Your playa list
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Your playa list
I'm not sure if i'm the only one who does this, but i have started making my playa list for this year. This will be my first year at burning man. Your playa list is pretty much your list of everything you are taking. I make list because i always seem to forget something if i don't. So what all is on your list. I'm interested to see what weird/common sense things that people bring that i may not yet have thought of.
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Ok, so let me get this straight, in the list I write down the things I want to bring and then, I'm guessing sometime shortly before I go to burning man, I go through the list and pack the things on the list???
I guess this seems like it would work in theory, but I'm not sure It really pays to go through the effort. I find walking aimlessly through my house going over and over again "Oh I should bring that!" works the best.
T.
I guess this seems like it would work in theory, but I'm not sure It really pays to go through the effort. I find walking aimlessly through my house going over and over again "Oh I should bring that!" works the best.
T.
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I make lists of projects, lists of materials that need to be bought, camp checklists, and then personal checklists. I also make lists within some of the projects in order to identify all the components and stuff involved.
Hilariously, I don't think I've ever made a list of the things I should pack for myself.
~Trilo~
Hilariously, I don't think I've ever made a list of the things I should pack for myself.
~Trilo~
List? You think you have a list? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Feast your eyes on these lists:
http://burningcam.com/travel-notes/
http://www.arfarfarf.com/burningman/items.html
http://www.magicink.com/burningman/98/equipment.txt
http://www.eugeneweb.com/~bm/bmlist.html
http://www.anybodyburns.com/bmcamplist.htm
http://www.ae-zone.org/Tips/tipscontents.html
http://www.burningman.com/preparation/e ... esert.html
http://www.blackrockrangers.org/BMguide2000.html
http://www.cieux.com/bm/things.html
Feast your eyes on these lists:
http://burningcam.com/travel-notes/
http://www.arfarfarf.com/burningman/items.html
http://www.magicink.com/burningman/98/equipment.txt
http://www.eugeneweb.com/~bm/bmlist.html
http://www.anybodyburns.com/bmcamplist.htm
http://www.ae-zone.org/Tips/tipscontents.html
http://www.burningman.com/preparation/e ... esert.html
http://www.blackrockrangers.org/BMguide2000.html
http://www.cieux.com/bm/things.html
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On my bathroom mirror, in dry-erase marker:
test tent
tune-up truck
get dress shirt, water jugs
pack foodbox
fetch gas can
fix bike
Crappin' Hole-in! It's only 3 w/e's till escape velocity.
Tonight's exciting adventure is to finish making playa-pants.
test tent
tune-up truck
get dress shirt, water jugs
pack foodbox
fetch gas can
fix bike
Crappin' Hole-in! It's only 3 w/e's till escape velocity.
Tonight's exciting adventure is to finish making playa-pants.
I'll be in my blanket fort until further notice.
Did someone say "packing list"?
http://mysite.verizon.net/pivy/BurningM ... st2006.doc
As far as to-do lists, I've got most of mine completed (yay!) but earlier in the year a friend turned me on to http://www.tadalist.com and I've been using it ever since. I wish it was more hierarchical, but hey, it's free.
http://mysite.verizon.net/pivy/BurningM ... st2006.doc
As far as to-do lists, I've got most of mine completed (yay!) but earlier in the year a friend turned me on to http://www.tadalist.com and I've been using it ever since. I wish it was more hierarchical, but hey, it's free.
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Darn, Diane, I can't connect with your blog!
Anyways, my list is random notes spread throughout a notebook I carry with me to write down stuff when I think of it. I looked through it earlier today and was surprised I already bought most of the stuff I had thought to write down. Still need inner tubes and tires for an old bike, and I am pretty certain there is a bunch of stuff I am forgetting... (or haven't addressed yet-- like the fact my grill is a TABLETOP grill-- which made sense when I bought it for a failed cookout in a local park, but..., well, maybe I can find a tailgate to plop it down on
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Huh. Maybe I should make a note to myself to compile my list and work on filling it.
B.

