-=> Quoting Damon A. Getsman to Nancy Backus on 08-Apr-2015 17:17 <=-   
      
    NB>> Trying again to re-send this one... the second half of the response   
    NB>> to the original message...   Once again, I'm running about a week   
    NB>> behind...!   
    DAG> Yeah I don't think I ever saw this one originally...  If I did I   
    DAG> must've been horribly sleep deprived or something.  Didn't ring any   
    DAG> bells.    
      
   When I first sent the original one, you might have been running on a   
   sleep deprivation... I'm pretty sure that it was making it round at   
   least the bbses I call...  Possibly didn't make it to the west coast,   
   though...    
      
    NB>> New babies take a lot of energy and time, so I'm not surprised it's   
    NB>> taking him time to get things together for you... Sounds to me like   
    NB>> an exercise in patience and letting worries go...  ;)   
    DAG> Yeah it turned out that he'd been way slammed with all of that, much   
    DAG> like I suspected.  Though it has made me a bit leary of relying solely   
    DAG> on this one mode of income.     
      
   Now that you are clearly on the project and supplying input, likely   
   there wouldn't be too many glitches in the work showing up... but, true,   
   it's always safer not to put all the eggs in one basket...  :)   
      
    DAG> I've got that handled, though, so it's all good.  It was, indeed,   
    DAG> good practice in making sure that I'm still doing what I need to in   
    DAG> order to make ends meet either which way.  An exercise in letting go   
    DAG> of the things that I cannot change, and a bit of courage in knowing   
    DAG> the difference, if I may insert a bit of serenity prayer wisdom.  ;)    
      
   That's pretty much always appropriate, in my view... :)   
      
    DAG>> know, especially when the airport has TSA and um.  Yeah you got a   
    DAG>> pgp key?  *laugh*   
    NB>> Nah... never bothered getting one..  :)  Never really had a need for   
    NB>> it... :)  Usually have had some other reasonably secure way of talking   
    NB>> outside an echo or email...  :)   
      
    DAG> Eh, I was mostly joking with that point, anyway.  ;)  Some stories   
    DAG> don't need any retelling.  Indeed it may be, at times, that in one's   
    DAG> best interests it may be a good idea not to do so.  ;)     
      
   Oh, I figured you were mostly joking...     
      
    DAG> That being said, I do advocate encryption for even the most mundane   
    DAG> things, as it provides, hopefully, a little bit more headache and   
    DAG> pain in the ass for the powers that be with their long microphones   
    DAG> and wiretaps.  If it's implemented properly, anyway, which is tough   
    DAG> in today's age of completely pwned hardware.    
      
   I've not bothered...  I figure that the ones that it might actually   
   matter for (if there were anything to worry about in what I was saying)   
   would probably not find most encryption much of a hassle anyway, and it   
   would end up only being a hassle to the ones that I might be sending the   
   mail to...  It's certainly a hassle to me when I get something encrypted   
   that my software doesn't know how to decode...   
      
    DAG> Yeah my meds have been stable since that last little [tiny] burp.    
    DAG> Wasn't nearly as bad as last time, and didn't throw me for a huge   
    DAG> loop. I'm able to concentrate a little better now.  I was worried   
    DAG> about how it was going until I actually pushed out some contract   
    DAG> work today.  Now I've got the proof that I'm able to concentrate on   
    DAG> things well again.  ;)    
      
   That sounds promising...  :)    And certainly reassuring...  :)   
      
    DAG> Looking forward to actually getting my nose to the grindstone on   
    DAG> things a little bit more later tonight, as well.  First I have to help   
    DAG> my son with a speech, though, and I do believe he requires my   
    DAG> assistance on a few other things, as well...  If not tonight, I'll   
    DAG> probably be getting up to 'burn the early morning oil' around 3 or so   
    DAG> tomorrow morning, when I concentrate best.  I need to push out at least   
    DAG> a few more hours on this real quick and start a flow.   
      
   You sound psyched... ;)  I'm sure that your son appreciated your help,   
   too.. ;)    
       
    DAG> I'd been slacking for a bit there; felt some burnout so I took a   
    DAG> couple of days off.  Today has been productive, though, and I think   
    DAG> I've got a schedule that'll allow me to devote enough non-burnout time   
    DAG> to it so that I'll keep the ball rolling at this point.  ;)   
      
   Sounds good..   How are things going now...?   
       
    DAG> Today I got to get my feet wet to a point where yeah, I know I can   
    DAG> get back in the groove again, despite my time away from IT, and I'm   
    DAG> certain that I can handle this work.  It was self-doubt, I think,   
    DAG> that was giving me the most problems, after the amount of time that   
    DAG> I'd spent away from IT on anything other than minor sysadmin stuff   
    DAG> and coding in strictly one language on my own project.    
      
