The Bar 2014 Edition

^Rhino! · Post by **^Rhino!** » Wed Sep 10, 2014 9:36 am

Since Monday, it's been 'hit the ground running' at work. One huge multi-bridge construction job dropped into my lap. A soil survey is required by Oct.15. Utility clearances MUST be completed by next Monday. I made the appropriate one-call notification a week in advance, and they have 2 daysto mark everything. I field check it, noting locations, and then we go get borings done, and then laboratory samples are submitted to the lab, and lab data goes into the report.

Thursday, I leave for Salem, Missouri for another annual meeting of the Association of Missouri Geologists, my 23rd consecutive year. Friday's field trip.....UNDERGROUND! We will descend 1250' straight down into the Viburnum trend ore body, a major deposit of lead, zinc, silver, and copper. Sampling is allowed on this trip. YES! Back to Salem for the annual banquet and business meeting and another field trip the following day.

I'm STILL cleaning from the playa.

nilasnake · Post by **nilasnake** » Wed Sep 10, 2014 9:46 am

rhino, it's amazing you can hit the ground running. i''v been sitting at work for 3 days and am still in a fog. my eyes look at papers on my desk, but my brain can determine what to do with them. or simply doesn't want to. create my budget for 2015 on the new format? nope.

unjonharley · Post by **unjonharley** » Wed Sep 10, 2014 10:03 am

So, these jumper cables come into the bar late last night.. I happened to be behind the bar at the time.. I said I'll serve you ,but don't start anything

Blueschaser · Post by **Blueschaser** » Wed Sep 10, 2014 11:01 am

Unjon, That reminds me: Jill & I came back from temple burn to find the departed neighbors had gifted us a portable jumper cable box gizmo. (We had a newer rental minivan; though the remote key fob battery was dead. Had to get out manual to start the car Monday.)
And thanks for being the Chief of the Chain Gang!
JP

Elliot · Post by **Elliot** » Wed Sep 10, 2014 11:17 am

"Unjon and the Chain Gang" -- the name of my new rock band.

MyDearFriend · Post by **MyDearFriend** » Wed Sep 10, 2014 12:23 pm

Well I am waiting for my laundry to cycle while being driven insane by a truck full of generators in the alley outside, noise and poisonous fumes, going for three hours now trying to cook some pesky bed bugs to death in an apartment a couple stories up from me.

So I am having a Miss Jane Marple Moment, courtesy of Graidawg:

miss jane marple moment.jpg

Tastes rather like root beer!

^Rhino! · Post by **^Rhino!** » Wed Sep 10, 2014 2:30 pm

nilasnake wrote:rhino, it's amazing you can hit the ground running. i''v been sitting at work for 3 days and am still in a fog. my eyes look at papers on my desk, but my brain can determine what to do with them. or simply doesn't want to. create my budget for 2015 on the new format? nope.

Nilasnake, it's borne of necessity that I'm able to do this. Some ADD patients have the developed abilityto go into a highly concentrative state where no noise, person, or situation can bother them; psychologists refer to it as 'hyperfocus', the ability to concentrate on something to the exlclusion of all else. It used to get me into trouble when I was in high school, until Mom came down to the basement to get me one day while I was working on my homework:

"What are you still doing down here in the basement? Oh, your homework....dinner's ready."

my response: " Hm."

Forty-five minutes later I was in the kitchen wondering where supper was, but my English homework was done.

It was a great state of mind later in undergraduate school for paleontology: I still remember the genera of over 200 different fossil organisms, from my favorite bug-eyed trilobite Phacops rana to the archeosponge Archeoscyphia anulata. I aced paleontology.

Sunbeam56 · Post by **Sunbeam56** » Wed Sep 10, 2014 4:34 pm

MDF - the dandelion wine looks wonderful. Where does it get the color?

Rhino - i get your focus. I used to love tests. Sometimes i would come out of a test literally feverish... So elated with knowing stuff... Yeah, i've been called that too.

Tonight its a glass of chardonnay and advil. I really need to remember my age.

Jovankat · Post by **Jovankat** » Wed Sep 10, 2014 4:54 pm

Yeah I prefer exams to assignments any day. Writing an essay is like pulling teeth.

In other news I was supposed to be flying back to Sydney tonight but I've decided to stay a while longer.

robbidobbs · Post by **robbidobbs** » Wed Sep 10, 2014 5:09 pm

<robbidobbs stumbles into the bar! hoists a box of Fat Tire onto the bar! cracks one and murmurs...>
I'm in pimped Pottie Hell. Lisa Bloom just fucked the day lights out the shitters, fuckyouverymuch.
And I had to give the bad news to the sweet artist that created the clusterfuck mess.
Shutthefuckupanddrink <she murmurs>

Sunbeam56 · Post by **Sunbeam56** » Wed Sep 10, 2014 5:12 pm

This sounds like a two beer story... What happened?

robbidobbs · Post by **robbidobbs** » Wed Sep 10, 2014 5:19 pm

LISA FUCKING BLOOM HAPPENED! (Whoops, bullhorn left on)
I have been fighting pimped potties for my entire fucking career, and now they're getting national fucking media attention!

