i was too tired to write down every single thing i did while it was still buzzing through my head, and now it seems less urgent so i won't splash all of that all over your friends pages. :) the short version is i felt fat and lazy and out of shape and out of practice, and i didn't wind up spinning anything or doing much with fire! but had a lot ( Read more... )

safely in connecticut. for values of "safe" that don't exclude planning to spend a weekend in the woods literally playing with fire ( Read more... )

( that was fun. (looooong) )

car camping makes me feel so lazy.

every now and then moominmolly and i will go on a trip that's like "let's stuff some silk pants and shirts and windbreakers into a fanny pack, grab a water bottle, and skate over the state line!" or "let's go to belize with bags packed for bicycling across scotland! we'll buy bathing suits at a gift shop and wear them all ( Read more... )

overhearing a guy explaining to someone else what balancing ladders (he called them "roman ladders") were, and how he was planning to build one with wick on the bottom rung so he could light it on fire.

a woman in the whip class with a red, black, and yellow whip which i think (i just got a brief look) was plaited in coral snake band order.

after a bit of waffling about the rain, moominmolly and i stilted again on saturday, again with klingonlandlady (and this time with fraterrisus doing the carnival-barker thing). it didn't rain all that hard, in the end, and umbrellas held by people on stilts turn out to look pretty cool ( Read more... )

moominmolly is teaching the intro stilting class at fall wildfire, so we need to make some more stilts. we'll be doing this at our place starting at 1pm tomorrow (sunday) and also next sunday. folks who want to try stilts or help out or keep us company or use our tools and/or design to make their own are welcome to come over. :)

last time i'd planned to talk up wildfire before tickets went on sale next, and then i completely spaced on doing it in the whirlwind of burning man preparation: i know that things will occur after next week because i have them written on my calendar, but they don't really seem real right now ( Read more... )

and they've done a remarkable job automating a lot of the organizing and information-disseminating parts through the website. which has the side-effect of keeping me thinking about it. :) ("shoot, i still need to transfer my second ticket to moominmolly... oh, and sign up for work shifts... hey, the class schedule is finalized, i should look at that! ... hm ( Read more... )