Continuing with the missing reply... ;)  This more parenting and misc...   
      
    DAG> Well, I've got a little programming in my upbringing that I'm trying   
    DAG> to work over as far as insecurities and the like.  I think I've done   
    DAG> pretty well working to stretch into my 4th decade, though.  There is   
    DAG> also the fact that I've turned around a great many personal habits that   
    DAG> were valid points to be insecure about, as well.  While I may not be at   
    DAG> a perfet spot yet, there would be a steep climb in my rate of   
    DAG> improvement over the last 6-7 years from the background that I'd   
    DAG> previously had.  It's something to be proud of, and I suspect that that   
    DAG> rate is being kept high due to my son.  I guess what I'm trying to say   
    DAG> is I don't know if I'll ever quash them and become the Buddha, but I'm   
    DAG> doing my best at making sure that I can deal with my insecurities.   
      
   I doubt any of us would become the Buddha... but learning how to manage   
   the insecurities is probably useful enough... :)   
      
    NB>> Thank you for the well wishings...  :)  She's continuing to do better,   
    NB>> growing stronger and able to do more things independently again... we   
    NB>> still have to be there just in case, and for the stabilizing hold now   
    NB>> and then... so I'm still taking some shifts of care coverage.  When she   
    NB>> went for her followup visit to the surgeon to get the staples removed,   
    NB>> he was quite pleased with her progress, and pronounced it a success.   
    DAG> I'm very glad to hear that all went as well as can be hoped for.  :)   
       
   Progress continues, though slowly...  She always has been slow at   
   bouncing back, anyway...  Now we just have to figure out how we are   
   going to manage her care when we go camping as an extended family...   
   some will be in tents, some in cabins, so at least we aren't going to   
   have to worry about how to deal with her in a tent...   But there are   
   a few other logistics still to work out... :)   
      
    DAG> I used to spend a whole lot more time on some of those web-based   
    DAG> networks. It's taken me multiple years, but as my priorities have   
    DAG> changed I've really found that I don't want that time sink either.  I   
    DAG> find often these days that I'll wake up, and when I first get bored   
    DAG> I'll open some tabs to those different sites.  As a little bit of time   
    DAG> passes, though, or once I scroll a screenful or three, I find that I   
    DAG> could really care less about the content on there, and I don't really   
    DAG> have the motivation to add content that I really find meaningful   
    DAG> myself.  Those media seem to be the equivalent of background static to   
    DAG> me these days.  I find more and more that I'm missing a day, or two, or   
    DAG> even three, before I know it, in days that I have those tabs open and   
    DAG> sitting and waiting.    
      
   From what I've seen, there's not a lot of meaningful content... even   
   when meaningful things are being shared...    
      
    DAG> These kinds of forums, the text-based ones, I   
    DAG> don't think I'll ever totally unplug from.  There's far too much depth   
    DAG> of character and feeling that's expressed here that doesn't work its   
    DAG> way into the different web-based social media as often.  I always have   
    DAG> to love being able to jump to a different echo and get my 'cantankerous   
    DAG> a-hole' quota of the day with just a couple of keystrokes, too.  ;)   
      
   As long as you do it in the appropriate echoes...  ;)   
      
    DAG> My issue lately seems to be more dealing with the world as it has   
    DAG> progressed in the decades where I've been too plugged in for too long.    
    DAG> I think back to different eras in my life, particularly when I was   
    DAG> living on some urban property in Jersey, and I remember how easy it was   
    DAG> to make an entire neighborhood full of aquaintences within a really   
    DAG> short number of days.  You could just walk up the hill and spend an   
    DAG> afternoon doing that, with or without a case of beer to share to lube   
    DAG> the communication flow, and before you knew it it was nighttime and you   
    DAG> still had half of a block unexplored going in the opposite direction   
    DAG> for the next day.  Maybe I'm making up the reasons for this in my head,   
    DAG> but I can't help but see social media as being somewhat responsible for   
    DAG> this.  People think they're a million times more plugged in to the   
    DAG> happenings in others lives and the like, but if you put them all in a   
    DAG> room what do they do?  They all reach for the smartphone and start   
    DAG> blogging about what's going on, instead of meeting new people IRL.   
      
   You might be just a bit cynical there... but I've seen the same thing,   
   actually...  :)  It's still possible to meet one's neighbors in person,   
   but it takes more effort, and people aren't nearly so much in evidence   
   as one walks down the street anymore, either...    
      
   ttyl       neb   
      
   Postscript... since originally writing this, my mom fell and broke her   
   hip... on the 22nd... she's doing pretty well recovering from that,   
   though... we brought her back home (to my sister's) yesterday, and I'm   
   finally able to get back to Fido, at least a little...  It does mean   
   that she won't be going camping with the family, though... since sites   
   and cabins are already rented, most of us will still go camping   
   anyway...      neb   
      
   ... Me, indecisive?  I'm not sure about that.   
      
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