-=> Quoting Damon A. Getsman to Nancy Backus on 01-May-2015 09:34 <=-   
      
   Continuing... the last was getting too long...     
       
    NB>> We get that, too... nothing but rain in the forecast, but look out the   
    NB>> window and there's sun and maybe some clouds...  ;)   
    DAG> Heh.  It's been a lot nicer around here lately.  Got a nice trip to   
    DAG> the river beach planned here for this weekend, if all works out.  I   
    DAG> want my son and I to be outside for awhile, but nothing quite so   
    DAG> stressful as this last campout. More of just a day to be a beach bum,   
    DAG> maybe cook some hotfrogs, throw some recreational spheres around, all   
    DAG> of that jazz.  ;)    
      
   That sounds like fun... did you get to, and did he enjoy it...?   
      
    NB>> Sounds perfect.  :)  Most of our large parks are outside the city limits,   
    NB>> but it's not that large a city anyway... and there's lots of woodland   
    NB>> and green space around... :)   
    DAG> I definitely miss a less urban setting right now.  Hopefully this   
    DAG> contract work helps me fill the coffers soon enough here that I can   
    DAG> save my kittie's life and then get ready to relocate to an area where   
    DAG> he'll have more kids around, more space to play, and not quite so many   
    DAG> yuppies packed in like sardines.  :)  Not that I mind them in the   
    DAG> slightest, hell I aspire to be one, though the 'y' part might not apply   
    DAG> to me any more.  The lack of kids, though, and the fact that kids   
    DAG> wandering to the park alone in this area are subject to sheltered   
    DAG> dipshits calling them in to the cops, leaves quite a bit to be desired.   
    DAG> Didn't really forsee that in the cards when I moved here.    
      
   Something one just can't see ahead of time... and sometimes one just   
   doesn't have a lot of choice in circumstances until things get more   
   under control...  Hopefully you'll be able to find a better location for   
   your and your son's needs and wellbeing...  :)   
      
    NB>> So, did you do your camping trip, yet...?   I sure hear you on the cabin   
    NB>> fever part, certainly is the season when it really is time to get back   
    NB>> out and doing again...  :)   
    DAG> Sure did.  It was a lot more stressful than it could've been, due to   
    DAG> some issues with other people's children on the way, but all in all it   
    DAG> was a good experience, and I'd still call it a net positive.   
      
   That's a shame... so the stress was mostly just on the way there...?    
   and relieved by the camping itself...?   
      
    DAG> I need to   
    DAG> get some of the pictures off of my phone and up onto a site somewhere   
    DAG> where I can share them, no doubt.  It was absolutely beautiful setting,   
    DAG> although I'll admit I was haunted that night trying to sleep due to   
    DAG> proximity to Mt. St. Helens and the subsurface geology of the area.  ;)   
      
   Sounds like you just have to learn not to let your imagination run away   
   with you...    Or move to someplace where the danger is less (or you   
   don't know about the dangers [g])...   
      
    NB>> As far as I could tell, this was the first reply to this... ;)  I did go   
    NB>> back and check my saved messages, to be sure... and to make sure that I   
    NB>> hadn't answered it back already...  ;)  I think part of it is that we   
    NB>> are having similar threads in three different echoes at the moment.. ;)   
    DAG> It's nice to have an archivist in the threads.  ;)  That's on my   
    DAG> list of things to do, also...  Time is such a horribly limiting   
    DAG> quantity, though.  I suspect that you are very much right in the bit   
    DAG> about the similar threads. Perhaps at some point I'll go through and   
    DAG> consolidate here.  That may well fall back onto the 'load-shedding   
    DAG> pile', as my roommate so aptly puts it, though. ;)   
      
   It doesn't hurt to have similar threads happening in different echoes...   
   there's at least a potential that way of engaging different people in   
   the conversation(s)... eg Maurice is here and in Asian_Link, but not in   
   Memories... and some are only in Memories...  :)   
      
   I made a habit a long time ago of saving messages to and from me (and a   
   few others, on occasion) for any echo I was active in.  It just makes   
   finding the information a little easier.  :)  I also save my Reply   
   packets, just in case I need to re-send something... that saved me a   
   number of times when I'd written out an involved genealogy message... no   
   re-typing needed, just an extract and insert into a new message.  :)   
      
   ttyl        neb   
      
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