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Is This Thing On?

NetDiva — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:58:24 GMT

This is the first time I've logged into Tribe since March. Are people still active here? I remember when I was on tribe a jillion times a day, every day. Twitter me @NetDiva or facebook me. Love, Diva

BaconCamp on Sat!

NetDiva — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:51:01 GMT

How do you plan to spend your Saturday? * Recover from a hangover * Catch up on chores * Hitting refresh on your twitter page * None of the above * Go to Bacon Camp! If you answered anything but E, I’m seriously disappointed with you! http://digestthis.wordpress.com/2009/03/16/bacon-camp/ BaconCamp SF09 Who? You! and me and everyone else we know What? The Bacon Event of the Decade When? Sat Mar 21, 1-4pm Where? 500 3rd St, Ste 510, San Francisco What Else? In the spirit of barcamp, we are organizing the first bay area BaconCamp. Born from the desire to share in all things bacon, we bring you this community-driven baco-celebraion, and encourage your participation! Over 25 baco-tastic dishes are scheduled to be presented. Check out what’s planned: http://baconcamp.pbwiki.com/Bringing-a-Dish. Do you have a bacony bit of culinary accomplishment which you think the public must taste? BaconCamp is still accepting entries and the prize is one of these coveted trophies which, if won, ensure you undisputed baco-bragging rights. Just go to the wiki and enter your dish! BaconCamp is free, but participants are encouraged to purchase tickets http://baconcampsf.eventbrite.com/ to raise funds for the American Heart Association. Don’t cook, but love bacon? Techniques, poems, interpretive dance and any other baco-inspired expression is welcome! There will be Bacon Slam Poetry featuring your best baco-tweets, “One Hour in Bacon” and even Bacon Math Art. Participate! Volunteers are needed to help run the event from 11am - 5pm. Sign up at http://baconcamp.org/SFBayArea_notes_03_21 with your name, email and available timeframe. This is the event that even vegetarians can’t afford to miss! Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that I’m a judge! With Love and Pork Fat! Diva (Amy) Bacon Fetishist and Mother of Bacon Man P.S. Feel free to re-post, cross-post and circulate as you will!

Help Hollis Get Home

NetDiva — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 06:52:28 GMT

If you know Hollis Hawthorne and are reading this now for the first time, I am so sorry. My friend Hollis was in a motorcycle accident in India this past week. She has suffered extreme brain stem injury and is in a coma. Stanford Medical Center has accepted her but the problem now is getting her home. Costs for med-vac-ing her home are about $150K. Her friends, family and burners are doing all that we can. Details can be found at http://www.friendsofhollis.blogspot.com/ and http://helpholligethome.blogspot.com/ --Even if you only have an extra $10, please consider helping out. If you have a lot more, then, that would be wonderful. If you know a pilot with a plane that can handle this, please contact a family member, immediately. You can find contact info on either of those blogs. (Pictured above, Hollis and I on the back of the Lunch's "art sleigh," Christmas 2006. Hollis is on the left. This is a great memory for me but not so wonderful as Hollis "floating" across the playa doing cartwheels for me at dawn, JuPlaya '06.)

Playanxiety

NetDiva — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:10:56 GMT

playanxiety - n - anxiety or stress leading up to arrival on playa. can include packing, art projects, car repairs and projects. usage: This year, I plan to reduce playanxiety by packing light and not working on projects.

Physical Therapy & Stuff

NetDiva — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:15:57 GMT

Well, I started physical therapy today. They said that "I have my work cut out for me." Ugh. I wore heels to work today anyway. In other news, lunch with Ronnie & Baby James was fantastic. He's such an adorable giggly little thing.

FREE sign making or burning man materials....

