-=> Quoting Damon A. Getsman to Nancy Backus on 26-Sep-2015 22:12 <=-   
    DAG> By: Nancy Backus to Damon A. Getsman on Sat Aug 29 2015 18:26:16   
       
    DAG> By the way, you'll probably notice that there will be several   
    DAG> messages that I'm not responding to, at least right away. I've got a   
    DAG> _huge_ backlog, and I really pruned some of the threads that were way   
    DAG> out of date back there. They were all regarding conversational   
    DAG> tangents that things seem to keep wrapping back around to, anyway. ;)   
      
   Not a problem... As long as you keep your end of the conversation up,   
   and don't lose the important bits, that's what counts... ;) And, as   
   you've probably noticed, I've been slowly responding back, anyway... ;)   
      
    NB>> With any luck, they'll not be made of glass and shatter when you drop   
    NB>> them... Seriously, though, staying reasonably frugal makes good   
    NB>> sense... then when the inevitable down times come, one is in a better   
    NB>> position to weather them, both by practice and by not already being   
    NB>> over-extended... :)   
    DAG> Yeah. God the call of having a 5-digit bank account is screaming at   
    DAG> me lately. I really don't have very far into the 4s, either.    
    DAG> Certainly not enough to sustain for more than a month or two. That's   
    DAG> the moving fund, too.   
      
   Did all of the mess around the late etc payments finally get   
   straightened around...?    
      
    DAG> Keep your fingers crossed for more contract work to come in here.    
    DAG> I'm starting to look for more hourly stuff around here, too. Stuff   
    DAG> that hopefully I'll be able to manage; entry levelish yet still   
    DAG> interesting, hopefully.    
      
   Hopefully the contract work will pick up again quickly... :) As for   
   the hourly work, also hopefully something that will easily fit your   
   schedule around Deschain's school hours, and that isn't too far away for   
   your transportation there.....   
      
    NB>> Indeed. Unbroken bootstraps might be helpful... but those calling for   
    NB>> their use rarely supply the need... ;0   
    DAG> Well it's good that some people understand that. ;)   
      
   It's amazing and sad to me how many people don't understand that...   
       
    NB>> Shoulda been running and meditating instead of picking up the smoking,   
    NB>> after all... ;) But yeah, I hear you... :)   
    DAG> Well my body is in good enough condition now that I've been able to   
    DAG> start back with some things. Even some [very limited] muscular work on   
    DAG> my upper body, though it's weaker than I've ever trained back from   
    DAG> before. I took my 3rd run without missing any today. Forgot my   
    DAG> inhaler, though, and had an asthma attack 15 minutes out, so it didn't   
    DAG> really go as well as it could have.   
      
   Next time, remember your inhaler.. ;) But that sounds like some decent   
   progress... :)   
      
    DAG> It's a good time to drop the smokes again, you've got that part right.    
      
   Mind you, I'm speaking as a non-smoker... but with friends and family   
   that do smoke... In my experience, though, observing, the smokes never   
   really do do as much good as they are supposedly doing, and cause health   
   problems of various sorts as well...   
      
    NB>> That's part of the problem with needing meds... no way to have a more   
    NB>> reliable way of getting them than what you have now...? And probably no   
    NB>> way to build yourself a small emergency stockpile to tide you over when   
    NB>> this sort of thing happens... You'd think that the VA would recognize   
    NB>> the importance of keeping the meds stable to keep you stable...   
    DAG> Not really any way other than the VA right now, no. Like I   
    DAG> mentioned in the other message, though, this is a constant goal of   
    DAG> mine, as it is for you. I'll see what I'm able to manage.   
      
   Does talking to your VA docs do any good...? You'd think they'd have   
   some interest in keeping you stable... you'd think, anyway... ;0   
      
   ttyl neb   
      
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