of promises yanked out from under the rug on me   
   a few times here; this one is signed and sitting in my lap, but it doesn't   
   truly exist until I'm putting in hours on it, at least in my head.  That's what   
   I'm trying to do, anyway.  Heh.  For now I'll just concentrate on the fact that   
   on Friday I start that nice minimum wage job doing work that I can handle.  It   
   won't give me economic security of that nature, but it'll help me pay the   
   bills, and that's a huge start.   
     Sorry this took me so long to get out...  Those days of fogginess took their   
   toll on my correspondence backlogs, also.  :P  I really hope the rest of the   
   fog is gone by tomorrow.   
     Best wishes!   
      
     -Damon   
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