NetDiva — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:15:23 GMT

I have a stack of large banners that have printing on one side and are blank on the other, which used to be graphics for a 100"x100" trade show booth. They're heavy-duty flexible plastic, almost like vinyl, some are matt board, some are more like fiberglass; all are flexible and durable--varying sizes. A couple have slightly worn edges but most pieces are almost new. They seem like they'd be great materials for making signs or for a burning man camp as the material is durable and easy to paint over. They're in SOMA and you'll need to come get'm. Email netdiva@gmail.com if you want them.

FREEDOM!

NetDiva — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:23:41 GMT

The doctor officially freed me of my knee brace this morning and I have an (almost) normal looking knee. I can't walk normally yet and man it feels strange. But hurray! My goals are to be driving again by mid-weekend and to be able to wear low (<3") heels by Monday. However, I'm not going to push it so if I don't feel ready, I'll just have to procrastinate those achievements. Hip Hip Hurray for my realigned patella!

BEST MUSIC VIDEO EVAR

NetDiva — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:00:18 GMT

Barbarian Gorbachov Slays Zombie Stalins to Save Busty Hard Working Russian Babes - in the end it rains Coke & Twinkies! http://www.iheartchaos.com/2008/07/10/morning-music-video-gorbachev-is-a-zombie-killing-barbarian-in-this-russian-metal-video-i-heart-music/

Laid Up

NetDiva — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:41:40 GMT

I'm really going stir crazy. The good news is that my knee seems to have made huge progress since the weekend. The bruising is almost gone and the swelling is WAY down. Last week, it looked like a basketball. This weekend, like a large grape fruit. Today, it's more like a softball. So yeah, I guess we're making progress. I see the doctor in the morning at 8:15. I hope to actually make it into the office afterwards. Steve rented a wheelchair so that we could go to museums over the weekend. We didn't make it due to Juicy's 3-day-long birthday party. However, we are going to use it tomorrow to go to Fire Arts! So watch out burners! That's where you'll find ME!

Screencap of the Creepy Comment of the Day

NetDiva — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:41:05 GMT

Tribe manages to stay up for a full day and the creeps come right out of the woodwork.

I survived!

NetDiva — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:53:55 GMT

Well, I've survived knee surgery - the first surgery I've ever had. I'm sore as hell and a little grumpy, but I have a bottle of percosat and this super cool cyber icerator machine that circulates ice water continually over my knee to keep swelling down. I don't expect to be on my feet in the next couple of days but I'm slowly progressing. Steve is taking amazing care of me! I'm such a lucky girl!

Beautiful Weekend!

NetDiva — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:26:42 GMT

What a lovely weekend! We went up to Sonoma for Nasti Andi's wedding with steve23 & Juicy. We stayed in the Hacienda where Dan Das Mann & Karen got married. We lounged in the sun, made brunch in the outdoor kitchen by the pool, tasted wine, and had a beautiful, relaxing weekend. My photos are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/netdiva/sets/72157605889574756/ Knee surgery happens first thing in the morning. I'm going to log off and get some sleep. xo xo xo

Dropping my tribe.net subscription

NetDiva — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:19:35 GMT

The email I sent this morning pretty much says it all. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Amy Abascal Date: Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 10:35 AM Subject: Canceling my subscription To: billing@tribe.net, mark@tribe.net I wish to cancel my subscriptions to tribe.net. I am currently paying for two subscriptions. I no longer wish to pay tribe.net for service which is rarely, if ever, available. As a tribe.net user since, 2003, I also wish to express my deep regret over the degradation of tribe over the past year. It's gone from bad to worse. I championed the subscription concept in hopes that you could afford either the hardware or the staff to solve your downtime problems. Neither happened and frankly I'm left wondering what that money was spent on. There was a time when tribe was a thriving tool that supported the community. I understand that times change and so do businesses. tribe is sorely missed. Regards, Amy Abascal "Diva"

