Re-send of message dated 19 Mar 15  20:52:09
  Subj: Re: Some good things going on in the land of poverty and confusion
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-=> Quoting Damon A. Getsman to Nancy Backus on 16-Mar-2015 21:37 <=-

 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...  :)

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

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

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

Nah... never bothered getting one..  :)  Never really had a need for
it... :)  Usually have had some other reasonably secure way of talking
outside an echo or email...  :)

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

 DAG> I'm working on it.  A med flux that I had recently destroyed my
 DAG> ability to concentrate on left brained things very well for a few
 DAG> days, but I think I'm over that now.  

Ach... that doesn't sound good... hope it stays stable..  :)

 DAG> I'm going to start making sure that I'm putting in a full 4-6 hours,
 DAG> at least, on a daily basis, coding from now on.  I definitely need
 DAG> to make sure that those pathways are ready to get up to speed on
 DAG> something new. 

Sounds wise..  :)
 
 DAG> I even created a virtual server with the software that they're using
 DAG> in order to just try learning what I can about fiddling with it
 DAG> while I'm sitting here and waiting to start.  :) 

That's sounds like a good use of time... :)  Gives you something
reasonably constructive to do that might be useful on the job as
well....  :)

 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...

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

Look in the phone book for City Hall, and start there.... or call your
local branch of the library and ask there where to start... ;)  One or
the other should be able to at least point you in the right direction,
if not actually have the answers about bikes, kids and sidewalks... ;)
 
 NB>> Sounds like you should be getting some decent economic security now,
 NB>> especially if the IT job works out well, as it should... :)

 DAG> Hell yeah.  I'm just trying to not count my chickens before they're
 DAG> hatched, as it were.  I've had a couple of promises yanked out from
 DAG> under the rug on me a few times here; this one is signed and sitting in
 DAG> my lap, but it doesn't truly exist until I'm putting in hours on it, at
 DAG> least in my head.  That's what I'm trying to do, anyway. 

Signed and sitting in your lap, even without details seems pretty
substantial to me...  :)

 DAG> Heh.  For now I'll just concentrate on the fact that on Friday I
 DAG> start that nice minimum wage job doing work that I can handle.  It
 DAG> won't give me economic security of that nature, but it'll help me
 DAG> pay the bills, and that's a huge start. 

And it'll take up some of that nervous energy that is getting you so
revved up... ;)

 DAG> Sorry this took me so long to get out...  Those days of
 DAG> fogginess took their toll on my correspondence backlogs, also. :P 
 DAG> I really hope the rest of the fog is gone by tomorrow.
 DAG> Best wishes!

We all do have our days of fogginess...  :)  Last week (and to some
extent this one as well) have been rather short-circuiting for me... a
couple of days too full with unexpected problems, and a couple more
where the brain didn't quite want to function well enough to answer
messages... and voila... days behind...  ;0   I'm almost catching up
now... only a day behind now... ;)

ttyl       neb

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