The only things in the shitters should be tp and your ass!
Everything else is not just potential but fucking probable poop moop.

MyDearFriend · Post by **MyDearFriend** » Wed Sep 10, 2014 5:22 pm

Oh, that sucks, Robbie!

*cracks open a second beer*

*offers it silently*

robbidobbs · Post by **robbidobbs** » Wed Sep 10, 2014 5:26 pm

Fucking sucks giant hairy moose roots in the summertime MDF.
I cleared things up w the artist, it's just a nightmare that keeps getting worse w all the "positive feedback" all over the fucking internet. WTF?!? I'm the wet rag now that's telling people that decorated potties are by definition bad. Sucks to be me right now.

Jovankat · Post by **Jovankat** » Wed Sep 10, 2014 5:32 pm

Just did a Google to discover who and what you're talking about. This caption under a picture of her made me cringe "Lisa in her role as a burner"

robbidobbs · Post by **robbidobbs** » Wed Sep 10, 2014 5:35 pm

Fucking tourist is what she is. Do a shift w me in the Poop Mobile and I'll clear her right the fuck up!

Post by **AntiM** » Wed Sep 10, 2014 6:13 pm

robbidobbs wrote:Fucking tourist is what she is. Do a shift w me in the Poop Mobile and I'll clear her right the fuck up!

I looked at the comments, someone named Alex pimped it out. How the hell do the pumper guys do their job with that nonsense there? Yes, I let the shit fly.

robbidobbs · Post by **robbidobbs** » Wed Sep 10, 2014 6:18 pm

Yep, I've talked w him already. I think I've got him cleared up. That doesn't say tha 20 other people will think its a good idea.

Post by **trilobyte** » Wed Sep 10, 2014 6:45 pm

Boo on potty pimpers!

Sorry to have missed you too, Yggy, but damn it was great to finally see frankencamper on the playa. I don't think Pani believed me when I told her what it was, then as we rode up she just looked on in amazement "holy shit, it's real!"

Sorry to have missed you as well, MDF.. and quite a few others, too. Was that you with Grai who'd left a note at camp near the end of the week while we were out? I wound up at camp more than I expected (helping to cover things for pizza service, since a couple of our leads had to cancel their burn plans at the last minute), but when I got out I kept heading far out into the playa. Ironically I never got to go into Embrace (closed for private events every time), didn't get to see Eternal Return in action (it was down on the night I found it), and never made it out to Wabi Sabi's amazing observatory (we had some issues with our trike batteries, and the pedaling got insanely tough in those deep playa dunes).

On the plus side, looks like I'll get to check out Eternal Return in action after all. We just got tix to the annual Space Cowboys halloween throwdown - this year it'll not only have some amazing art, but will be a stone's throw from our place.

Okay, time to crank through the last bits of laundry and start making some drinks!

robbidobbs · Post by **robbidobbs** » Wed Sep 10, 2014 6:49 pm

Fuck Trilo, you can't do everything you want to do at BM, you know that.
<sits the fuck down on the dusty couch and cracks another Fat Tire>

MyDearFriend · Post by **MyDearFriend** » Wed Sep 10, 2014 7:43 pm

Yes Trilo that was me with Grai & Elorrum, we left some schwag for you & Pani, not as nice as what you make but hey we tried.

I walked by your camp a few times but never found you in or open, oh well, next year was better!!!

And this was the year I found Ygmir in his camp not once but TWICE

and got to eat fresh baked pie made by Little Flower

and, made it out to Eternal Return while Peter Hudson was there tweaking it

and got to see it running in all its glory

so I have no complaints. Best Burn Ever.

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Wed Sep 10, 2014 8:05 pm

Hi gang!

yay for great burns, boo for missing folks, and yay for friends,no matter!
the "yay's" win...........

now, to find the "sometimes your just lucky thread".......

Post by **AntiM** » Thu Sep 11, 2014 2:26 am

What did you do now?

My burn was most excellent and parts of it sucked. As usual.

Middle of the night. So quiet I can hear the cat snoring. Moonlight keeps waking me up. And hot flashes. Dammit. I can feel the air outside my window is cold, but it is not cooling me off. What crap.

Simon of the Playa · Post by **Simon of the Playa** » Thu Sep 11, 2014 5:23 am

our burn was a little too short, and we did not get to see all of the people we wanted to see either...

we never even made it past 6 oclock except to do perimeter on alien siege.

but we did sit around a lot, with our friends, in the dust, in creaky lawnchairs, drinking warmish beer, and shooting the dusty breeze...

it was fabulous.

we took a quick playa art tour after embrace burn, the playa was cool and cloudy and everybody went to sleep....we woke up at 6 am, had coffee and were perky.....most people had stayed up the whole night...the morning playa was perfect....goldilocks zone...

had coffee with goathead at center camp, and then walked the esplanade all the way down to 2.

at 8-10 am in the morning , there is a stillness to the city that i really like...

i yelled and chased down someone who i thought was Trilo and Pani one night, but it was some german dude and his girlfriend in a space-steam-punk get up...

i don't know if he knew english that well, he looked kinda terrified as i ran up to him yelling "TRILO TRILO"...