Natural Consequences

NetDiva — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 06:08:13 GMT

The boys were watching the Military Channel so it sounded like a perfect time to do my nails. I sat on the bed with pillows propped up behind me painting my toenails. As I was pulling the top out of the bottle, and before I could wipe the excess polish off the side, Orion grabbed the brush from my hand. He smirked and then smeared a giant glob of polish onto his index finger; far extending his nail and dripping down his finger. "What do I do now?" asked the silly kid. "Well, now that you have wet nail polish, you have to hold perfectly still until it dries. And since you put so much on, it's gonna be a good long while. You comfortable?" I replied, without moving much. "WHAT!?" cried Orion. "Well, I suppose if you don't want to hold still, you can go into the bathroom and wipe some of it on a tissue. But if you get nail polish on anything in my house, there's gonna be big trouble," I answered. Orion ran to the bathroom. I heard a "HI-YaH!" and a thud and then Steve asked him what the h*** he was doing. Apparently, Orion kicked the door open while Steve was peeing. I remained on the bed while I applied another coat. In a minute, Orion came back into the room with a bundle of toilet paper wrapped around is finger like a huge round ball, pointing at me. "What are you doing, kiddo?" "Getting that stuff off," he answered. "Was it wet when you stuck that paper on there?" I asked "Uh-huh," he replied. I groaned and said nothing. Orion began unwinding all the toilet paper off his finger. When he got to the bottom, he found that he had one lovely Cabernet Summer colored finger nail. "OK," he announced. "I want this off now." "How are you going to make that happen?" I asked him. "How do you get it off?" he answered. "It doesn't just come off, Orion. It's on there. That's the thing with nail polish. It stays on, even when you wash it." Now he was mad and furiously wiping his finger on his pajama pants while stomping his feet and making noise. I asked him to come sit down and have a little chat with me. At the end of our discussion, I asked him what he thought the moral to this story was. He answered, "Find out what you're getting on your fingers because it may just stick to you forever."

Back on my Feet!

NetDiva — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:48:37 GMT

Hurray! The doctor wants me to start walking on it. No more knee brace or crutches. I'm still a little wobbly but I'm thrilled to be able to bend my knee! Freedom will be short lived as I'm having arthroscopic surgery on the thirtieth. I'll be laid up again for a week to three weeks depending on how much swelling there is. I plan on keeping it to a week.

Mercury...

NetDiva — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:04:19 GMT

Mercury went into retrograde on the 26th (day after my knee accident) and does not go direct until June 19. I've felt it's effects incredibly strong for this period. Seems like fubar'd technology, miscommunications, and feeling of stagnation abound! I have been mostly working from home because of my knee which has meant I've been on the phone several hours a day. There has not been a single conference call that I haven't been dropped from at least once. Some have been so bad that we've just had to reschedule the whole call. Webex, Go-to-Meeting and other remote desktop sharing apps have been almost useless, although I typically rely on them heavily. Cell phone signals seem to drop for no apparent reason. Skype borks. Even my landline keeps getting all this noise on the line. There have been wild miscommunications between my coworkers causing near war. I have found myself having to explain and re-explain things. People are late because Caltrain has been all screwed up, and even though I don't take Caltrain, it's affected me indirectly. Furthermore, my ability to accomplish anything has been hampered by my bad knee. I've just begun accepting that all plans have to be fluid because I may feel up to it and I may not. I'm getting rather adept at rescheduling. Getting anywhere is a process as, I cannot drive in the brace and Muni is a pain on crutches. I've seen some rather dramatic effects of it on my friends, too, when a loved one dropped off the map for a day or two and nobody could reach her. Everyone got together waiting to hear news. So rough. (And yes she resurfaced.) Even money has been weird: Our finances got screwed up because our broker took the wrong amount of money from the wrong account overdrawing my checking account. I'd love to find an article describing how mercury in retrograde in gemini affects my chart (sun & moon in leo, libra rising, mercury in leo). I'm ready for Mercury to go direct. I'm tired of all this extra effort and feeling like I'm not really moving forward. I guess the lesson here is that I actually am. Mercury only looks like it's going backwards, it's not really. However, while we're in the midst of it, it's difficult to see it that way. Peddler harder! PATIENCE, DIVA, PATIENCE!

