The Bar, Volume #4

[delle]

"BE THE STRANGE YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD" which has hung around my husband's neck since 2011 has now been sistered with this year's "REASONABLY GOOD CHANCE OF SURVIVAL"

My own "DON'T PANIC" of '11 has had an addendum of "WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG" this year.

[magicmarty]

Finally getting back a bit of equilibrium. So good to see so many of you here. ((((MDF)))) what a special lady, ((((Delle))))) more than a bundle of energy. dang this is dangerous. So many wonderful peeps and so weak a recall to name you all. Great M&G, best evah! Not too early to start planning for 2014. Starting to work on a small personal art car.

MDW (My Dear Wife) turns 80 this weekend Amazing lady ... played tennis singles against a woman half her age on Thursday and felt bad that she only won 4 games! She is the reason that I can enjoy my Burning Man experience the way that I do. We both subscribe to the thought that we "Bask in the joy of each other's joy." Very fortunate if you have that in your life. Took us both a long time for that to be.

Tour Guiding was a real treat this year with some of the very best art that I have seen on the Playa. Plan to do more of that next year. Great group of folks in the ARTery and in the Art Tours gang. We meet almost all year round and so have become a family. Had a wonderful story teller drop in on our Camp Althing who regaled us with wonderful, spellbinding stories one afternoon. On another day and beautiful young woman asked if she could play the violin for us. The wondrous serendipity of the Playa. Dang, I really miss it already. How many days till the man burns?

And of course, (((LF)))

[lucky420]

[quote="magicmarty"]Finally getting back a bit of equilibrium. So good to see so many of you here. ((((MDF)))) what a special lady, ((((Delle))))) more than a bundle of energy. dang this is dangerous. So many wonderful peeps and so weak a recall to name you all. Great M&G, best evah! Not too early to start planning for 2014. Starting to work on a small personal art car.

MDW (My Dear Wife) turns 80 this weekend Amazing lady ... played tennis singles against a woman half her age on Thursday and felt bad that she only won 4 games! She is the reason that I can enjoy my Burning Man experience the way that I do. We both subscribe to the thought that we "Bask in the joy of each other's joy." Very fortunate if you have that in your life. Took us both a long time for that to be.

Tour Guiding was a real treat this year with some of the very best art that I have seen on the Playa. Plan to do more of that next year. Great group of folks in the ARTery and in the Art Tours gang. We meet almost all year round and so have become a family. Had a wonderful story teller drop in on our Camp Althing who regaled us with wonderful, spellbinding stories one afternoon. On another day and beautiful young woman asked if she could play the violin for us. The wondrous serendipity of the Playa. Dang, I really miss it already. How many days till the man burns?

And of course, (((LF)))[/quot

Aww what a lucky man you are Marty and I've got to say she is pretty lucky too...

[magicmarty]

Thanks, (((((Lucky)))))

[Captain Goddammit]

It you see that art car with bras hanging on it, give them the finger. They TOOK my bra offa me and then 'had to go'. It was the last bar of the night and I didn't know they were mobil. I was left on J or K street to crawl back to my beddy. It was Molly something.

You wear a bra in BRC? I should have taken it from you myself! (in a non-forceful cooperative way of course)

[trilobyte]

Thanks guys. It was a hard year, but a good one. I hardly got to see/meet/visit anything it seems, but I also got to see some amazing stuff, meet and connect and spend time with truly exceptional people, and somehow managed to survive it all.

C.f.M. - glad you like the tags I didn't do dogtags in 2012. I laser-cut a pendant from sheets of acrylic in 3 colors to make a pendant last year (black, red, and a translucent fluorescent green). Those were a pain in the butt to make, and then when we got to the playa realized that the environment affected the acrylic and made them more brittle, so I stopped offering them out by mid-week (I didn't want to add to anyone's MOOP). I have a few of those hanging around still (PM me if you'd like one).

[Mohairs]

Morning, Mo!

Sorry I missed you....

[gyre]

Me too.
I missed everybody!

[LeChatNoir]

Me too! Me too!

Glad to hear so many good tales from this year. (Like the new avatar trilo)

And I'm really enjoying the photo that are floating about the various inter web spots too.

[LeChatNoir]

(Makes pancakes and link sausages for any late arrivals)

[tattoogoddess]

My boss stared me down tonight and gave me the stern boss look and said, you and I are going on vacation together, we are going to eat a tin of food, be drunk and wear are swim suits and not give a shit. I'm serious Danielle.

We had kinda joked around with the idea of doing a cruise or an all inclusive before, but she is for real now. She needs some girl time, I can't blame her. I need some to. Me and my boss share just about everything. I have been there scenes the pub opened. So we have a bond not like the other employees.

So question one... Is this weird? My boss and I going on vacation together? I mean we do thanksgiving together, I was part of her wedding (hair, makeup and helped with some planning) I've spent the night at her house many times. I just consider her a friend.

Two. Where should we go!! Caribbean? Jamaica? Mexico? All inclusive required. We have called this the "tour de fat" lol so free food. Hush, don't judge me! Lol

Oh and found out the new employee they hired..... Burner. Fuck how many of us are there in Iowa!!??

[goathead]

Sounds like a girl time.

We just burn shit, blow stuff up, and drink a lot.

[goathead]

*wanders in, makes CCCB*
HI GH!! dang good to see a little more of you here lately.
Hi MDF!!

well, here's lookin at ya!

*Heads for ROS*

Got to enjoy it while I can. Shit's going to get intense again in about a year.
LMAO, trying to live on regular paychecks right now suck, dam I like being home and having a schedule right now though, even if it is a little fucked up.



If it's outlawed in California, it must be fun.

[C.f.M.]