Anti M and HerLarry were the first people we saw at the airport, which was magical, as they had beer for us....

i saw SHAM and his car, EspressoDude and his mighty cannon, and most of the sideshow-illumination village burners.

and of course, we stayed at the morris for burn night, which was as adorable as a puppy chasing it's tail...

all in all, pretty damn good...

MyDearFriend · Post by **MyDearFriend** » Thu Sep 11, 2014 7:05 am

I had a good Burn, too, Simon, though I regret not finding you out there.

Let me have a virtual drink here, folks, one of many over the next few days I hope, because as of 12 noon EST I go on duty for the next 90 hours, at which point I get a 4-hour break from 8 am to noon on Monday... yikes.

*goes looking for the "Lucky" thread*

robbidobbs · Post by **robbidobbs** » Thu Sep 11, 2014 7:48 am

(((Jim)))
What a touching and beautiful last moments story. I'm so glad he held on until he could be with you. Like you, he no doubt lived his life the way he wanted, and was very proud of you, dear son. Your boundless compassion and strength is now needed for your family. Faith and love is what you and your family can celebrate in memory of your father. The lessons he taught and the example he gave as a man and father will continue, an eternal gift that passes on for generations.
Shalom Aleichem

^Rhino! · Post by **^Rhino!** » Thu Sep 11, 2014 8:07 am

Simon comes to center camp and sees goathead but misses me at the Beacon. Sounds about right....I was all over keeping the Beacon running. Had to go back into Empire before Gate even opened to get a second load of stuff from storage(I packed both my vehicle AND my trailer to the roof both times)and three more times during the burn to get the freshly-printed papers from Reno that are delivered to Empire.

I gave two lectures at Earth Guardians. Mike Bilbo indicated I'll be invited back next year. My answer in advance? Yes, I'll do it.

I attended the M & G, and participated in the 1st Chocolate Martini mixoff.....

I got to the the burn from on high this year as a guest of Earth Guardians, on top of their scaffold. Good pyro, solid burn, but an hour and a half for the Man to fall of it's own accord? They built that baby tough. Had to have been....it weighed 35 tons.

Missed Trilo, but saw Bobzilla and Decibel over at BMIR, goathead and God at Homebrew Camp, and was visited by a myriad of Rangers - tapestry, Kimistry, Philimanjaro, and even got to see Ranger Kiote over at the 12-mile outpost. All in fine form and spirits.

Special note to sunbeam: using your hyperfocus in preparation for the courtroom is an advantage. Have you used it for that?

Love all you kiddies.

Post by **trilobyte** » Thu Sep 11, 2014 8:15 am

That's okay, I shouted SIMON! loudly at what turned out to be a complete stranger, too.

In a weird way, the missed connections were typical. Every year it seems like I miss connecting with bunches of people I'm really hoping to see, but along the way running into just as many (if not more) people I wasn't expecting to see, and connecting with people I hadn't yet met in person. Or in a few cases, people I see and work with at HQ all the time, but never get to spend time with on the playa.

MDF, the rubber stamp bar/pickles/lemonade was open a lot less this year than last. Since we had Space & Thyme (which is a delivery operation, no walk-ups) and two of the three leads ended up missing the burn with last minute cancellations, we had to devote more resources into making sure that went smoothly. Both because we needed to make sure the dough and supplies got used but because it required a lot more care from a health department standpoint. We also had a lot fewer pickles this year, since the 1 gallon jars we'd been getting at the local warehouse joint are no longer available. In past years we'd leave the rubber stamps out for people to 'self serve' - but after a few went missing last year it became something we felt should only be done when there was someone available to 'work the counter' (which I prefer, since it makes for great interactions and connections).

I never went into Center Camp, but was popping in and out of Media Mecca all week, but never got to check out the other camps in the ring or visiting Rhino, Mitch, and Rocky at the Beacon.

^Rhino! · Post by **^Rhino!** » Thu Sep 11, 2014 8:20 am

trilobyte wrote:I never went into Center Camp, but was popping in and out of Media Mecca all week, but never got to check out the other camps in the ring or visiting Rhino, Mitch, and Rocky at the Beacon.

Rocky and I were there. Mitch didn't make it this year, though he was there in spirit and in the articles.

VultureChow · Post by **VultureChow** » Thu Sep 11, 2014 8:39 am

I saw Eric's (slightly) younger doppelganger one day. Though I think the facial hair was from an iteration or two ago.

Decompression sucks for the first time ever. Having your best burn ever and then coming home to various work crises is not what I would recommend. So I'm biting the bullet. Going to go to St. Croix in January for a few days of drinking on the beach at our condo. Anyone want to join me? The airfare is expensive but the lodging is free.

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