Re: Re: Aikido, kids activities, kittie
  By: Nancy Backus to Damon A. Getsman on Mon Jun 29 2015 18:11:16

 NB> Maybe he just assumed you'd know, or be able to find out from somewhere
 NB> else... ;)

  Yeah I'm trying to give the sensei the benefit of the doubt.  He seemed like
the friendliest one that I've met around here so far.  Plus he's the only
fulltime Aikido dude in Portland (at least from what he says).  Seems super
friendly, really good with kids (with ones of his own, also), and I'm still
planning on going with him.  Still, I checked on all of the websites and
everything.  Would've been really nice to have gotten that callback.

 NB> Sink fixed now...?

  Finally, praise be to all of the dieties that there may be.  There is still a
large amount of disarray where the kitchen was all torn apart to give them
access, and there was a hell of a scare that the landlord would appear to
micromanage things, as per his style, while the plumber was here.  The clot was
quite aways out, so it was definitely his responsibility, and didn't end up
coming out of our dime, but the stress...  Ugh.  Especially in having to hide
everything that made it look like there were too many tenants here.  Still
recovering from that complete ragtag compression of all of my worldly goods
into the different closets and under some pieces of furniture around here.

 NB> Could just be super busy, or not too organized at the administration
 NB> level, or his voicemail doesn't work right...  Sometimes in person works
 NB> best for things anyway...  :)

  Yeah.  Like I said, I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt.  I'm going to go
in and see him again tomorrow, when he's got a standard session, and just start
myself right away (if I can pull the cash together) and then probably get
Deschain started right away, too, or else maybe wait for the family session on
Sunday a week from today if he's more comfortable with that.

 DAG>> be enough funds to make up whatever the plumber is going to cost
 DAG>> us. It'd be really nice to be able to use the kitchen normally
 DAG>> again, too.  :P 
 NB> Hopefully all fixed now...  :)

  Yeah.  Just need to carve through the mountains of backlogged, and somewhat
toxic (due to NaOH), dishes and other cookwares.  Then I need a day when this
place is somewhat vacated to pull out all of my crap from the closets and the
other stash spots so that I can get it all staged again to be replanted in
areas where it'll stay folded and otherwise organized.  It was a pretty major
upset, having to hide 2/3 of the belongings in a 1 bedroom apartment occupied
by three people.  Wouldn't recommend it.  The kitchen, at least, is slowly
returning to functionality, though.

 DAG>> I think I found another community center that we'll be able to
 NB> Did that work out...?  Close enough to get to, and all...?

  Didn't happen yet due to other crap.  I tried getting him out to some closer
locations and none of them worked out, so I've still definitely got to go
there.  In fact *puts reminder in calendar for tomorrow* now I won't forget. 
;)

 NB> Sounds like a reasonable thing...  :)   And it doesn't hurt to have
 NB> complementary skills when working on a project... I'm sure that you have
 NB> some skills that he doesn't...  :)

  Oh, I do.  It's always good when he points that out, also, because my own
insecurity on the issue of employment in this field really shoots me in the
foot sometimes.  It's hard to maintain that "I'm not worthy," mentality when I
find a bug that the experienced guy has been banging his head against the
cinderblocks with for a few hours after taking a brief glimpse at the code,
though.  ;)  We've got pretty complimentary  skill sets, and it's handy. 
Unfortunately right now we're both down these coding rabbitholes that've got us
buried in the same stuff.  Then again, that means it's my time to learn.  He's
doing a little bit of double time teaching me what I'd forgotten about PHP and
learning all about the OO support that it added that I'd never learned before. 
So I'm happy with it.  I'm just keeping my fingers crossed as far as his levels
of motivation staying up.  ;)

 NB> Always helps to have someone not sick to take care of the others, too.. ;)

  Sh!  Don't tell them I'm well!

 NB> Preparation generally helps... but the loss still hurts when it's
 NB> finalized...  Just because one knows what's coming down doesn't make one
 NB> like it any more....  Sounds like you were fortunate to have the kitty
 NB> for as long as you did, actually..  :)

  I was, very much.  I certainly won't forget that.  I say it about several
different things, so maybe it comes across as just a cliche that I use
sometimes, but there are large chunks of my life where I don't know if I
would've been able to make it through without that cat (or his brother, before
his early loss).  I actually wrote up a whole series of messages on my local
boards about the different adventures that I had with those cats...  Maybe
sometime I'll cross post those to international, or something.  They're windy
and long, but I don't think that they're too badly written, and it goes into
serious depth on some of the different bits of history with them that I alluded
to in different messages over the months/years that I've been here.

 NB> Understood...  and I'm slowly doing some catchup... maybe I'll be up to
 NB> date before I take off for 2 weeks away from access to Fido... ;)  But
 NB> as that's the end of this week, and things are still rather crazy, we'll
 NB> just have to wait and see...  ;)

  I had to take a little bit of time off as well.  Had a little med change that
hasn't been throwing me for one of my major loops, but it's made things a
little bit more stressful.  So basically, when I haven't been using the
computer for work lately, I've been spending a lot more time disconnected. 
Trying to do more things with my son around here, too, since it seems like the
ones outdoors have, at least in the general vicinity, all been pre-sabotaged by
Loki.  :)  Good things to be doing though, I think.
  Best wishes.

  -D
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