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Jerry

Page history last edited by jerry 14 years, 8 months ago

Jerry

 


 

Introduction

 

That's my name, don't wear it out ;-)

But what's in a name anyway?

See below for an incomplete answer...

By The Way, it's Jerry, not Gerry, which some people have gotten wrong for years...

 

Differential Diagnosis ;-}

 

Gerry Hyland is a different guy, and has too much hair ;-}.

Gerry Connoley is a different guy and moving up in the world to Congress?.

As is George, curious or otherwise, and W ;-)

 

JerryStatus

 

Latest Goals

 

Long Signature:

Jerry rants and reports tangentially about Regional Mental Health issues

on NoVAPeers.PBWiki.com when not learning from the Street Sense vendors,

'Will Write for Food' writers group and office.   He has hopes of incubating

a similar process for mental health as Street Sense does Claims to do for mostly

DC Homelessness.  He can intermittently be contacted on the

supposedly collaborative though mostly deserted historical

prototype NoVAPeers.pbwiki.com PBWorks.com by

contacting the owner or in the new pbwiki2.0 comments fields,

as his emails he usually just publishes for everyone to see... 

 

Short Signature:

Jerry's a PIA PITA (Pain In The Analysis)....

 

Some 2006-2008 Expenses

  1. $40 Cab to RRWG meeting in bad weather, Receipt to Pathways' Sylissa at Jan RRWG meeting, but no response...
  2. $20 cash to Phil for pbwiki hosting with a witness...
  3. $45 Cab to RRWG meeting in bad weather
  4. Ink cartrides, file folders, paper, etc
  5. Wear and tear on transportation
  6. "Gas" for the bike "motor"
  7. Bus fares
  8. Hundreds[now over 1000] of hours of Time, researching, designing, writing, editing, updating, training, discussing, and promoting this Wiki
  9. Too many to account for really, especially after the fact, going on 3 [now 4] years later...

 

 

'Pain and Suffering'

 

At least two dead consumer/ survivor friends during this project time, David O'Brien, a longtime workgroup member and advocate from Alexandria, and Patrick Snow, someone I brought in from a now defunct support group to the OOOFC, applying for funds from the RRWG consumer operated services grant process...

 

Possibly implicated in the SH Cho at the Brain Foundation Open House, when he visited from Tech on spring break holiday, and spoke to me, probably wanted MR housing, then killed 32 people day(s) later. N.B. I had been told by the RRWG in no uncertain terms that I had no authority despite having the unofficial role of coordinating between the CSB and workgroup as an outspoken advocate, defining the paid position given to someone else, who has not had any consumer experience within the Region in question, and seems to work more for the providers than the consumers...  What would you do with an experience like that?  I've gone on to talk to people associated with other shooters to learn about the trauma and survival skills, though it's probably killing me inside...

 

Repeated abuse, ridicule, etc by members of the workgroup and provider system.

Stalking by a member on the premises, which is not yet been addressed.

Repeated and possibly intentional HIPAA violations by the fiscal/ adminstrative agent.

 

Hence, my focus on safety as a priority, as above happened during the supposedly good times of this funded project...

 

 

Roles:

 

20090719 update

 

Voted into the co-chair position lots of months ago, but under attack, and people looking to remove

me for writing about hte experience, which I was doing before and people must have know about

when voted in...

 

Legalese:  Opinions expressed here are not offical RRWG positions unless stated very clearly,

and signed, authorized, on letterhad, etc and basically killed of all personal meaning/ stolen by others...

 

 

20081216 update

 

Now that the money is outside our control, finally voted into a position of leadership/ authority as a Co-Chair.

But what leadership is possible in the current budget crisis?    Like a Democrat in a Republican Congress, it still takes a majority of votes to make positive changes...

So preside over cuts? 

Try to save lives, while burned out along side people paid to be there?

 

Originally,

Lead Contact on the website part of this project. Web Designer and Webmaster. How's that for relevant? ;-}

 

Person

 

With the recent loss of David from our group and including David O'Brien Memorial on NoVAPeers, attending the memorial services, and trying to deal with the loss, I've been wondering what my memorial service would be like, also a common exercise in looking at oneself and life in general, though belaboring it can be another issue... Probably not to include much God or preaching in a service, but hopefully GOD (Good Orderly Direction), maybe something like a celebration of my life, not entirely fun, but serious as well.

