Tell us about your progress as you prepare for your trip to Black Rock City...Victorian wrote:I'm going to start doing ONE thing for BM each day. If you would like to share as well, I'll start posting each date, and what I did, made, planned, or purchased for BM.
Let the madness begin!!!!!!
One item for BMan 2014 a day
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One item for BMan 2014 a day
Picking up where this awesome thread left off, here's a new thread for the new year. Quoting the original poster in the original thread...
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AAA membership renewed and camp dues paid.
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Oh look at you! Being all "first" and everything!
Oh my god, it's HUGE!
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Thanks Trilo! I love this thread. Victorian was a brilliant flare across our eplaya sky. I hope she makes it back some day.
Sometimes, just musing while doing dishes, and glancing at the postcards on the cork board, are my one thing.
today: yep, did that.
Sometimes, just musing while doing dishes, and glancing at the postcards on the cork board, are my one thing.
today: yep, did that.
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Double use the monkey hut.. Frame over a pile of tree limbs and cover with black plastic.. Makes a working wood shed to saw the limbs for he fire place.. Later the black plastic will cover a large (car trailer size) spread load of horse poop and yard moop.. In the early spring monkey hut over the garden.. Cover the frame with clear plastic for a hot house..
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Hammering swag in a dapping block. (and my finger).
Those aren't buttermilk biscuits I'm lying on Savannah
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Pictures or it didn't happen Greycoyote
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Suggest you hold the hammer with both hands.. No smashed fingers that way..Ratty wrote:Hammering swag in a dapping block. (and my finger).
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Started back on food tracking. Not specifically event related, but if I can drop a bit of weight, I'll be more comfortable in the desert.
So then I had quiche for lunch.
So then I had quiche for lunch.
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You're very welcome, Elorrum - I love this thread too. Like the project progress threads, I think they do a great job of showing how it all comes together. I know that it's possible for people to pull it all together in a short time and still survive, I think a good prep makes for a great burn.
I don't have much progress to report though, other than I gave one of the double-batches of limoncello a check and stir. Then back on the shelf for another two weeks!
I don't have much progress to report though, other than I gave one of the double-batches of limoncello a check and stir. Then back on the shelf for another two weeks!
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Checking into what felt like a driveline vibration in my truck last time I drove it.
BM forces me to keep that truck in good shape.
BM forces me to keep that truck in good shape.
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Re: One item for BMan 2014 a day
I got a tent! which is my first BM purchase



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Your on your way home!!Mia wrote:I got a tent! which is my first BM purchase![]()
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I considered starting to think about possibly preparing to start upgrading the poles on my tent to 1/2" EMT. That's as far as I got though...
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I'm on eplaya, that is sufficient for today.
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Yesterday, I waited all day for Jack Rabbit to speak!
Today, I'm trying to figure out what I have, what I have to buy here and what makes more sense to buy when I land (I would imagine packing a camp stove in your carry on gets you strip searched hmmmmmmm)
Today, I'm trying to figure out what I have, what I have to buy here and what makes more sense to buy when I land (I would imagine packing a camp stove in your carry on gets you strip searched hmmmmmmm)
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If you want a patdown every single time, travel in a wheelchair.
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Man, no wonder they always win....." Lonesomebri
"The powerful are exploiting people, art and ideas, and this leads to us plebes debating how to best ration ice.
Man, no wonder they always win....." Lonesomebri
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That would be more action then I gettheCryptofishist wrote:If you want a patdown every single time, travel in a wheelchair.
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Picked up another pair of goggles (because if I break or lose something, it will be something I really, really need) and have begun the sorting through of my fabric bins for useful bits-I start sewing tomorrow.
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Transferred moneys for BM on to a debt card..
I'll have one seat and load space for one person..
I'll have one seat and load space for one person..
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Sometimes I think the TSA's fucks with a person just cause they can. A few years ago we went to FL on vaca with my daughter who at the time was in a stroller and yes she should not have been because she was too big for a stroller but it was a larger "special needs" type stroller so the TSA decided he was going to go putting his face in hers even though I told him she does poorly with her space invaded. Well she hauled off and slapped him. I guess he got the attention he was seeking cause he backed off and let us go. I get that they are there to protect but.......sometimes a little common sensetheCryptofishist wrote:If you want a patdown every single time, travel in a wheelchair.
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Realized that it's actually time to start doing shit if I don't want to be running around like a headless chicken come summer.
That counts, right?
That counts, right?
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Regardless of when you start headless running is inevitable. There's never enough time.tahiti_treat wrote:Realized that it's actually time to start doing shit if I don't want to be running around like a headless chicken come summer.
That counts, right?
Or maybe that's just me.
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One item today.. Build cloaking devise for van to avoid BM road tax..
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Got a new used bike for the playa.
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The Lady with a Lamprey
"The powerful are exploiting people, art and ideas, and this leads to us plebes debating how to best ration ice.
Man, no wonder they always win....." Lonesomebri
"The powerful are exploiting people, art and ideas, and this leads to us plebes debating how to best ration ice.
Man, no wonder they always win....." Lonesomebri
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Re: One item for BMan 2014 a day
A budget.
I did a very careful analysis of my bank records from the last burn. This gives me a clear picture of how much money I spent last burn and on what, and shows me where my unnecessary excesses lie. Using this info, I was able to come up with a more deliberate budget for this year, which in turn tells me how much I need to save to make this thing happen without screwing myself over.
I did a very careful analysis of my bank records from the last burn. This gives me a clear picture of how much money I spent last burn and on what, and shows me where my unnecessary excesses lie. Using this info, I was able to come up with a more deliberate budget for this year, which in turn tells me how much I need to save to make this thing happen without screwing myself over.
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Schtev wrote:A budget.
I did a very careful analysis of my bank records from the last burn. This gives me a clear picture of how much money I spent last burn and on what, and shows me where my unnecessary excesses lie. Using this info, I was able to come up with a more deliberate budget for this year, which in turn tells me how much I need to save to make this thing happen without screwing myself over.
Amen to that.. Looking back.. I was out of control for 2013
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Dug out the pith helmet from the bag of hats.. It is a British officers desert hat.. Same shape as a bobbies hat.. Go's with Caravansary. Now to put a sedan/camel chair on the trike..
Could build a sedan chair over a power chair..OH! Ftgjam
Could build a sedan chair over a power chair..OH! Ftgjam
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Holy fucking shit! That's what I use and I grumbled at $15 for five pounds (still, it's cheaper than REI) when I bought a can three years ago. $50 is highway robbery.theCryptofishist wrote:Stocked up on electrolytes...
Making note to stop by the tackstore to see what their prices are this year.
(On clicking on the link again) Aha! 30 pounds. Never mind.