The Bar

Rockdad · Post by **Rockdad** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 11:07 pm

Hey LCN! Have some cake...

Geekster that is a great idea would love to help but I have enough on my plate already as far as Hijacking I just use Flickr for stuff I want to last for awile like apokilipitika thread pictures or FTP them up to my site just faster to hijack in here!
And the whole Bandwidth thing as never really affected me really it is so cheap nowadays

geekster · Post by **geekster** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 11:14 pm

I'm not looking for help, because I am not gonna do it. I figured I would toss the idea out there and if someone was searching for ideas for a project or something, maybe they could run with it. I worked for over a week on-playa on a project last year, every single day. This year I will be sticking close to camp, doing camp stuff, interacting with the locals.

blueniteowl · Post by **blueniteowl** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 11:32 pm

Hi Geekster!

Nice to see you around again.

LeChatNoir · Post by **LeChatNoir** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 11:33 pm

Jeez... got lost in the ether for a minute.

Hey Blue!!!

blueniteowl · Post by **blueniteowl** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 11:34 pm

Howdy Mr. Noir!

Long time, no see. What's been happening in the life of a black cat?

LeChatNoir · Post by **LeChatNoir** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 11:46 pm

Oh little of this... little of that...

Lots of forging in the shop going on these days. Haven’t had wine from a box in a very long time. Hung up on Yellowtail right now. You?

blueniteowl · Post by **blueniteowl** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 12:04 am

Trying to work on some personal stuff and a plan to move. Things change from day to day and I have my good days as well as bad. But I think I'm heading in the right direction anyways and that's a good thing.

Hee! Yellowtail isn't too bad. I'm glad to hear you are moving up in the world.

Ooo, I may have some metal crafty questions for you soon as I'm starting to brainstorm about a project for the playa this year and could probably use your help. Granted, I'm still in the early stages of this idea. But I have a feeling that you may know some useful, pertinent information that could help me.

LeChatNoir · Post by **LeChatNoir** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 12:08 am

When ready, ask away. I am a great cavernous, commodious vat full of two or three bits of useful information.

Moving?

LeChatNoir · Post by **LeChatNoir** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 12:10 am

I'm glad to hear you are moving up in the world.

(Looking up from the gutter)

Thanks!!

blueniteowl · Post by **blueniteowl** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 12:10 am

Hee! I'm planning to move to the bay area sometime within the next six months. Hopefully I'll be able to pull it off sooner, but if not then I've got a plan for five or six months.

LeChatNoir · Post by **LeChatNoir** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 12:16 am

Ahhhh... so the relationship goes well, yes? Nice.

I visited The City after the last Burn and fell in love with it. Had some damn good sushi. Great vibe. I really liked Sausalito, too. But damn... expensive to live there, though I suspect you know that already.

geekster · Post by **geekster** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 12:20 am

The economy out here is doing a lot better than it had been. One thing I would mention to anyone ever thinking of moving here is to take a good look at housing costs. It's expensive to find a place to live here compared to other regions of the country. Comparable to NYC, Boston, or Washington DC. A couple of local newspaper websites:

http://www.sfgate.com/ San Francisco Chronicle

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/ San Jose Mercury News

There's also lots of stuff on Craigslist for places to rent or share.

blueniteowl · Post by **blueniteowl** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 12:27 am

Yep, I just got back from visiting SF, went for the first few days of March. Had a fabulous time visiting, wandering and seeing friends.

I am aware of the expense of the city. But my current frame of mind is that any city can be expensive if you don't live within your means. For example, I lived alone in Minneapolis in a studio apartment that I spent over half of my monthly earnings on. I racked up credit card debt and stayed in a job that only paid my seven dollars an hour.

I intend to find a roomate and hopefully a decent job and will probably not take my car and plan to use public transportation. Also, I plan to live within my means.

Chai Guy · Post by **Chai Guy** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 12:29 am

And Ahem..... I seem to remember that you might have also visited Nevada during that same trip????

LeChatNoir · Post by **LeChatNoir** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 12:35 am

...I intend to find a roomate and hopefully a decent job and will probably not take my car and plan to use public transportation. Also, I plan to live within my means.

Sounds like a good start to me.

Howdy, Chai!!!

LeChatNoir · Post by **LeChatNoir** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 12:37 am

Ok peoples... I’m way beyond tired. Have a great day tomorrow!!!

See yall later!!

blueniteowl · Post by **blueniteowl** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 12:39 am

Chai Guy wrote:And Ahem..... I seem to remember that you might have also visited Nevada during that same trip????

Why yes, I think I did. And I had a wonderful time there as well. Even when certain people became grumpy because they were no longer good at bowling.

Heeee!

blueniteowl · Post by **blueniteowl** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 12:40 am

Good night Mr. Noir

Chai Guy · Post by **Chai Guy** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 12:43 am

Hey La Chat!

I keep telling her that she needs to rent one of those cool "penthouse" modular apartments at the shipyard. http://www.theshipyard.org/

blueniteowl · Post by **blueniteowl** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 12:45 am

I think that link may be broken.

And what is this "keep telling" me thing? I believe you brought it up once. Though I do appreciate your effort. But you know that already. At least I hope you do.

Anyways...

Chai Guy · Post by **Chai Guy** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 12:49 am

I think I mentioned it at least twice, and anyways you said it was too expensive, but I'm thinking it's CHEAP!

And anyways, I was NEVER good at bowling, so THERE!

And anyways, what kinda drugs do you have to take to approximate your age at 33.

And ANYWAYS....

blueniteowl · Post by **blueniteowl** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 12:55 am

Oh sure, never good at bowling? A likely excuse!

And do I have to remind you of how old you originally thought I was? It may not have been thirty three, but I seem to remember it being higher than my actual age.

Pbltptptptpt!

Chai Guy · Post by **Chai Guy** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 1:03 am

WHATEVA!

blueniteowl · Post by **blueniteowl** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 1:05 am

Ooo, do I see someone being grumpy again? I think I do.

Chai Guy · Post by **Chai Guy** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 1:19 am

check your inbox!

blueniteowl · Post by **blueniteowl** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 1:21 am

Smooch!

It's checked.

Chai Guy · Post by **Chai Guy** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 1:30 am

Oh yeah, so like the other thing...

Once you've totally mastered the Craigslist housing thing, you get to see the places that stay vacant forever (and understand why), you also see the places with a lot of turn-over, and you get good at "reading between the lines" and figuring out what's really going on with the people renting these places.

SF is the weirdest housing market I've ever seen. In LA it seems like rents are based on location, square footage, amenities and such. In SF, rents are so unrelated to any of those things due to rent control. It's amazing to find a really nice place in a decent neighborhood for $400 with a washer/dryer and your own bathroom, then look at a dive in a crummy hood for $850. It makes NO sense!

blueniteowl · Post by **blueniteowl** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 1:46 am

Right.

Now check your inbox.

Chai Guy · Post by **Chai Guy** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 1:54 am

I already did!

blueniteowl · Post by **blueniteowl** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 1:58 am

Hey, so I've been meaning to ask you what's with you and dabomb's picture being the icon for the LA burning man tribe?