Re: Re: camping  was: bbsing   
     By: Nancy Backus to Damon A. Getsman on Mon Jun 29 2015 17:58:00   
      
    NB> Those are getting almost obsolete... but I'm sure that professional   
    NB> photographers must still be using them...  :)   
      
     I'm pretty sure the 35 mm ones are obsolete by now.  It's just that I can use   
   them so much better than most of the digital ones that I've played with, and my   
   shots always come out looking spot on when I do things that way.   
      
    DAG>> amount of hours at work and been workin' on the good habits that   
    NB> Sounds reasonable to me.  :)   
      
     Well, there was another bit of a roadbump.  Another one completely out of my   
   control.  I'm going to have to find out what I can do about this.  If nothing   
   else, I need to get good enough at researching my ways out of the rabbit holes   
   that I find myself in (in the code) well enough so that I don't have to rely on   
   other people around me.  I haven't forgotten the lesson that you only give   
   someone credit for changing once they've changed, and I'm trying to make sure   
   that I don't get burned when at some point in the future my finances take   
   another hit due to others.  (Long story here, not really sure I should share   
   all of the details just yet, though I may have alluded to them before).   
      
    DAG>> It's broken up by struggling to find some more interesting things   
    DAG>> to do with my son...  Today is the day that I play catch 'n   
    DAG>> release. Wish me luck on the white knuckles of having my son out   
    DAG>> and about in this kind of area.  ;)    
    NB> Being a week or so later, how did you and he survive...?   ;)   
      
     I failed.  I went out and looked for a lot of places with him, and we weren't   
   able to turn up a single place in all of our hours out that had enough kids.    
   Or, like, _any_ free range kids.  I'm expanding the boundaries that I'm using   
   for looking in, but as mentioned before, that's got its own problems with the   
   whole scenerio, too.  Trying to remain ever optimistic, I am!   
      
    NB> For him, it was just a trip and camping... for you it was also worrying   
    NB> about how things would work out, and all the peripherals... ;)  Good   
    NB> that you can take his benefit, and apply it to your "benefit balance   
    NB> sheet"...  ;)   
      
     A fine point.   
      
    NB> There is that, too... :)  When you have more space on your own, you'd be   
    NB> able to store things better...  :)   
      
     *crosses fingers*  I was at the point where I was somewhere between 25-33% of   
   the way to being able to safely start looking at new pads, and that's all gone   
   right now because of someone else's bank 'oopsie'.  Hence the drama that I   
   alluded to above.  I know it's not that far away, and that it'll come in even   
   faster once I'm getting my next checks _and_ repaid for the outstanding balance   
   right now, but it's still frustrating as hell, if you'll pardon my lanugage.   
      
    NB> Some days, I think the military is more than a little paranoid, too...   
    NB> with or without good reason...  But what you bring to it probably has   
    NB> something to do with what you see there, as well...    
      
     I don't think I've seen a lot more places paranoid than the military was.    
   Some of the arguments you'd get into with completely geo-politically illiterate   
   people (but ready to die for the beliefs they were handed) were utterly mind   
   blowing with their logic (or lack therof).  Much like some of the arguments   
   that I've heard about the dinosaur bones being buried by God/Jesus in order to   
   test people's faith in the fact that the world is only 6000 years old...  Stuff   
   along those lines.   
     Yet if you keep your eyes open, and you're inquisitive, you'll find other   
   stuff to make you paranoid that's got wayyyyyy too much logic behind it.  It's   
   a great place to learn about what's happening behind the curtain of our media;   
   it's also a great place to lose hope in humanity and end up having to do things   
   that you'll never be able to live with [sanely] again.  I'm glad I never had to   
   do anything in the 2nd part there.   
      
    DAG>> I'm trying to make that the standard per week.  This summer could   
    DAG>> be a really good time for digging myself out of the hole that we've   
    DAG>> ended up in for a bit.    
    NB> Sounds wonderful..  ;)   I'm sure that it's a great feeling... relief,   
    NB> too...  :)   
      
     Well, wish me luck on this next week of finances.  I'm scraping bottom right   
   now again when I should be four digits in the green.  At least I had enough to   
   pay a little more against the card that I had to almost max out getting   
   treatment for my cat.  :P   
     Best wishes.   
      
     -D   
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