Bob Ueker, I am sorry I thought he’d passed years ago. He really knew his field, but when he was out of water, that became his persona, having fun, not being mean, winging it. He always made me smile. Off the job, Please I don’t have to know what he was really like…

He certainly did bring the issue of corrupt health insurance companies screwing the public, to the front and center of the news. Mmm, yep. It’s a net benefit then, you’d agree? What’s scary anymore that does not touch us on the tip our individual noses? Been denied any kind of healthcare under your...

Welcome! This is a good resource for you and people like to help. I think You will need to get a bit more up to speed on what you need, based on reading about it, and asking specific questions. It’s too broad a question How? Transportation? Camping? Tent trailer rv? Food? I suggest that you read the...

I saw him a a few meet and greets. He was a sweet man, met me like an old friend, and iirc gave me a few postcards. may have these still. Awesome trike, (I’ll store that picture for future reference)

one might submit, it's silly to think you can change human nature. Sure, for a time anything is possible, but as it always has, and always will, it devolves to the base instincts. We love to point fingers at "who's fault" it is, but in reality, it's all of us, in one way or another. And if we can't...

No where near that much. Last time I went they ask for $20-$25. This goes towards snacks and drinks. You go out and help with improvements from trail building to painting. Good people, all Burners in the old sense. I didn’t make the figure up. There were weekend overnights at that price per person ...

So much study on how to camp with paying people you do not know or like. Just call it what it is: temporary hotelier training.

$6666 with inflation? I think we should get the BLM to gift us Hualapai, use the water from Fly to get it from a dust bowl back to a playa, and move the event there, no BLM and no LEO. You never know what a crazy Secretary of the Interior might do. Maybe Elon, Jared and Ivanka, and the other billio...

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I suppose it’s a more hygienic and less gory a ruination, than the one I’ve prayed for. "The millstones of the gods grind late, but they grind fine." I would love to see the Venmo notations.

The cush-gig speaketh... Please help me retain this cush gig That’s it. Reality distorted. Free thinking artists and master level dilly dalliers, got confused by money, and thought they were also billionaire elite. It’s a pricey life and now they are elite party planners, who were never that good a...

Those buns! I went to a mountain restaurant lodge once, in woods so shady, there was always a damp except in the hottest part of summer.

They had a cold salsa and chips on the table. It was actually a cold chili: well canned tomatoes in mid winter, kidney beans, chopped green onion.

A favorite early snl news item came to mind: NASA reports that they are receiving signals that coincide with the Voyager spacecraft mapped location and path, that say: "Send more Chuck Berry!" I was aware that I have not listened to any Chuck Berry intentionally in ages. Also: Send more crusty bread...

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listen....



https://www.npr.org/2024/10/08/12109382 ... -coachella

Instas got no staying power. Hallelujah!

Ygmir *pokes toe at lump in NEB*. I hope you are sleeping through as much as you can. *arranges soup hot pot on hot items table (with sneeze guard)* bowls, spoons, trays. Fresh wheat rolls. I prescribe chili lime and coconut… Tom ka gai soup is an excellent Thai soup that can really loosen the old h...

I’m curious now about the beaver trade. The demand was high enough to hunt them near to extinction? The price did not go high enough to make those with big money stop wanting their pelts and castor. What was called the jet set, when recreational flight made nearly the entire world accessible, is a r...

. Symphony Sounds good to me. There hasn’t been a musical tie in, harmonious, chords, lots of layers, even as a pun. ;). The Dodgers had a great bleacher band called the Sym-phony. Re: Molotov’s suggestion . It reminded me of Robert Fulgham’s book, the title taken from the statement of a man awaken...

Hey Bar! Dang the weather on playa, I bet it’s been nice. I kick myself every weekend this time of year that turns out this beautiful: “how come I’m not camping?”

Just don’t look them in the eye

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https://journal.burningman.org/2013/09/ ... y-p-diddy/

In the word and spirit of Bill the Cat: “ack!” Pink Jeeves gets a ticket guar on teed every year and he gets near worship, so he’s got a different take.

cultural fracture over monetization. These “lads” likely haven’t the slightest clue about no commodification. Likely they’d react with indignation, as if they had been told burning man had rules against breathing. “How stupid”, I can hear them say, while trying to find the critical tits bike ride. d...

Alan watts can be heard in seemingly endless “to sleep with” selections on YouTube. When I’ve tuned in, I wake feeling slightly chastised for my humananity, not necessarily enriched. Ymmv.

You are not a bad friend, Patsh. You are a cherished friend. It was a lapse in communication, and you have apologized and I’ve accepted it. A valid threat of a houseguest seriously did wonders for the condition of my home. I am enjoying that still. “In spite of ourselves” is my new approach to the c...

Hi Josh, perhaps get shoes you don’t need to tie. Welcome, please use the search bar, yes, good idea.

*rides in on War Rabbit™* *grabs mug from ENECM, adds Swiss Miss and whiskey* HI Elorrum! did you not go this year? For some reason I had thought you were? I've heard from friends on playa, some rain, not so much to be a real bother though. Well, unless you panic or don't respect the mud... Also so...

*wipes fingers through dust on bar, notes orange specks in the dust.* Well, here it is again. I’m watching it, some. Got their radio on, some. Feels like the next carnival on the calendar, catching my interest like the national kennel club dog show highlights, or the Olympics. Like that, then like a...

It appears the next step in any regulation whatsoever will likely require a participant death, or maiming. “Doing it wrong” only responds, in my experience of pointing out violations of principles, to problems they can either litigate or have criminally prosecuted. There is no instrument available o...

That plywood base would be well secured with this plan. Your post though would be very vulnerable to being easily levered off a short post base fastener. Lamplighters have an elegant plywood finned base for an idea there, or maybe add one or some verticals driven into the ground (anyone recall t sta...

Interesting suggestions. I really appreciate that they do not involve shopping, or any sort of project. I will enjoy a cold pizza picnic at the water tower park, and hopefully choose wisely.

https://www.up.com/heritage/steam/schedule/index.htm#:~:text=Union%20Pacific's%20legendary%20Big%20Boy,Tour%20from%20Wyoming%20to%20California. The Big Boy Steam Engine, the largest “successful”, I’ve seen it deemed, perhaps since it was not unique? There are a few days for research. It’s unique to ...

I had a nice time hanging out in a backyard, comfortable, with a vegetable garden, a big old tree. Tried out a cast iron wok shape bbq, the solid basics: hot dogs, cheeseburgers with garden fresh lettuce picked that moment almost!!!! Corn on the cob! Ice cream on a stick, cherries were a nice waterm...