rampant pantslessness (and other hobbies)rampant pantslessness (and other hobbies) - LiveJournal.compelblog fireworks; changeover- July 6, 2008 last night was a great night for sitting outside and watching the sky. first – and have i told you about how amazing the sunsets are out here – last night was a fantastic night for watching the sun set. All Star 1 (the conference right before mine) was having their farewell parties and largely missed it, but a handful of us Pelicans went up the small hill on the west end of the island and watched the sun set. lots of orange clouds and blue-green sky and very, very pretty.later...http://fraterrisus.livejournal.com/402868.html pelblog pointers- July 1, 2008 looks like my backdating from last night didn't completely work, so here are pointers to the last handful of posts:june 12june 25june 29http://fraterrisus.livejournal.com/402566.html pelblog meta- July 1, 2008 so, the first couple of weeks of the season have been absolute hell in a bunch of ways. not the least of which is that the promised wireless internet connection did not, in fact, go live until a couple of days ago. since i'm spending the evening "on call" but only working sporadically, i'm going back and posting my old blog posts that have been languishing on my hard drive.obviously i skipped a couple of weeks in there. instead of going back and filling in the gaps, i'll take the opportunity.http://fraterrisus.livejournal.com/402226.html pelblog fire drill, again- July 1, 2008 Entry backdated.so, we do one fire drill a week, and each one is somewhat different. our fire marshall tries to throw some curveballs at us. the one from last week was in the basement of a building that's really hard to get into, where inevitably (in these drills, anyway) people go to smoke weed, fall asleep, and start a fire.i recently discovered that the fire drills are being scheduled such that everybody on my crew gets a chance to run the pre-alarm that starts the drill. which means, if..http://fraterrisus.livejournal.com/402022.html pelblog fire drill!- July 1, 2008 Entry backdated.Today, I got caught with my pants down – literally. I was in my room, getting ready for work at 4pm, when the porch bell started ringing. The porch bell rings for every conference event, but it rings once. The key difference here is that when it rings continuously, that's our secondary fire alarm (in case the sirens don't work or can't be set off or something like that). So, there I am wearing nothing but a pair of underwear when the fire alarm goes off.Sounds like a...http://fraterrisus.livejournal.com/401670.html pelblog prep week; losing my cool- July 1, 2008 Entry backdated.it's been a crazy couple of days. what is this, thursday right. so here are some quick hits from this week. i'll expand on some of them later...monday: the landing craft brings two empty dumpsters and a "new" island pickup truck, and takes home two full dumpsters and a rented crane.i was reminded of a Star Island truism: "Star doesn't run on diesel... it runs on dirt." oh, the gossip.monday night: party in the art barn, the most remote building on the island. setup took...http://fraterrisus.livejournal.com/401545.html |