Diane took me to the airport this mornign for my 6:15 flight to Chicago.. It was a beautiful morning
FLight out to Reno took 3 hops.. but was uneventful.. which is nice in this day of major airline messups.
I got to Reno about 4, took a quick nap.. then met four of my build week friends.. Duane, Squatch. Marie, Aaron and Rebar fora a quick shopping trip at whole food.s It’s a mini version of the gargantuan shopping trips the rest of the camp will make before they show up on Sunday. (heres’ what those are like)
We ended up closing whole foods down.. we opted to buy whatever we could and eat it there.. no pre burn feasts like trest of the camp will do
I had bad grocery sgtore suishi.. We all split a pint of Ben and Jerry’s Phish Food just for luck (and calories)
TOmorrow I head out to Nevada for Burning man build week.. I’m part of the 6 person Fluffy build team.. Its the first time I thought about what to bring.. We’ll be camping in the open desert before our campmates arrive and set up some civilization. I sent some of my stuff ahead with Fluffy: a sleeping bag, a light weight cot, some tools. All i’m bringing with me tomorrow is a small duffle. That will be filled with electronics including a nw display console for fluffys lights and every tool I can think of to repair her while I’m out. I’ll bring a few changes of clothes.. but I dont need to bring much. I’ll be working most of the time I’m there.. so no need for playa bling.. I’ll bring some just in case..
for the first time.. I’m actually excited about going … I want to see this thing work after all the effort diane and I have put into it.
As I was cleaning up yesterday I rearranged the computer room.. that meant unplugging and tidying a zillion cables and plugs..
Somehow in there I managed to do something that took down our internet.. I spent several hours trying to debug it myself and with the help of our service providers support folks.. no dice
It was soooo strange being wihtout internet.. no google, no alexa.. .. No voice vontrol of the 40 or so devices we control including lights, doors, even a toy train. No email , no slack !
I felt like I was heading back to the 1980’s !
Kinda nice
anyway The really nice WCVT guy we know came today and In 5 minutes found the root of the problem. He took a simple laser pointer with a cool fixture, shot it down the fiber optic cable that feeds our modem.. and Shazam !.. the litle red dot showed that the tiny peoce of glass fiber had been broken
Today, as part of our massive clean up / fixup of our house we tackled our bedroom. That meant goign through the pile of posters and artifacts we’re stored under our bed. Most of them are about Sam. I always have to prepare for that.. I love looking at his stuff.. but I have to get myself in the right frame of mind
Under there I found a bunch of posters that Sam’s friends and classmates made after he died .. Also found a bunch of other tributes people made I remember what it was like getting these tributes.. I remember feeling for all those people trying to express their feelings.. and appreciating the effort. It didn’t make me less sad.. just that Sam was loved by many folks..Thats’s something
I also found other stuff.. things that sam had made, pictures of Sam..
I gathered the stuff carefully.. kept the stuff that matttered most to me.. and carefully dealt with the rest.
It was exhausting , sad and satisfying all at the same time