   It's easy to get the jitters when you've been out of the field for a   
   while...  Now you can see that you'll be doing fine, after all.. :)   
      
    NB>> Look in the phone book for City Hall, and start there.... or call your   
    NB>> local branch of the library and ask there where to start... ;)  One or   
    NB>> the other should be able to at least point you in the right direction,   
    NB>> if not actually have the answers about bikes, kids and sidewalks... ;)   
      
    DAG> I still have yet to do this.  I've been asking around, though, and   
    DAG> it seems that perhaps it's not illegal in this portion of the city to   
    DAG> be letting my son (and even myself) bike on the sidewalks.  This is   
    DAG> very good news.  Traffic around here gets pretty hectic when workday   
    DAG> traffic is about.    
      
   That is good news..  It probably would be good to get it nailed down for   
   certain, but if others are right, that's already a relief...  :)   
      
    NB>> Signed and sitting in your lap, even without details seems pretty   
    NB>> substantial to me...  :)   
    DAG> Oh, it was.  I've just gotten in the habit of not counting my   
    DAG> chickens before they're hatched to the point where I refused to let   
    DAG> myself count on it.  So I was still fulminating a bit about the lack of   
    DAG> being able to work in my chosen field and everything.  Now, though, I'm   
    DAG> immersed in discussion with the other developers, and we're steadily   
    DAG> chipping away at some problems, even while they're being prioritized   
    DAG> and moved around a bit.  It's not nearly so bad now that I've gotten to   
    DAG> the admin panel and been able to examine the layout of the project a   
    DAG> lot more.  :)  I even got some billable hours in.  ;)    
      
   Sounds quite good...  :)   
      
    NB>> And it'll take up some of that nervous energy that is getting you so   
    NB>> revved up... ;)   
    DAG> It does help quite a bit for that.  Now that I've got what should be   
    DAG> a good balance between the different things going on I'm pretty   
    DAG> confident that I'll be able to keep my nervous energy to a minimum.  I   
    DAG> do need to work on making sure that I'm getting out for a bike ride or   
    DAG> something between my running days, though.  I'm so used to being able   
    DAG> to work on my upper body and other areas on my running 'off' days so   
    DAG> that I can burn out some of that energy.  Just got a tire repaired on   
    DAG> my bike, so it's definitely time to start putting some new miles on it.   
    DAG> ;)    
      
   That sounds promising, too...  :)   
      
    NB>> We all do have our days of fogginess...  :)  Last week (and to some   
    NB>> extent this one as well) have been rather short-circuiting for me... a   
    NB>> couple of days too full with unexpected problems, and a couple more   
    NB>> where the brain didn't quite want to function well enough to answer   
    NB>> messages... and voila... days behind...  ;0   I'm almost catching up   
    NB>> now... only a day behind now... ;)   
    DAG> What worries me at times is that it seems to go in stretches.    
    DAG> Definitely when I'm battling issues with my meds.  That doesn't seem to   
    DAG> be the case now, though, as proven by a day of successful work, so all   
    DAG> is good on my front. I hear you on the short-circuited times.  That's   
    DAG> why my correspondence has been up and down a bit lately, too.  At least   
    DAG> it's not due to massive technical hardware failure or anything of the   
    DAG> like this time.  ;) I even managed to get a huge bite out of my   
    DAG> standard email taken care of.     
      
   As long as the short-circuitings can be gotten past, you should be doing   
   just fine... ;)     
      
    DAG> As you can tell (and probably share in   
    DAG> common with me), I write pretty verbose messages in my correspondence.    
    DAG> So when I'm feeling too drained by life, work, or whatever, my inbox   
    DAG> piles up a bit.     
      
   I try not to be TOO verbose... but sometimes there just is a lot to   
   say...  ;)    And I see that this one got fairly long again...  oh,   
   well... ;)   
      
    DAG> I had quite the backlog in there... Managed to get   
    DAG> through all of it except for one last message that needs to be written   
    DAG> now, though, and I even managed to get a few messages out on one of   
    DAG> those dating sites.  ;)    
      
   Sounds good..  ;)   
      
    DAG> Best wishes and hope you're doing well and out of the fog!    
      
   Mostly out of the fog at the moment... but am about to be off on a trip   
   for most of next week, so I'm sure I'll be way behind again, even though   
   I'm just about caught up for the moment...  ;)   
      
   ttyl       neb   
      
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