 

Memorial

 

When I think sometimes of what I would leave behind, it might be a memorial library. My grandmother didn't like the thought of people 'pawing through her things', but other people were antique dealers, and liked seeing odd, unique and old objects... I certainly have an appreciation for some of them, though the aesthetic and practical value of a 3/4 bed was a little much...

 

Interests

 

I like Books, but do not find much time to read them. My life might eventually make a good book, though probably not that interesting as a movie. I like graphics and frequently take pictures of places I travel, even found objects all the way through the mundane. As a slideshow, there would likely be few pictures of me, somewhat due to a self image issue, but hopefully of people, pets, nature, places and things that I liked. I've toyed with some of the tech of multimedia and just pictures might not be enough, but telling a story as well possibly with SMIL. I've audiotaped myself some like on a bike tour to Cumberland, MD along the C&O Canal, but huffing and puffing makes for some audio notes, but not much for a news sound byte...

 

Biking

I like to bike most of the time. Trying not to be road kill, but might happen, as the odds are probably for it...

 

Humor

My sense of humor, remembering David was a good jokester, is dry, very dry. Wearing a Bike To Work Day tshirt to a work like event 200 miles away. You'd need to know me pretty well to tell when I was joking. Even trained professionals, with decades of experience can not usually tell. "I can not tell a lie" Abe Lincoln may have once said. (See also digression of Lincoln in Atlantic Monthly...) I just don't see the point. Most people don't believe the situations I'm in anyway, and I found decades ago that I'm just not good at lying, so why bother? And if you have to explain the cosmic joke, does anyone get it anyway? Or if a bear sits in the woods, did the tree fall? ;-]

 

For example, seeing a turtle in the road, on the way to a Herding Turtles class, moving dreadfully slow going to a meeting/training, where most people preach prompt attendence, has some comic relief, but again, would need to see some humor in it, and not bitch about the late part, but glad that I got there safely, and not expired from "a random act of stupidity" tm aka bike touring in the heat advisories...

 

Common sense, it turns out, is not all that common. What a Paine ;-)

 

20081216 Addendum:

 

And I think Patch Adams, MD should be appointed the new Secretary of Health and Human Services, as humor may be the only way out of this budget crisis and it's effects...  Not that politicians aren't inherently funny, in and of themselves...

 

20090719 Addendum:

"He's a sour puss who should crawl under a rock like other trolls", he says about himself...

Seriously, self hating...  So why are you surprised he writes about others in the way he sees himself???

 

Recovery:

 

Does Recovery mean getting back to where you were before someone else probably determining you were sick?

Does it mean Wellness and happiness?

Or is it more existential?

Or is it a personal relationship with self, a higher power and others?

Or is it artwork and craft?

Your contributions to society?

Your friendships?

What you leave behind?

 

Someone once said that when people lie in a hospital bed at the end of their life and they do not wish for more work, money, etc? Perhaps people don't consider unless they are homeless and die because of the lack of those essential basic material needs... Or couldn't get a bed and die because of it?

 

 

Tech Accounts:

 

PBWiki:

I have created an individual account on this PBWiki to show who edits what.

I also have the account where I created this PBWiki.

 

There is a limitation of multilevel security on this PBWiki. The granularity of user accounts is not fine at all. One password for the entire wiki. Anything finer would require Premium service :-(.

 

Something like it might also be used to control access levels, like eventually administrator privileges.

 

In many situations, these roles would be Web Designer and Webmaster. But we are consumers as well, so we don't count in this game...

 

see also MeetingNotes.

 

p.s. YMMV

 

 

Jerry Emails



Page History:

 

20090719 Jerry

  1. tired of scrolling down the 411 or so NoVAPeers pages to add my user weblink to writngs so updating this and putting up higher in the links queue...

 

20061203 Jerry

  1. Updating status, expenses, etc
  2. Really needs to be edited for creating better segments and make much sorter page with other associated pages

 

20061007 Jerry

  1. Adding status, expenses, etc

 

20060919 Jerry

  1. Adding a section on status...

 

20060816 Jerry

Editing this page playing with anchors in the glossary after problems following the wiki training presentation with Sharon.

 

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