Re: Re: Some good things going on in the land of poverty and confusion
  By: Nancy Backus to Damon A. Getsman on Mon Mar 09 2015 16:24:54

 NB> Where besides ASIAN_LINK (and here) are you posting...?  (I think I did
 NB> spot you in Survnet chat, where I only lurk.. anywhere else...?)

  Yeah I think you spotted me in Survnet Chat, too.  ;)  As far as other
FidoNet echoes that I post in, they vary...  If you've got any more regular or
quasi-regularly active echoes that you'd like to suggest to me with decent
discussion, throw 'em up; I need a few more areas to be active in.  I guess I'm
probably most active on areas involving solar/space weather other than the
places you've already mentioned.
 
 NB> All right!  :)   That's very good news...  :)   Congratulations..  :)

  Hell yeah and thank you muchly.  I was steamrolled by more than one job in a
day.  Quite honestly I would've been steamrolled by the IT one alone, though. 
It's been since 2008 since I've worked in IT, and the pay, as compared to what
I made before, is...  Well it's at the industry normal level.  Which is more
than I've ever made before.  I'm very much looking forward to it.  I can't help
have a little bit of anxiety about it, but it's tolerable.  More than anything
I just want it to start so that I can begin ploughing through it to blow away
the insecurity and start getting enough income to not only survive but maybe
even do it comfortably and with the ability to prepare for horrible things in
the future.

 NB> A relief, for sure... and something to fall back on... passing the
 NB> security check is also a good sign...  :)

  Hell yeah.  I mean I read through the list of disqualifications and knew I
was good; I've never been felonius, and the dumb shit that I did in my youth
never really affected me on things like First Responder training, CPR
certification, security guard certification for power plants, or anything of
the sort.  Still, airports are a different beast, and that man in black that
talked to me sure as hell did scare the shit out of me.  That was almost ten
years ago now, though.  Maybe I can stop worrying about that once and for all
now...  At least until they come to put us all up against the wall.  ;)

 NB> Even better... :)   Very good news indeed...  :)

  Hell yeah.  ;)

 NB> Got your foot in the door, and looks like a good door to have started
 NB> with...  ;)

  I am very much looking forward to it.  Still, without the contract having
been signed yet, I'll admit that I'm hedging my bets a little bit.  It's been
too long with repeated bullshit storms for me to just accept that this is going
to be golden until I see the contract and put the first few weeks of work down.
I was going to take a day off from coding today, originally; then I thought
about the work that I've got coming up and got right to the grind with the
other projects that I'm working on.  ;)  Want to make sure that I'm knocking as
much of that rust off as I can every day.

 NB> You might want to check out the actual rules... while adult bike riding
 NB> is usually limited to the street, children are often allowed to ride on
 NB> the sidewalks, as they may well be safer there...  

  I've actually got to get ahold of the bike 'rules of the road' here.  It'd be
a lot less stressful if he were able to bike on the sidewalks.  He's still
having a little bit of issue with the streets.  Thanks for mentioning that, I
kind of forgot that cities even as small as the last one that I was in put
those out, so certainly there's something here.  Plus sidewalk biking for just
getting to the playground and stuff would be a hell of a lot better.

 NB> It's a balance, to be sure... :)   If he shows good judgement, and
 NB> exhibits careful watchfulness, he should be fine...  but it's a
 NB> judgement call at best..  :)  You could monitor his judgement etc by
 NB> letting him make some of that sort of decisions when you are out riding
 NB> with him, like one might with a student driver for auto driving
 NB> lessons... :)

  Yeah, I think that the next time I go out with him I'm going to be letting
him direct the ride, now that you mention it.  I've probably been giving him a
bit too much of a sheltered environment to this point.  ;)  Plus it's a lot
harder to keep out a good eye for things that may be going wrong when riding in
front.

 NB> Certainly is nice to see changes for the better...  even if I am jealous
 NB> of the nice weather you guys are having... ;)

  Hehe.  I'll trade you some weather for economic security?  Well, hopefully I
won't need to much longer, but still, with my past few years, I'll take a few
months of crap just to be sure.  ;)

  -D
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