Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 8th, 2009
Aftermath BM affected me a bit on the personal level this year. We always giggled at the “welcome home” mantra, because “home has running water.” This being the 4th time, BRC did feel like home. I really wanted to be there. I was glad to be there. It felt great to get out and mingle […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 27th, 2009
I put off writing about my Burning Man trip because I’ve been in the middle of moving. I loaded up early Friday morning and after a couple of last last minute errands, I was on the road by 9:30. I made excellent time all the way to New Mexico where I had my first adventure […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 24th, 2009
I had an interesting encounter with another resident tonight. I was outside crimping a terminal by hitting it with a hammer on the curb, and there was a couple of guys talking by the pool one on a motorcycle. I’m tapping away, he calls out “hey! who’s making that noise, motherfucker!” He starts up his […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 22nd, 2009
All of a sudden it dawned on my last night that I leave for Burning Man next Friday. For whatever reason I thought I had another week. I blame my calendar for pointing at the day the man burns, and not when I leave. So, today I ran a bunch of errands picking up some […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 9th, 2007
Finally back home in Austin. I arrived here Saturday afternoon after making the 2700+ mile trip from Bellevue. All together, I put in 6,295 miles in the two weeks I’ve been gone. I spent Monday and Tuesday visiting friends in the area and began the drive home Wednesday afternoon. I had intended to drive down […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 14th, 2007
So I guess against better judgement, I’m going to Burning Man after I get back from Amsterdam. aleigh: steve you moving has displaced the universe aleigh: now I have nowhere to stay in KC other than inlaws Bryan Wann: cee: I still have a futon for you aleigh: I wonder if I could make Denver […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 5th, 2006
Back in Austin, yipee! Ah, my clean apartment, my clean kitchen, my clean rugs, my bed, and my downstairs neighbor’s yapping dogs. I got in about 1 PM and promptly went to sleep again. I dropped off four rolls of film this afternoon, so I should be ready to start selecting and scanning in pictures […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 5th, 2006
Somewhere in Texas. It’s rainy, my catnap at Fort Stockton did nothing, I’m still four hours from home so I gave up and got a seedy motel room. 1,100 miles at 75 miles per hour is 14.67 hours, easy right? Every time I’d recalculate the time it would put me 10 hours out, grr. Somehow […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 4th, 2006
Somewhere in California, I’m absolutely wiped. On the way back home I decided to try the route Google and my Garmin recommended, which was to go over to Sacramento, catch I-5 down to LA, and over to Phoenix. The idea was that it was faster, there’d be less curvy mountain roads and I wouldn’t be […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 30th, 2006
So there I was, sitting in a hotel room in Reno waiting for the parts store to open tomorrow so we can get a water pump for the Land Rover. BM has been a bit rough, it was very hot on Monday and has been windy all week long. Dust, wind, dust, wind! It was […]
