-=> Quoting Damon A. Getsman to Nancy Backus on 01-May-2015 09:34 <=-

Continuing... the last was getting too long...  
 
 NB>> We get that, too... nothing but rain in the forecast, but look out the
 NB>> window and there's sun and maybe some clouds...  ;)
 DAG> Heh.  It's been a lot nicer around here lately.  Got a nice trip to
 DAG> the river beach planned here for this weekend, if all works out.  I
 DAG> want my son and I to be outside for awhile, but nothing quite so
 DAG> stressful as this last campout. More of just a day to be a beach bum,
 DAG> maybe cook some hotfrogs, throw some recreational spheres around, all
 DAG> of that jazz.  ;) 

That sounds like fun... did you get to, and did he enjoy it...?

 NB>> Sounds perfect.  :)  Most of our large parks are outside the city limits,
 NB>> but it's not that large a city anyway... and there's lots of woodland
 NB>> and green space around... :)
 DAG> I definitely miss a less urban setting right now.  Hopefully this
 DAG> contract work helps me fill the coffers soon enough here that I can
 DAG> save my kittie's life and then get ready to relocate to an area where
 DAG> he'll have more kids around, more space to play, and not quite so many
 DAG> yuppies packed in like sardines.  :)  Not that I mind them in the
 DAG> slightest, hell I aspire to be one, though the 'y' part might not apply
 DAG> to me any more.  The lack of kids, though, and the fact that kids
 DAG> wandering to the park alone in this area are subject to sheltered
 DAG> dipshits calling them in to the cops, leaves quite a bit to be desired.
 DAG> Didn't really forsee that in the cards when I moved here. 

Something one just can't see ahead of time... and sometimes one just
doesn't have a lot of choice in circumstances until things get more
under control...  Hopefully you'll be able to find a better location for
your and your son's needs and wellbeing...  :)

 NB>> So, did you do your camping trip, yet...?   I sure hear you on the cabin
 NB>> fever part, certainly is the season when it really is time to get back
 NB>> out and doing again...  :)
 DAG> Sure did.  It was a lot more stressful than it could've been, due to
 DAG> some issues with other people's children on the way, but all in all it
 DAG> was a good experience, and I'd still call it a net positive.

That's a shame... so the stress was mostly just on the way there...? 
and relieved by the camping itself...?

 DAG> I need to
 DAG> get some of the pictures off of my phone and up onto a site somewhere
 DAG> where I can share them, no doubt.  It was absolutely beautiful setting,
 DAG> although I'll admit I was haunted that night trying to sleep due to
 DAG> proximity to Mt. St. Helens and the subsurface geology of the area.  ;)

Sounds like you just have to learn not to let your imagination run away
with you...    Or move to someplace where the danger is less (or you
don't know about the dangers [g])...

 NB>> As far as I could tell, this was the first reply to this... ;)  I did go
 NB>> back and check my saved messages, to be sure... and to make sure that I
 NB>> hadn't answered it back already...  ;)  I think part of it is that we
 NB>> are having similar threads in three different echoes at the moment.. ;)
 DAG> It's nice to have an archivist in the threads.  ;)  That's on my
 DAG> list of things to do, also...  Time is such a horribly limiting
 DAG> quantity, though.  I suspect that you are very much right in the bit
 DAG> about the similar threads. Perhaps at some point I'll go through and
 DAG> consolidate here.  That may well fall back onto the 'load-shedding
 DAG> pile', as my roommate so aptly puts it, though. ;)

It doesn't hurt to have similar threads happening in different echoes...
there's at least a potential that way of engaging different people in
the conversation(s)... eg Maurice is here and in Asian_Link, but not in
Memories... and some are only in Memories...  :)

I made a habit a long time ago of saving messages to and from me (and a
few others, on occasion) for any echo I was active in.  It just makes
finding the information a little easier.  :)  I also save my Reply
packets, just in case I need to re-send something... that saved me a
number of times when I'd written out an involved genealogy message... no
re-typing needed, just an extract and insert into a new message.  :)

ttyl        neb

... OK I'm weird!  But I'm saving up to be eccentric...

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