Re: camping  was: bbsing   
     By: Nancy Backus to Damon A. Getsman on Mon May 04 2015 17:46:32   
      
    DAG>> stressful as this last campout. More of just a day to be a beach   
    DAG>> bum, maybe cook some hotfrogs, throw some recreational spheres   
    DAG>> around, all of that jazz.  ;)    
    NB> That sounds like fun... did you get to, and did he enjoy it...?   
      
     Alas, plans got pre-empted last weekend.  Not sure if we'll get a chance to   
   try again this weekend.  I'd like to do something nice for him, because there   
   was a carnival around that we were going to try to hit early this week, and   
   that fell through, too.  At least he didn't know about it; I learned from a   
   fellow parent friend not so long ago to not really inform the little guy about   
   what may be planned until it's actually going down, just in case something like   
   that comes up.  Saves on the shattered dreams for the day kind of scenerios.   
     A few fires got set on the contract work that I was doing that made keeping   
   up with the beach bumming impossible.  I ended up having to do a work crunch on   
   Sunday that blew it out of the water.  Should've tried harder to get out on   
   Saturday, I suppose, but I was busy catching up on chores most of that day.    
   Anyhoo, it will definitely be happening soon here.   
      
    NB> Something one just can't see ahead of time... and sometimes one just   
    NB> doesn't have a lot of choice in circumstances until things get more   
    NB> under control...  Hopefully you'll be able to find a better location for   
    NB> your and your son's needs and wellbeing...  :)   
      
     Well, with the hours cap on my contract just having been quadrupled, it looks   
   like I'll be able to start getting a savings account ready for a scenerio like   
   this fairly soon here.  Needless to say I'm pretty pumped about the whole   
   issue.  This paycheck to paycheck crap gets old rapidly, especially when one   
   has a charge to look after.  It may actually be time to stop just looking at   
   general neighborhoods and start looking for rentals somewhat soon here.  I'll   
   keep my fingers crossed on that.  They're only lifting the hours limit for a   
   few weeks while more fires are being put out, but I believe that after a few   
   weeks of that there may be more contracts that need some work done on them.   
      
    NB> That's a shame... so the stress was mostly just on the way there...?    
    NB> and relieved by the camping itself...?   
      
     Well it was on the way there and back.  So approximately 5 hours of shite   
   were mixed in with 3/4 of a day out in the woods, half of which was sleeping.    
   It was relieved by the camping, but then the way back was worse than the way   
   there, so it almost negated everything.  After I got back and was able to chill   
   out for awhile I think it was still a net positive, though.  If not for me, at   
   least for my son, who had a couple of other kids to play with.  They had a   
   great time, when they weren't in the van.  It was great to see him playing hard   
   nonstop with the other kids the whole time there.  Definitely something that he   
   needed.  Heck, I'd deal with a net negative as long as he was getting something   
   like that.  My old bones can take some aggravation to make sure that his   
   childhood gets as much suckiness pulled out of it as possible.  ;)   
      
    NB> Sounds like you just have to learn not to let your imagination run away   
    NB> with you...    Or move to someplace where the danger is less (or you   
    NB> don't know about the dangers [g])...   
      
     Oh definitely.  I haven't mentioned that one of my hobbies is writing   
   fiction, which normally devolves into horror sometime by the tenth page or so.    
   I've got a great imagination for that stuff and it does, definitely, get out of   
   hand sometimes.  ;)  Here is real great for the imagination, being nestled   
   cozily in between two active volcanos and on a fault like that's quite a ways   
   overdue for a magnitude 8+ quake in a city that isn't prepared for that sort of   
   tumbler what so ever.  The chances are either 30 percent for it in the next 50   
   years or 50 percent in the next 30 years.  Can't remember for sure, the   
   dyslexia is getting me.  ;)  Either way, for that magnitude of a quake it's   
   scary as hell for someone with an imagination like my own.  I just hope I'm not   
   in any sort of brick structure when that goes down, if I'm still here.   
      
    NB> It doesn't hurt to have similar threads happening in different echoes...   
    NB> there's at least a potential that way of engaging different people in   
    NB> the conversation(s)... eg Maurice is here and in Asian_Link, but not in   
    NB> Memories... and some are only in Memories...  :)   
      
     That's very true.  Didn't think about it like that.  It's nice to have   
   different people jumping in from time to time.  :)   
      
    NB> I made a habit a long time ago of saving messages to and from me (and a   
    NB> few others, on occasion) for any echo I was active in.  It just makes   
    NB> finding the information a little easier.  :)  I also save my Reply   
    NB> packets, just in case I need to re-send something... that saved me a   
    NB> number of times when I'd written out an involved genealogy message... no   
    NB> re-typing needed, just an extract and insert into a new message.  :)   
      
     I used to do that quite awhile ago, but I definitely got out of the habit.    
   The interface that I use to get on my BBS is a little bit difficult for cutting   
   'n pasting, so I think if I were to do that I'd probably try coding something   
   right into the interface that would help me deal with it a little bit easier.    
   Then again, using a QWK method like you're talking about would probably make   
   that quick 'n easy, too.   
      
     -D   
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