-=> Quoting Damon A. Getsman to Nancy Backus on 27-Nov-2015 09:51 <=-
 DAG> Re: Re: _always trying_ (was  still trying....)
 DAG> By: Nancy Backus to Damon A. Getsman on Mon Nov 23 2015 18:20:34
 
 NB>> Yup, seems to be...  now, I just have to get myself caught up
 NB>> again... <G>
 DAG> Ah, the alternating tribulation.  

Yup...  

 NB>> Water under the bridge and all that...   We probably rehash stuff
 NB>> enough as it is...  <G>
 DAG> Yeah it seems like we're getting around to the same sorts of
 DAG> subjects pretty regularly regardless.  

After all, life tends to be somewhat repetitious, or at least cyclic... 
 
 NB>> Yeah, to actually try it out, assuming it comes through...    It
 NB>> probably wouldn't be any worse than that job at the airport cafe...
 NB>> but you wouldn't know unless you tried...
 DAG> Oh for sure it couldn't be any worse than that.  I mean hopefully
 DAG> I'm not jinxing myself but that store was in a _really_ horrible state
 DAG> due to the reason that it was new, and the kinks hadn't been ironed out
 DAG> yet.  Plus it was almost a half hour commute, which is too much in a
 DAG> vehicle that needs to be used as little as possible to keep it viable
 DAG> as an emergency escape route, should that be necessary in the future. 

Yeah, that was a bad scene all around...

 DAG> If anything, my guess is that it would at least be somewhat better due
 DAG> to the proximity of it.  Got that 2nd job referral just a little bit
 DAG> farther away in the other direction now, too.  I'm gonna try to get to
 DAG> at least one of the places today to drop off my infoz.

Proximity would certainly make things easier, for sure..    Anything
come of those yet...?

 DAG> Anyway about that emergency escape route bit...  It probably sounds a
 DAG> little premature at this point, but my roomie is having the same sort of
 DAG> issues and is considering moving back to the east coast as a potential
 DAG> way to stay off of the street, as well.  So I'm basically planning to
 DAG> try to head to Arizona, if my invite is still open there, should that
 DAG> happen here.  I really hope it doesn't come to that, and I'm going to
 DAG> do everything in my power to keep it from happening, but 50% of it is
 DAG> kind of out of my hands at this point. 

Hopefully things can work out at your end, and you won't need to make
the emergency escape... 

 DAG> No hours in sight till December-February on the contract
 DAG> work, either. As it stands right now I actually don't even have enough
 DAG> to cover rent & utilities at the end of this month.  Things have not
 DAG> gone very well. 

Ouch.

 DAG>> I was finally able to re-find my son's phone now, too.  Which
 DAG>> definitely helps for security if he's going to be out and about.
 NB>> But that's very good... 
 DAG> Yeah it should help him get out for things like basketball practice
 DAG> on the days that I don't do it with him.  That's really about all he
 DAG> gets out for right now, there's just not enough other regular kids
 DAG> around to be able to give him much of an incentive to want to roam and
 DAG> do his free range thing. 

At least he has a friend now... 

 NB>> Friends are a good thing...    Probably would save some money on the
 NB>> phone if they were spending more time physically together...    I
 NB>> suspect the kids wouldn't even notice if things were messy in the
 NB>> apartment...
 DAG> I don't think they care, but the other kid's mother has a habit of
 DAG> coming in and wanting to talk and stuff.  Kind of makes me pretty
 DAG> ashamed of the quarters we're living in, but what can I really do? 
 DAG> Three people, three _lives_ worth of stuff all packed into a 1 bedroom
 DAG> apartment tends to make it a bit difficult to keep up.

Maybe she doesn't mind about it either...  My house has been a real mess
for ages now... I just tell people that if they want to see me, that's
fine, but if they are going to be fussed about the house, not to
bother..    Some years ago, I was apologizing to the mother of one of
my piano students about the mess, and she, quite graciously, reminded me
that the important thing to her was that I was teaching her kids piano,
not my housekeeping...  

 DAG> I've got a whirlwind planned for sometime this weekend in order to
 DAG> try to make it a bit farther through some of the cleaning tasks and
 DAG> everything, but it needs to be when I can focus a day on that and that
 DAG> alone.  I think one day this weekend will probably be filled with that.

And, did it accomplish...?   

ttyl        neb

... Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow.

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