It was a bad day yesterday. Big fan of Tom Petty. Friend was in Vegas (but she's ok). And just Vegas. WTF is wrong with people and this country?

It was hot as hell during the day. Like, can't move from your chair, risk heat exhaustion/stroke by moving about hot. Most of our camp sat in the shade with misting bottles waiting for the sun to go down all day. Don't ever remember a burn so hot and this was my 12th. First time I ever left early to...

I left yesterday around sunset. No traffic, but saw the Tohakum2 fire burning in the mountains on 447. Eerie. There's a fire camp near Snoopy Rock and a lot of staging in Nixon.

Hearing the news of the suicide, I'm glad I left before the burn.

Hey Joe, do you go up there every weekend? I moved to Stagecoach, NV so I'm only about an hour drive from the playa. Would love to go up some weekend.

I loved the crossword puzzle! Only filled on one though.

The jerk from the Shamandome who, while I was mooping on Tuesday pointed to a bike on our lot and told me, 'that one isn't ours.' I said, it's not ours either, don't you put it on our lot. He says' all of our bikes are marked and we had 80 and they're all here.' (He has a trailer full of bikes). He ...

It's gonna be dusty. Just had a white out at gate. Big dust across the play.

Edit: and another. Ain't moving at all. Can't see at all.

Retrofrolic is self funded, with the exception that we started doing camp-outs during the year to a) use the stuff more than once a year and b) introduce others that might not burn to our brand of kinky fun. The camp outs cover expenses of the campouts and hopefully a bit more so we can replace or a...

Oops here come the regular price tix for sale. Nice to see the presale & LdV tix holders getting reamed.

Retrofrolic is E & 6:45.

Retrofrolic is at E & 6:45 this year. Right where BDC was last year!

Are we still 7:30 neighborhood or 6?

Got mine today

Next year....if all goes well, I'll be moving to Reno in Nov. and a lot closer in. Not to mention not dealing with all the crap that comes with agreeing to sell your house and move...

They've been trying to buy Fly for a long time now. I guess they finally came up with enough to make the owner give in.

Yup, and if you live in CA, you have to register as a foreign Corp doing business in the state and pay the fees anyways. A lot of other states make you register too.

I was deleting crap out of my email and saw the reminder email from burning man. Oh crap, it's Wednesday! It's 12:08! I forgot my ticketfly password! Still the easiest ticket buy I've ever had. I figured they'd be a lot of people buying right now but my green man sprinted to the finish line.

Retrofrolic!

Retrofrolic has had a wind turbine in addition to solar & the backup gennie since 2011. For several years (until we started running and electrical play station all day & night) we really only needed the generator for overcast & still days. Having both really helps because the wind is oft...

There was an incident where LEOs forced a naked guy to clothe his also naked kid.

Yes, maybe lift the seat before you squat?

I usually lose my voice before the gate even opens, but this year I drank a lot of pickle juice and it came back. I was hoarse but could talk.

We used the mesh firepit lid that we had on our burn barrel to sift the big drifts of dust. Worked well! Next year I'm going to make a second moop sifter with even finer mesh. All green again! And I was worried because we had some serious drifts and actual piles of dust we swept out of the dungeon a...

Not sure what the box was made out of, think it was plywood & insulation.

Me and apparently at least 7 other members of my camp got sick after the burn. Not playa lung, because my roommate caught it from me. Some kind of crud is going around, with varying symptoms. And it's exactly the kind of thing that could turn to bronchitis easily; I was about to go to the doctor ( s...

Our genny became an art piece when it caught fire. Melted the baffle box to it. We put it out in front of the camp hoping someone would steal it, but finally had to take it with us. Many thanks to whoever shouted 'fire!' To alert us, and kudos to our Fearless Leader for having fire extinguishers eve...

We had two bikes abandoned IN our camp this year. In with our camp bikes. Nice line of bikes, deep in camp and two were leftover when all were claimed. What would you do with them?

I did see a post of FB that a bus rolled in Gerlach Sunday. This tied up traffic. Getting vehicles around it could have caused the on & off backup that rippled down 447.

I started running a fever with sinus issues on Friday (got home on Wednesday). Ran a fever all weekend, stuffy nose, sinus issues. Now I'm getting a cough on top of it, chest hurts a bit, sneezing a lot, but the fever broke Sunday. At least the inside of my nose has recovered; I had nosebleeds prett...

Was that rude woman in the feather Mohawk supposed to be there?

Three members of our camp needed the Imodium too; one at the beginning of the week, one left Monday night because of it (was going to stay through Tuesday strike) and the third got hit right after we left the playa. We did have Imodium though.