Well, the umbrella frame I was about to deconstruct for the fire parasol just got me back, and but good, for wanting to take it apart--up at the top of the mechanism that keeps it open when its open are a few parts that are not at all easily replaceable and are made of freaking PLASTIC. Um...that ain't gonna work. I do not want the parts that are keeping the thing open and not falling down on my head to be made of cheap, way-meltable plastic.

Fucking umbrella frame...

Well, to be honest, part of me did not want to take this particular umbrella apart anyway, as it was used in our wedding.

So, back to square one: find usable frame...blast it. Maybe I'll just use this heap of wick to make a fire hoop and say screw the fucking parasol. Nah, I want one way too much for that.
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Mutaytor is returning to Burning Man and will ROCK THE PLAYA! *cries*
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Over in the Burning Man tribe, there is a discussion going on about how to find one's way home with 45.5 miles of roads to get lost on this year. Now, I have never had trouble finding my way home (well, there was that one night in '04, but that another story...) One guy mentioned someone in his camp giving out laminated cards with simple maps on them that people could wear to help them find their way home.

That so reminds me of the day kids start school and they leave home with a note pinned on them with their name and age and class/teacher's name written on it. So cute!

Makes me wanna design some little laminated cards up that look like those mom-notes, but with the pertinent camp info...I also wanna break into everyone's tents, then, and write their name in Sharpie on the tags of all their clothes, like kids going off to summer camp for the first time! These would all be great things to do for the theme I wanna do "next year" called Camp Whattahoochie, modeled after summer caps of yore, complete with "craft time", camp intramurals, etc. I want my Counselor name to be "Whattahoochie Mama".