-=> Quoting Damon A. Getsman to Nancy Backus on 14-Aug-2015 19:27 <=-   
      
    NB>> Yeah... he probably has his time and his hands full...  :)  And it   
    NB>> sounds like, like my massage therapist, it's a one-person show...  Her   
    NB>> personal phone is her business phone, and there's nobody but herself to   
    NB>> handle phone calls, etc, along with the business itself... :)   
    DAG> That's what I'm guessing.  Right now I'm dealing with the fact that   
    DAG> I'm behind in invoicing to the tune of around ~$2000, so that's holding   
    DAG> me back again here.  I really need to learn how to do the invoicing   
    DAG> myself so that I'm not relying on anybody else, especially anybody that   
    DAG> doesn't have the will to get up and breathe, let alone make money or   
    DAG> keep stable a place to stay.    
      
   Yeah, learning to do the invoicing yourself sounds like a very good   
   idea... even if you weren't having to deal with someone else's   
   issues... :)   
      
    NB>> And then, hopefully, the Aikido will continue into the school year...?   
    DAG> Well the Aikido is something that I plan to do permanently.  As far   
    DAG> as Deschain, I'd like him to at least get to a point where it'd help   
    DAG> him if he's getting physically attacked.  It'd be really cool if he'd   
    DAG> like to stay in it long enough so that we could do it as a bonding   
    DAG> thing into the teen years and all, though.  :)   
      
   If he likes it enough...  :)   
      
    NB>> Yeah... the bit at a time is probably a good strategy... can be done   
    NB>> sooner than later... and yup, you'll need to do something when the kid   
    NB>> goes back to school...  :)   
    DAG> Yeah.  I've got tasks and different things piled up left and right.    
    DAG> I need to start prioritizing some sort of a list again.  It'll be so   
    DAG> much easier to catch back up with a lot of this stuff once he's in   
    DAG> school again.  God that's less than 2 weeks now.  They had an   
    DAG> extraordinarily short summer.    
      
   Or at least it seems like it now...   :)   When does school start out   
   where you are...?  Here it's the day or so after Labor Day...   
      
    DAG>>>> I think I found another community center that we'll be able to   
    NB>> And you'll be able to use the information later, even if it turns out   
    NB>> not to be needed at the moment...  :)  Or it might be just the thing to   
    NB>> get you both through the tail end of summer... :)   
    DAG> Not sure we'll make it before that, but it's a goal to get to as   
    DAG> soon as humanly possible.  If my meds stabilize enough for me to be   
    DAG> more comfortable going out in public and engaging in conversation I'll   
    DAG> probably get him there before school; otherwise it is definitely a   
    DAG> resource for the future.    
      
   Even just having it as a resource for the future is a good thing... :)   
      
    NB>> Or take in an adult cat and promise the kitten for next summer...  ;)   
    NB>> Or get a small stuffed animal or two in the interim, one for each of   
    NB>> you, perhaps... ;)   
      
    DAG> Well there are 2 more cats living in this 1 bedroom apartment.  I   
    DAG> think that's out of the question for now, at least for the living ones.   
      
   So he can at least maybe transfer some attention to the other cats   
   there...  :)   
      
    DAG> Maybe some stuffed ones soon here...  I know Deschain's already got   
    DAG> some holed up somewhere here, but I need one for myself, too.  Too bad   
    DAG> they don't have any that knead lightly and rattle at you adoringly   
    DAG> while squinting into your eyes.    
      
   Probably there's some sort of robot cat that does... but those are   
   probably rather expensive...  ;)  You'll just have to imagine the   
   kneading and the rattle... and squint back into the glass eyes of the   
   stuffed one...     
      
   ttyl        neb   
      
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