Anyways, my list is random notes spread throughout a notebook I carry with me to write down stuff when I think of it. I looked through it earlier today and was surprised I already bought most of the stuff I had thought to write down. Still need inner tubes and tires for an old bike, and I am pretty certain there is a bunch of stuff I am forgetting... (or haven't addressed yet-- like the fact my grill is a TABLETOP grill-- which made sense when I bought it for a failed cookout in a local park, but..., well, maybe I can find a tailgate to plop it down on

Huh. Maybe I should make a note to myself to compile my list and work on filling it.
B.
"Nothing is withheld from us which we have conceived to do.
Do things that have never been done."
--Russell Kirsch
Do things that have never been done."
--Russell Kirsch
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Damn! Thought blogs were open for anyone to read. I set it for public viewing.BAS wrote:Darn, Diane, I can't connect with your blog!![]()
MySpace has been acting a little weird lately, though. Might have just hit it when it was having a minor tantrum.
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I saw a hydration pack in my local Costco for $18. Big 5 has them for $20.
$95 for a hydration pack! That's crazy!
If I wanted to pony up that much that sucker better be made of silk and silver.


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Arrgh!
Okay.
Link doesn't work, folksh.
Try this and let me know if it works:
http://tinyurl.com/eok4v
Okay.
Link doesn't work, folksh.
Try this and let me know if it works:
http://tinyurl.com/eok4v
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Yay - they offer RSS support, so I can syndicate your blog and read it on my LJ friends page! (I can't comment on it, but I figure I can always PM you if I need to get something important to you.
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(for those of you who have drunk the LJ kool-aid reading this, I added her as diane_o_thirst)

(for those of you who have drunk the LJ kool-aid reading this, I added her as diane_o_thirst)

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Yay! I'm in syndication!!! 

Oooh!
I better watch my verbiage then...I get saltier in my blog than I do anywhere else...


Oooh!

I better watch my verbiage then...I get saltier in my blog than I do anywhere else...

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Edit: The RSS page came up fine for me.
Also, the blogged list has changed. Found out the GitD gazing globe I was going to snag was sold out at Freddy's so I guess it'll just be the solar pagoda, all by her ittwe old telf...
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You know, my other ex bought me a solar gazing ball (fiber optics in the middle) two years ago, and I have yet to actually be able to bring it out with me. And something tells me Fishydear and I are going to be at a premium for space in her truck, as it is. Le sigh.

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I've seen those solar ones. Couldn't afford it, this is a little different. Basketball-sized plastic ball with glow-in-the-dark material swirled through it, collects light during the day and gives it back at night. Only $20, probably why it sold out.
Have you seen those ones with the windchimes incorporated into the pedestal? Me wanted soooo bad. Can't justify the $85 price tag, though
Cheaper if I get some copper piping and make one. (Stop me before I project again!!!)
'S okay. Spend the money on more fabric paint and do some more banners with the awning canvas Robotland sent me.
Have you seen those ones with the windchimes incorporated into the pedestal? Me wanted soooo bad. Can't justify the $85 price tag, though

'S okay. Spend the money on more fabric paint and do some more banners with the awning canvas Robotland sent me.
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the perfect safety net for your list
Personally, I fall victim with trilobyte. I have all these list for the theme camp and forget my own.
But a couple things I have discovered over the years. One, don't over pack. Sure, if you have unusual bike tires, definitely bring tubes. If not, someone near by will have them. Forget a ladder for your camp(yah, happened to me), ask the camp next to you. I have found more things than you could think of within a 3 camp radius.
The safety net. Drink Mixers! By Friday, everyone is offering up there bottle of Jack Daniels or Jose Cuervo. What everyone is missing, cranberry juice, margarita mix, red bull/rockstar, etc. I take an extra case of cranberry juice every year and have yet to return with any. Some of my best times have been by offering up some mixers.
So whatever you forget, the mixer can find :-)
But a couple things I have discovered over the years. One, don't over pack. Sure, if you have unusual bike tires, definitely bring tubes. If not, someone near by will have them. Forget a ladder for your camp(yah, happened to me), ask the camp next to you. I have found more things than you could think of within a 3 camp radius.
The safety net. Drink Mixers! By Friday, everyone is offering up there bottle of Jack Daniels or Jose Cuervo. What everyone is missing, cranberry juice, margarita mix, red bull/rockstar, etc. I take an extra case of cranberry juice every year and have yet to return with any. Some of my best times have been by offering up some mixers.
So whatever you forget, the mixer can find :-)