Burn Plans take slight delay

Category: Burn

My campmate and co-conspirator Bernie was to come up this weekend to help prep the RV. However, everything was kind of thrown together at the last minute, so we've agreed to delay the initial prep for 2 more weeks. This is fine at this point in the game, especially considering that it's still early. Plus, that gives me another couple of weeks to get some other things together at home (namely, finishing the clutter removal from the garage). I've cleaned out the portable building and gotten rid of about half a dozen boxes of old stuff that I needed to toss anyway, so the timing should work pretty well. I'm unconcerned, as I said, because it's still January. Now, if march should roll around and we still haven't tested the RV, um... panic would not be too strong a word.

Here's our timeline:
The Man burns in 239 days. This is 33 weeks away, or 16 biweekly meetings. If we get started in two weeks, that puts us right at the 30-week countdown, with 15 work weekends to get our act together. Again, that's enough time to do what we want to do, as long as we stay focused.

The first part is getting everything tested and fixed on the RV. The last thing we'll be testing is the plumbing; I don't feel comfortable testing it now because of the ever-present possibility of freezing temperatures.

So, for the next two weeks, it's all cleaning and sorting. Which is what we need at this stage anyway. I guess you could say we're preparing to prepare. Sounds sort of like an excuse, but that's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

More coming soon, stay tuned.

Until next time... Ad Meliora!

A (somewhat) flying start to 2009

Category: General

Well, here we go again.

That seems to be my default comment when this time of year rolls around. It's not a sarcastic thing, just a recognition that there are things in the past that I did that really didn't work out the way I wanted them to. Kind of like the last time I went to Burning Man (see previous posts for more info; I'll likely need to give a detailed account at some point, just not now).

So, here's the deal. I've now installed ScribeFire on all PCs I use, touch, or look at funny on a regular basis. I'm trying to remove excuses for not updating my online presence, which has been flagging badly in recent years. My plan is to keep some kind of record of where I'm at and what I'm doing, so maybe someday down the road I can look back and laugh at what an idiot I was, or conversely, how right I turned out to be. It could go either way.

I've decided to try to break the posts into categories for easy reference:

Burn: Burning Man-related info. Tales from the road, playa dust, that sort of thing.
Tech: My adventures with various gizmos and the ins and outs of SharePoint 3.0. (Expect a lot here.)
Film: My on-again, off-again attempt to make a feature.
General: Um, general stuff. You know, like this post.

I know myself well enough to NOT make any promises this time around on keeping the blog up. But I guess we'll take it as it comes and see what happens. Regardless, you're not paying for this, so you can't have your money back.

So until next time... ad meliora!