For the general information of all:
Darkside and I operate on a deep communications lag at this point. I talk with him once a week or less frequently. On very, very good weeks, I talk to him four times a week. On bad weeks, I do not talk to him at all.
The burden of communication is upon me. I am the one interested and motivated to maintain contact. He is accustomed to a very low level of contact with old friends; he sees some of his friends once or twice a year, tops. Most of his old friends he never sees. He's completely lost contact.
I'm the one who leaves messages on his family voicemail. I'm the one who puts random e-mails there for him to find. I'm the one who attempts to show up on his doorstep on weekends. He drops by every now and then, say if it's a birthday, or a holiday.
Thus, if something's going on, unless it's something lifeshattering in my life (like when my soulsister wound up in the hospital), I'm unlikely to hear from him outside of the usual times.
If there's something going on in his life, he doesn't tend to discuss it much without much prompting. He's silly that way.
So I'm unlikely to hear anything more from him about the whole Air Force thing until the next time we get to talk, which, depending on his schedule and my timing in calling him, could be either Saturday, or a month from now...
Darkside and I operate on a deep communications lag at this point. I talk with him once a week or less frequently. On very, very good weeks, I talk to him four times a week. On bad weeks, I do not talk to him at all.
The burden of communication is upon me. I am the one interested and motivated to maintain contact. He is accustomed to a very low level of contact with old friends; he sees some of his friends once or twice a year, tops. Most of his old friends he never sees. He's completely lost contact.
I'm the one who leaves messages on his family voicemail. I'm the one who puts random e-mails there for him to find. I'm the one who attempts to show up on his doorstep on weekends. He drops by every now and then, say if it's a birthday, or a holiday.
Thus, if something's going on, unless it's something lifeshattering in my life (like when my soulsister wound up in the hospital), I'm unlikely to hear from him outside of the usual times.
If there's something going on in his life, he doesn't tend to discuss it much without much prompting. He's silly that way.
So I'm unlikely to hear anything more from him about the whole Air Force thing until the next time we get to talk, which, depending on his schedule and my timing in calling him, could be either Saturday, or a month from now...