• free range was: camping was: bbsing

    From Nancy Backus@1:2320/100 to Damon A. Getsman on Sat Jul 25 23:47:02 2015
    Quoting Damon A. Getsman to Nancy Backus on 12-Jul-2015 07:26 <=-

    Re: Re: camping was: bbsing
    By: Nancy Backus to Damon A. Getsman on Mon Jun 29 2015 17:58:00

    Those are getting almost obsolete... but I'm sure that professional
    photographers must still be using them... :)

    I'm pretty sure the 35 mm ones are obsolete by now. It's just that
    I can use them so much better than most of the digital ones that I've played with, and my shots always come out looking spot on when I do things that way.

    As I said, I'm sure that the pros probably still use them, at least as
    part of their arsenal... there certainly are some shots that they work
    much better for... :)

    If nothing else, I need to get good enough at researching my
    ways out of the rabbit holes that I find myself in (in the code) well enough so that I don't have to rely on other people around me. I
    haven't forgotten the lesson that you only give someone credit for changing once they've changed, and I'm trying to make sure that I don't get burned when at some point in the future my finances take another
    hit due to others. (Long story here, not really sure I should share
    all of the details just yet, though I may have alluded to them
    before).

    I've been getting bits and pieces... probably enough to piece things
    together to some extent... And as far as the work goes, I'm sure that
    the more you work with it, the better and easier it will fall into place
    for you... and you'll gain the confidence you need, too... :)

    It's broken up by struggling to find some more interesting things
    to do with my son... Today is the day that I play catch 'n
    release. Wish me luck on the white knuckles of having my son out
    and about in this kind of area. ;)
    Being a week or so later, how did you and he survive...? ;)

    I failed. I went out and looked for a lot of places with him, and
    we weren't able to turn up a single place in all of our hours out that had enough kids. Or, like, _any_ free range kids. I'm expanding the boundaries that I'm using for looking in, but as mentioned before,
    that's got its own problems with the whole scenerio, too. Trying to remain ever optimistic, I am!

    It's not a failure if there just isn't the proper opportunity... And if
    there isn't a properly safe spot to do the catch and release, then that
    just needs to wait till there is a safe spot... :)

    There is that, too... :) When you have more space on your own, you'd be
    able to store things better... :)

    *crosses fingers* I was at the point where I was somewhere between 25-33% of the way to being able to safely start looking at new pads,
    and that's all gone right now because of someone else's bank 'oopsie'. Hence the drama that I alluded to above. I know it's not that far
    away, and that it'll come in even faster once I'm getting my next
    checks _and_ repaid for the outstanding balance right now, but it's
    still frustrating as hell, if you'll pardon my lanugage.

    Just think of it as a minor setback... even though it feels like much
    more... as you say, it'll work itself out, once you get the checks
    directly and get repaid for the part that got snagged...

    I'm trying to make that the standard per week. This summer could
    be a really good time for digging myself out of the hole that we've
    ended up in for a bit.
    Sounds wonderful.. ;) I'm sure that it's a great feeling... relief,
    too... :)

    Well, wish me luck on this next week of finances. I'm scraping
    bottom right now again when I should be four digits in the green. At least I had enough to pay a little more against the card that I had to almost max out getting treatment for my cat. :P

    Things will straighten out... :)

    ttyl neb

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  • From Damon A. Getsman@1:2320/100 to Nancy Backus on Sat Aug 1 13:20:02 2015
    Re: free range was: camping was: bbsing
    By: Nancy Backus to Damon A. Getsman on Sat Jul 25 2015 23:39:52

    As I said, I'm sure that the pros probably still use them, at least as part of their arsenal... there certainly are some shots that they work much better for... :)

    Yeah I don't know how much of a pro I'll ever be, but especially with the scenery being what it is around here (you can see 2 volcanos from the city, ffs), I've definitely got to find a decent 35mm camera with some color and some
    B&W film. I miss that a lot, and it's been way too long since I've had a decent photo album. I always end up losing digital photos... There should be some sort of record of my son's childhood, if nothing else. Like a material one.

    I've been getting bits and pieces... probably enough to piece things together to some extent... And as far as the work goes, I'm sure that
    the more you work with it, the better and easier it will fall into place for you... and you'll gain the confidence you need, too... :)

    I went over most of that in the last message. ;) Things are definitely getting better again. Being able to deliver on that feature that I'd been working on forever really, REALLY eased my mind about the whole thing. I was probably pretty far down in the grips of irrational paranoia, but I've not been
    in the industry in a 'real' area before, so I guess I'm still expecting that things will be as bad as they were for me the last time I was doing it in North
    Dakota. PTSD, if you will. ;)

    It's not a failure if there just isn't the proper opportunity... And if there isn't a properly safe spot to do the catch and release, then that just needs to wait till there is a safe spot... :)

    Thank you for saying that. There's only 4 weeks left until summer. I hope if we aren't able to turn anything up soon here that, at the very least, he meets some kids in 4th grade this time around that have parents that actually want to let their kids have a social life. We'll see, I guess. I'll meditate on it, after I've done the Jedi training prerequisite part of it for the day from now on. ;)

    Just think of it as a minor setback... even though it feels like much more... as you say, it'll work itself out, once you get the checks directly and get repaid for the part that got snagged...

    Yeah, I should be a lot higher, but I've got the number of digits in my bank account that I'm a lot more comfortable with again, now. I'm gonna work on pressing that up, and maybe it will even encourage some other people around here to work a little harder on their own escape trajectories. ;) (That's not
    even my term for it-- I'm not the only one here that's talking about things in these terms-- heh)
    More l8r.

    -D
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