I feel 20 again, getting home post-dawn. Of course, I wouldn't have had all this fancy internet back then, and all this wonderful internet-related friends. Breakfast in bed for everyone.

[delle]

((((Delle))))) ... dangerous.

((((Marty)))) How lovely to see you again!!! ALWAYS a treat!!!

I wanted to let you know that the day spent walking off my "ANAL" stencil was one of my favorites.

What's good to note tho is that eventually that the bulk of the paint ends up concentrated in your butt crack, turns from purple to a sickly brown with time and just looks like a horrible embarrassment.

Fortunately or unfortunately I did not discover this until I got in front of an actual mirror after the event.

This may or may not explain some of the vaguely horrified looks I got as I flashed my predicament around.

Live and learn I guess.

[goathead]

That explains the mystery stain on that chair....









Just kidding.

[delle]

Nah. I'm a leave no trace kinda gal.

[AntiM]

Morning all. Breakfast in bed, indeed. Although if I wake Larry up, he'll want breakfast.

We've had to burn "that" camp chair. Everyone has, yeah?

TTG, destination of an all inclusive cruise doesn't matter much. The quality of the ship matters, and whether or not is is infested with small children. We did three days all inclusive (of a week long vacation) at a resort in Cancun. The waiter brought us our drinks, plus munchies by the pool all afternoon. As in, here's your drinks, plus would you like these margaritas and shots of tequila I happen to have on my tray? Sure? Okay! I'm still wrecked. But personally, I won't go on one of the new super cruise ships, they look like top-heavy monstrosities. We went to Hawaii back when Matson had luxury cruisers in the 60s. Dinner was formal, and the menu in French. Good food forever, all the time, all inclusive before the term was popular, when a cruiseliner was still considered first class transportation. The Navy sent my dad, and they used to have the "surface" option of travel. Wowza. Nope, now days I prefer a shore based monstrosity such as a resort.

[delle]

infested with small children.

Blech. Def something to keep in mind!!!

The only cruise I'd ever consider is this one: http://www.jamcruise.com/

A definite bonus is that your PlayaWear would fit right in!!!

[ygmir]

*wanders in, makes CCCW*
HI gang!
Headin up to Piney's in a little while for the air races/decom/campout soiree.


*pushes tv clicker, heads for ROS*

[media]

[MyDearFriend]

I love you people!!!

Am about to head out to visit my poor demented mother. Please send your best wishes. I cling to the advice given to Citizens by the Night Vale Sheriff's Secret Police:

"If you see something, say nothing, and drink to forget."



((((((Hugs)))))) to all.

[graidawg]

*sigh* london is cold and wet.

[ygmir]

I hope it can be the best possible, MDF..........good on ya for hangin in.

Hey GD! your statement brings to mind a tune:

[media]

[Ratty]

Eplaya in the park at the SF Decom. 3pm I'll be there. I hope we get to 'greet' again this year. It was fun last year with Uncle Ira and Teal. I have to come!! There's no other use for all my leftover swag. 2013 ain't commin back. I even need to get rid of the rest of those M&G nametags. Anybody here named Douche?

[Elliot]

infested with small children.

Blech. Def something to keep in mind!!!
...

Somebody in BRC gave me a bumper sticker that reads:

"You can have Burning Man or you can have kids. You cannot have both."

It even has a picture of a bawling baby.

[Elorrum]

O.K. time for me to buckle down and embrace the other 51 weeks. Rounding down to 50 or 49 is accepted. The two or three weeks after are recovery. so, let's say, 47 to be certain. Next Friday is the SF Academy of Science adult sleepover. You can spend the night in the Aquarium, African Hall, or Lower Swamp (?I'll have to see what this is in any case.) I'm hoping to have a good time, solo bad-ass stylee, if necessary. Using burst-into-flames rule for transit. Meaning I must get in the car, get on the highway, get there, and I may turn back if I burst into flames. A good rule for those feeling insecure about social events, who have no accountability to companions. It hasn't happened yet, and I always do have a good time. We get to wear silly pajamas and outfits, so I think I can rustle something up, at least a hat. I remember the old trick to whiten gym sneakers with white shoe paint. I think I'll try it on my pith helmet, and put a new fiber optic plume in it.

Grai, and MDF... big hugs, keep at it.

[delle]

Eplaya in the park at the SF Decom. 3pm I'll be there. I hope we get to 'greet' again this year. It was fun last year with Uncle Ira and Teal. I have to come!! There's no other use for all my leftover swag. 2013 ain't commin back. I even need to get rid of the rest of those M&G nametags. Anybody here named Douche?

Ken has deemed his "Douche" tag one of his Most Precious Things. That along with the time speaking with you, which he recalls most fondly.

Unfortunately I -- probably the most in need of one there as I CRASHED the Party -- forgot to pick one up.

At least I made it home with All My Shit. Even tho it was found on the ground outside the tent the next day perfectly laid out on the ground like an accident silhouette (which it most definitely was). I don't believe I've ever driven my bike with such concentration before!!! Ken, following as the near-sober spotter, was quite impressed with my focus at least.

We laughed heartily later in the day when we realized that I'd uprooted every single guyline on that side of the tent with my return. Hence the not-so-delicate landing.

[delle]

I love you people!!!

Am about to head out to visit my poor demented mother. Please send your best wishes. I cling to the advice given to Citizens by the Night Vale Sheriff's Secret Police:

"If you see something, say nothing, and drink to forget."



((((((Hugs)))))) to all.

((((MDF))))

[Patsh]

Gotta admit though, Delle, that was funny...

eta: (your landing)

[delle]

It really was.

Always a good sign when you can't get up because you're laughing too hard rather than because you're broken.