Whining

NetDiva — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:37:14 GMT

I had grand plans for today. I was going to catch up on all sorts of things I'm behind on and then have dinner with Lord Huckleberry. My knee was feeling so much better yesterday and I clearly over-did it. I've spent my entire day with it elevated. It's KILLING me. It's more swollen than it's been in a week. *grumble* I see the orthopedist on Wed morning and theory get out of this brace. At least I got a post written for my food blog: http://digestthis.wordpress.com/2008/06/08/microwave-safety/

We've Set a Date for the biggest wedding party EVER....

NetDiva — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:39:20 GMT

Steve & I will be tying the knot on June 27th, 2009. Massive Bri will also be marrying Miss Helen that day. The plan is to have separate ceremonies at the same location -and then the biggest reception EVER. We've also picked the location which we'll announce soon enough. SO EXCITED!

THIS SUCKS

NetDiva — Sat, 31 May 2008 01:11:50 GMT

It's Friday night and I'm here in my PJs with my leg elevated. I think I feel like having a complete and utter pouty fit! WHAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!

Find & Follow....

NetDiva — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:09:14 GMT

It's no secret that Tribe is dying a long slow death. Hemorrhaging is more the word. Here are great ways to keep in touch with eachother: Twitter -- http://twitter.com/NetDiva --Though their recent capacity issues have been a problem and they need to drop Ruby, I think they'll be around a while. Brightkite -- http://brightkite.com/people/NetDiva - Brightkite is like twitter only you can post photos & locations --and set it up to update your twitter stream, too. It's in beta & invitation only but send me your email address and I'll invite you. So follow me!

Just Saw an Orthopedic Knee Specialist and...

NetDiva — Wed, 28 May 2008 16:48:58 GMT

I'm supposed to wear this brace for two weeks. The crutches are optional which is great news because they're a pain in the ass. I can't carry anything with them and they hurt my armpits. Because this is the second time I've dislocated my left kneecap, he wants me to have surgery in a couple of weeks. The doctor says it's just going to keep happening unless we do something about it. It will be arthroscopic, so that's good. He says we'll discuss it in more detail at my follow-up in 2 weeks.

Fire Mountain Redux

NetDiva — Tue, 27 May 2008 18:59:48 GMT

One of the very best weekends ever! I seriously had so much fun that I'm still glowing. What a wonderful event Fire Mountain has become. We've been lucky enough to attend both years. I'm so glad that Massive Bri, Helen, Andllama, Andrea, Cubes, Cat, June, Che, Leslie & Jeremy also made it out this time. We did have one hiccup which was that I seriously screwed my knee up. I'm in a brace and on crutches now. I had it checked out at the E.R. last night and I see an orthopedist in the morning. They think I have ligament damage but if I'm lucky, it's just a bad sprain. Oh well, the trip was still absolutely wonderful. By the way, I lost my camera. If anyone found a silver sony digital camera, let me know!

Off to Fire Mountain

NetDiva — Sat, 24 May 2008 04:40:52 GMT

Trucks packed and we're about to roll. Back Monday!

Wanna Snuggle Some Cute Kitties & House Sit This Weekend?

NetDiva — Tue, 20 May 2008 18:56:30 GMT

We're going to be gone for three nights which is just a little too long to leave the kitties alone. If you're interested in escaping your pad for a nice "vacation" at mine, then we should talk. We'll be gone Fri night, Sat, and Sunday, returning Monday. Our house is near City College just two blocks from the M line and a mile from Balboa Park BART. It's a comfy little two bedroom with a yard, wifi, cable, big kitchen and working fireplace. It also comes complete with two super snuggly furballs, Chupi & Pixel.

Happy Birthday Sekani!

NetDiva — Fri, 16 May 2008 21:34:21 GMT

I think it's tomorrow but we'll all be out of town. Anyway, you rock! And I love you maaaan!