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     Subj: Re: Some good things going on in the land of poverty and confusion   
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   -=> Quoting Damon A. Getsman to Nancy Backus on 16-Mar-2015 21:37 <=-   
      
    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...  :)   
      
    DAG> Yeah, well the guy has a new baby in the house, so it's taking him   
    DAG> awhile to get the work out here, and it's driving me a little bit   
    DAG> batshit with the anxiety, but I know that it's something I should be   
    DAG> able to ramp up to easily enough, it's just not being able to look at   
    DAG> anything except the project issues without seeing the codebase behind   
    DAG> them that is driving me nuts.  That, and about 6 years being out of   
    DAG> actual IT work, except what I'm doing on my own time.   
    DAG> Thank you for the votes of confidence, though.  :)   
       
   New babies take a lot of energy and time, so I'm not surprised it's   
   taking him time to get things together for you... Sounds to me like an   
   exercise in patience and letting worries go...  ;)   
      
    NB>> Sounds like a story behind that... ;)  I'd think, though, that if   
    NB>> you passed security guard certification for power plants, that   
    NB>> would be pretty similar to airport security requirements...   
      
    DAG> Oh there is.  I would think they're the same, too, but it's hard to   
    DAG> know, especially when the airport has TSA and um.  Yeah you got a   
    DAG> pgp key?  *laugh*    
      
   Nah... never bothered getting one..  :)  Never really had a need for   
   it... :)  Usually have had some other reasonably secure way of talking   
   outside an echo or email...  :)   
      
    NB>> Get that brain fine-tuned for the purpose... :)  Besides, you might   
    NB>> have less time for your own projects once you start the new job in   
    NB>> earnest, you know... ;)   
      
    DAG> I'm working on it.  A med flux that I had recently destroyed my   
    DAG> ability to concentrate on left brained things very well for a few   
    DAG> days, but I think I'm over that now.     
      
   Ach... that doesn't sound good... hope it stays stable..  :)   
      
    DAG> I'm going to start making sure that I'm putting in a full 4-6 hours,   
    DAG> at least, on a daily basis, coding from now on.  I definitely need   
    DAG> to make sure that those pathways are ready to get up to speed on   
    DAG> something new.    
      
   Sounds wise..  :)   
       
    DAG> I even created a virtual server with the software that they're using   
    DAG> in order to just try learning what I can about fiddling with it   
    DAG> while I'm sitting here and waiting to start.  :)    
      
   That's sounds like a good use of time... :)  Gives you something   
   reasonably constructive to do that might be useful on the job as   
   well....  :)   
      
    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...   
      
    DAG> Yeah I'm sure they've got one.  My old city did, and that was less   
    DAG> than 70,000 people.  So I'm sure this place will have a better one.  If   
    DAG> I could just locate it now...   
      
   Look in the phone book for City Hall, and start there.... or call your   
   local branch of the library and ask there where to start... ;)  One or   
   the other should be able to at least point you in the right direction,   
   if not actually have the answers about bikes, kids and sidewalks... ;)   
       
    NB>> Sounds like you should be getting some decent economic security now,   
    NB>> especially if the IT job works out well, as it should... :)   
      
    DAG> Hell yeah.  I'm just trying to not count my chickens before they're   
    DAG> hatched, as it were.  I've had a couple of promises yanked out from   
    DAG> under the rug on me a few times here; this one is signed and sitting in   
    DAG> my lap, but it doesn't truly exist until I'm putting in hours on it, at   
    DAG> least in my head.  That's what I'm trying to do, anyway.    
      
   Signed and sitting in your lap, even without details seems pretty   
   substantial to me...  :)   
      
    DAG> Heh.  For now I'll just concentrate on the fact that on Friday I   
    DAG> start that nice minimum wage job doing work that I can handle.  It   
    DAG> won't give me economic security of that nature, but it'll help me   
    DAG> pay the bills, and that's a huge start.    
      
   And it'll take up some of that nervous energy that is getting you so   
   revved up... ;)   
      
    DAG> Sorry this took me so long to get out...  Those days of   
    DAG> fogginess took their toll on my correspondence backlogs, also. :P    
    DAG> I really hope the rest of the fog is gone by tomorrow.   
    DAG> Best wishes!   
      
   We all do have our days of fogginess...  :)  Last week (and to some   
   extent this one as well) have been rather short-circuiting for me... a   
   couple of days too full with unexpected problems, and a couple more   
   where the brain didn't quite want to function well enough to answer   
   messages... and voila... days behind...  ;0   I'm almost catching up   
   now... only a day behind now... ;)   
      
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