One Item for BMan 2013 a Day

[Celery (Jamey)]

I've got 4 tents. The thing I learned after the first one... It's important to be able to stand up when you are putting your pants on.

[VultureChow]

I've been so inspired by these daily preparation updates... I love this thread. Today, we bought our tent for burning man and it is huge and awesome! Thank you so very much to IllyDilly who suggested this tent in my introduction thread months ago. I did a ton of research, decided it was the best bang for my buck and then waited for a sale We just set it up in the driveway and I already feel like it's our home away from home, as a backpacker, I'm not used to this kind of luxury... being able to do a jumping jack in a tent?!?!? awesome.

What did you get?

[RosieTahoe]

http://www.big5sportinggoods.com/produc ... -tent.html is the tent I bought. And upon Illy dilly's suggestion I will use one of the side doors as the front door, use the first "room" as the entry take-off-all-your-crap room, then the center HUGE room will be for all our clothes and our hang out part (center height is 6'9" so no changing laying down for my 6'1" husband!) and the final room will be our bedroom, hopefully staying more dust free.

[Savannah]

I've got 4 tents. The thing I learned after the first one... It's important to be able to stand up when you are putting your pants on.

Not only this, but if you can't stand in your tent and have thin skin like mine, you will have bruised knees by day 3 or 4, from all the crawling.

[VultureChow]

I've got 4 tents. The thing I learned after the first one... It's important to be able to stand up when you are putting your pants on.

Not only this, but if you can't stand in your tent and have thin skin like mine, you will have bruised knees by day 3 or 4, from all the crawling.

Having a tall tent is no barrier to winding up with bruised knees.

[tattoogoddess]

I've got 4 tents. The thing I learned after the first one... It's important to be able to stand up when you are putting your pants on.

Not only this, but if you can't stand in your tent and have thin skin like mine, you will have bruised knees by day 3 or 4, from all the crawling.

Are you sure that's what it is from jk.

We have the crawl around type tent. Really giving some thought to a new one this year. I HATED crawling around!!

[clocksnmirrors]

We have the crawl around type tent. Really giving some thought to a new one this year. I HATED crawling around!!

one word: HEXAYURT! seriously you'll love it.

[Sham]

For those of you crawling around your low tents, here is a good suggestion to keep crawling to a minimum. It sits just 10 inches high, but lets you get dressed and washed up while sitting down. It's tiny enough to pack in a suit case. (Big Lots/Odd Lots $3) Called a pocket chair.

[BeeWeeDee]

May have to start over on this mask - I kept trying it on as it was being put together and as soon as I put the gesso on it seemed to shrink. Right now it is slated for gifting and somebody else can decorate or paint it to suit.

On the lanyards and vials of playa dust.... They look like they might accidentally hang somebody without a break away feature. Think of the necktie in the rotating piece of machinery.

[VultureChow]

On the lanyards and vials of playa dust.... They look like they might accidentally hang somebody without a break away feature. Think of the necktie in the rotating piece of machinery.

In the wise words of Foxfur:


Though I would hope to go in a slightly more spectacular fashion than slowly strangled by a nylon lanyard.

[Drawingablank]

On the lanyards and vials of playa dust.... They look like they might accidentally hang somebody without a break away feature. Think of the necktie in the rotating piece of machinery.

Safety Third.

May have to start over on this mask - I kept trying it on as it was being put together and as soon as I put the gesso on it seemed to shrink. Right now it is slated for gifting and somebody else can decorate or paint it to suit.

If that is paper mache, keep in mind that it continues to shrink for a long time after making it. The thicker the mache the more weeks it might take to fully dry - even though the surface may seem bone dry, the inside dries much slower. One alternative is to build it up in layers allowing it to dry before adding the next layer.

[clocksnmirrors]

One alternative is to build it up in layers allowing it to dry before adding the next layer.

you also might try letting it dry on a rigid form that won't allow the shape to change as the mache contracts

[theCryptofishist]

On the lanyards and vials of playa dust.... They look like they might accidentally hang somebody without a break away feature. Think of the necktie in the rotating piece of machinery.

That explains the Great Ranger Die-Off of 2009...

[Elorrum]

NO CAPES! - Edna Mode

[clocksnmirrors]

yaaaaaaay! my boots arrived today!

a little tight at first but i pounded the shit out of them and they're going to be just fine by the time for the burn

[theCryptofishist]

clocks, I hate to say this, but when you say "I pounded the shit out of them," my mind does unwholesome things.

[clocksnmirrors]

ahahahahahaha

great. now i have THAT stuck in my mind.....

[Savannah]

Hahahaha!

What makes it worse is that, uh . . . you could have the boots professionally stretched.

Although I don't like to imply that you're not capable of it yourself.

[clocksnmirrors]

actually i know where the shoe shop is

but i was so anxious to wear them that i had to do a little preliminary work


as in other places in life, an extra quarter inch would be nice

[TT120]

Y'all crack me up! I can't wait to meet everyone at the MnG.

[unjonharley]

Y'all crack me up! I can't wait to meet everyone at the MnG.

The meet and greet is a myth..

[BBadger]

We should call clocksnmirrors the "Stretch Genie". I need to stop watching those damn late-night commercials...

[TT120]

I wonder if that spray and stretch stuff would work on my......um.....oh, never mind.

[Bounce530]

Kind of an odd "thing a day" but...
I was laid off my job of 22 years last month, so one of my first thoughts (not the first, but one of the top 5 at least) was to figure my finances for the rest of the year to the worst extreme (not being able to find a job within the next month or so) and figuring budgets and such. In doing that I was able to figure what's in the savings, and a few odd, under the table jobs that I've done since being laid off, and was able to stash my "money to burn" So, I have all the money I need for all my supplies/toys/emergency to be able to still go this year, without having to use CC's, and still keep the lights on at home. That's granted that my water heater doesn't blow through the roof, or the transmission in my daily doesn't blow up. As it stands now, I'll still be able to fund my vacation, while out of work..Now here's to hoping to find a job that will let me off for almost two weeks, shortly after starting it.

[Bounce530]

A few minutes after I posted that last ^^ post, I got an email...

GOT THE DMV INVITATION FOR THE MV!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The BRC Guardian rides again!!!

[Milayna]

Congratulations!! Do you have a pic of your MV?

[Bounce530]

Thanks!
But to avoid too much cross posting, you can see what it looked like last year in the "Denied Ouch" topic.
It'll have the same basic shape, but revamped for this year.

[tattoogoddess]

We got the bar done today. Just have to finish the canvas painting and attach it. That fucker is heavy!

[clocksnmirrors]

We got the bar done today. Just have to finish the canvas painting and attach it. That fucker is heavy!

that's pretty sweet! who's doing the painting?

[Savannah]

Nice, TG! I look forward to seeing the finished product (what's the painting of?)

Good pic of Tom, too.

Bounce, I looked at the pic in the Denied, Ouch! thread. It's a good-looking ship. Why is it called BRC Guardian? Just curious. What are those dials on the outside? . . . And what kinda changes are you going to make? Unless it's a secret. [/5-years-old]

We got the bar done today. Just have to finish the canvas painting and attach it. That fucker is heavy!

that's pretty sweet! who's doing the painting?

I am virtually certain it'll be TG! She's quite the artist. Get her to post the picture of herself in skeleton makeup!