-=> Quoting Damon A. Getsman to Nancy Backus on 10-Mar-2015 07:02 <=-

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

 DAG> Yeah I think you spotted me in Survnet Chat, too.  ;)  As far as
 DAG> other FidoNet echoes that I post in, they vary... 

I was wondering where other tidbits of info might have been being
strewed...  :)  I wasn't positive it was you in Survnet, as you were
using an alias, but I thought I recognized your style, and your origin
line...  ;)

 DAG> If you've got any more regular or quasi-regularly active echoes that
 DAG> you'd like to suggest to me with decent discussion, throw 'em up; I
 DAG> need a few more areas to be active in. 

If you are interested in cooking or food in general, there's COOKING and
HOME_COOKING... good folks there, with overlap between the two echos..
There's also MEMORIES, where the chat tends to be more general, but
supposed to be at least generally tilted towards reminiscing... again,
good folks there... and new blood always welcome...  :)

 DAG> I guess I'm probably most active on areas involving solar/space
 DAG> weather other than the places you've already mentioned. 

There's also WX_TALK, for talking about all sorts of weather... tends to
be quiet, kinda like here... ;)  

 NB>> All right!  :)   That's very good news...  :)   Congratulations..  :)

 DAG> Hell yeah and thank you muchly.  I was steamrolled by more than one
 DAG> job in a day.  

I can well imagine...  ;)

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

It should work out just fine... and hopefully there won't be too many
horrible things in the future, either (though it doesn't hurt to have
some sort of buffer just in case)...  :)  You've got the qualifications
for the job, so you should be fine...  :)
 
 NB>> A relief, for sure... and something to fall back on... passing the
 NB>> security check is also a good sign...  :)

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

Sounds like a story behind that... ;)  I'd think, though, that if you
passed security guard certification for power plants, that would be
pretty similar to airport security requirements... 

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

 DAG> I am very much looking forward to it.  Still, without the contract
 DAG> having been signed yet, I'll admit that I'm hedging my bets a little
 DAG> bit.  It's been too long with repeated bullshit storms for me to just
 DAG> accept that this is going to be golden until I see the contract and put

Doesn't hurt to have a backup... especially since the IT job can be done
from home, and, I'd guess also, on your own schedule...?  :)

 DAG> the first few weeks of work down. I was going to take a day off from
 DAG> coding today, originally; then I thought about the work that I've got
 DAG> coming up and got right to the grind with the other projects that I'm
 DAG> working on.  ;)  Want to make sure that I'm knocking as much of that
 DAG> rust off as I can every day. 

Get that brain fine-tuned for the purpose... :)  Besides, you might have
less time for your own projects once you start the new job in earnest,
you know... ;)

 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...

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

Exactly.  Should be able to get that from the city government... maybe
even on a gov website...?  DMV (or whatever it's called there) would
have rules of the road for the roads themselves, I'd think... but might
not have anything about whether or not kids could use the sidewalk... 

 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
 NB>> by letting him make some of that sort of decisions when you are out
 NB>> riding with him, like one might with a student driver for auto
 NB>> driving lessons... :)

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

Unless you have good mirrors, and eyes in the back of your head... 
 
 NB>> Certainly is nice to see changes for the better...  even if I am
 NB>> jealous of the nice weather you guys are having... ;)

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

Sounds like you should be getting some decent economic security now,
especially if the IT job works out well, as it should... :)

ttyl      neb

... I'm not grouchy, I just don't like traffic, crowds or politicians.

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