I've really enjoyed my stay so far at Pisco sin Fronteras, and the first day at work felt really good. I'll post about that when I manage to get photos uploaded (small town + developing country = slow, dodgy connections), but let's just say that it totally makes sense why people stay here much longer than they intended to, and so many come back.

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[Timestamp in AEDT]

I spent New Year at the Woodford Folk Festival. I honestly had never heard of it until Penelope Swales ( Read more... )

This is normally an annual post, but last year I went to Africa instead. But returning to tradition: Who's going to Burning Man? Comment here and let me know how to find you; it'd be fun to get together!

I'm camping with Sacred Spaces/Evolutionary Temple this year, which grew out of the TAG crowd I camped with in '07 (fabulous people like veleda, laughingstone, traumentwerfer, whimsywanderer, tristissima ( Read more... )

Right now I'm doing the reverse of the trip into Seattle. One of the first things I saw on my way in last Monday was the world-famous Tacoma Narrows Bridge. Haven't heard of it? I'll bet you have-maybe this video will jog your memory. ( Photo of the new one... )

There really isn't anything at Boston Market that appeals to me, but it's a comfortable place where I can chill with my laptop by a window while flamingnerd's car gets serviced down the road.

We went to Burning Toast Man over the weekend, which is a regional ( Read more... )

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The last couple of days have been emotionally exhausting. I'm sitting in the corner of a hanger at the NASA AMES Research Centre in Mountain View typing this, because I just had so much on my mind to dump into a private entry that it became urgent. Now that that's out of the way, it's time to have fun. This is a good place to do it... especially ( Read more... )

If you're interested in camping with me at
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If you are, do you know where you're camping yet, and with whom? If so, where, and what's the address, and is there room for more people?

I'm working (sort of) on my own
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This was worse than that Saturday the 31st when U-Haul didn't have the truck I reserved six weeks before. This was worse than the time I had to clear a garage full of personal belongings through the rain. It was even worse than any of the overseas moves I've done. And it wasn't even my move!


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