Re: Re: Some good things going on in the land of poverty and confusion
  By: Nancy Backus to Damon A. Getsman on Fri Mar 13 2015 16:00:14

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

  Yeah I used to bother to try to keep the alias and the real name separate,
but that little security thing that had me concerned...  Well I learned as a
result of that that bothering to try to keep those profiles separated was
pretty much doomed to failure, so why bother.  I've learned to not quite be so
loose with my flapping gums now, though.
  I've been accused of distinctive style before.  ;)
 
 NB> If you are interested in cooking or food in general, there's COOKING and
 NB> HOME_COOKING... good folks there, with overlap between the two echos..
 NB> There's also MEMORIES, where the chat tends to be more general, but
 NB> supposed to be at least generally tilted towards reminiscing... again,
 NB> good folks there... and new blood always welcome...  :)

  I will actually have to add those *scrawls in the to-do notebook as the RAM
on the computer is swapping badly already*.  I need to find some recipies that
incorporate more veggies that my son will eat sometime soon here before his
growth gets stunted from munching on nothing but carbs when I'm not looking. 
The diabeetus could be strong in this one!  Gotta try to steer him away from
that.  A little bit of reminiscing might not be the worst idea, so long as I
stay on the beaten path, too.  *grin*
 
 NB> There's also WX_TALK, for talking about all sorts of weather... tends to
 NB> be quiet, kinda like here... ;)  

  Oh I'm active there every now and then.  At least I think I am.  If nothing
else I read.  I post bits about solar activity being tied to weather in one of
the echoes, can't remember for sure if it's that one or not.

 NB> It should work out just fine... and hopefully there won't be too many
 NB> horrible things in the future, either (though it doesn't hurt to have
 NB> some sort of buffer just in case)...  :)  You've got the qualifications
 NB> for the job, so you should be fine...  :)

  Yeah, well the guy has a new baby in the house, so it's taking him awhile to
get the work out here, and it's driving me a little bit batshit with the
anxiety, but I know that it's something I should be able to ramp up to easily
enough, it's just not being able to look at anything except the project issues
without seeing the codebase behind them that is driving me nuts.  That, and
about 6 years being out of actual IT work, except what I'm doing on my own
time.
  Thank you for the votes of confidence, though.  :)

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

  Oh there is.
  I would think they're the same, too, but it's hard to know, especially when
the airport has TSA and um.  Yeah you got a pgp key?  *laugh*

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

  It is from home, and on my own schedule.  If the damn work will just start
coming in I'll have my dreamjob sitting right in front of me.  ;)

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

  I'm working on it.  A med flux that I had recently destroyed my ability to
concentrate on left brained things very well for a few days, but I think I'm
over that now.  I'm going to start making sure that I'm putting in a full 4-6
hours, at least, on a daily basis, coding from now on.  I definitely need to
make sure that those pathways are ready to get up to speed on something new.  I
even created a virtual server with the software that they're using in order to
just try learning what I can about fiddling with it while I'm sitting here and
waiting to start.  :)

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

  Yeah I'm sure they've got one.  My old city did, and that was less than
70,000 people.  So I'm sure this place will have a better one.  If I could just
locate it now...

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

  Hell yeah.  I'm just trying to not count my chickens before they're hatched,
as it were.  I've had a couple of promises yanked out from under the rug on me
a few times here; this one is signed and sitting in my lap, but it doesn't
truly exist until I'm putting in hours on it, at least in my head.  That's what
I'm trying to do, anyway.  Heh.  For now I'll just concentrate on the fact that
on Friday I start that nice minimum wage job doing work that I can handle.  It
won't give me economic security of that nature, but it'll help me pay the
bills, and that's a huge start.
  Sorry this took me so long to get out...  Those days of fogginess took their
toll on my correspondence backlogs, also.  :P  I really hope the rest of the
fog is gone by tomorrow.
  Best wishes!

  -Damon
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