{"id":2688,"date":"2011-04-01T22:32:29","date_gmt":"2011-04-02T05:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=2688"},"modified":"2011-04-01T22:32:29","modified_gmt":"2011-04-02T05:32:29","slug":"notes-from-underground-april-fools-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2011\/04\/01\/notes-from-underground-april-fools-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from Underground: April Fool’s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"April<\/a>It’s been a hectic few weeks.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 It started with cleaning out our SF apartment, creating more space in the apartment — and attacking the storeroom from Hades in the garage.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 We had put some stuff in there in 1991 when we moved into the apartment and then more in 1999 and then our Burning Man stuff in 2006 … and it turns out there were a dozen boxes or so from a former three-doors-down neighbor who had moved away years ago and asked to leave them there temporarily.\u00c2\u00a0 Several trips to various recycling centers and the Community Thrift Store later, it was virtually empty so we could start to refill it with our other <\/em>Burning Man stuff to create space in the apartment, and it went from there … with plenty of carrying stuff up and down stairs.<\/p>\n

In the middle of it I testified at City Hall in a meeting sparked by the Save the Rave; am working BORDC, EFF, Demand Progress, and so many othersto get the word out at #privchat on Twitter and Facbook for PATRIOT Act activism.\u00c2\u00a0 Yay for grassroots social network activism!<\/p>\n

And also: helped D submit her novel (!) to a publisher.\u00c2\u00a0 Strategized with my brother Greg on his Kickstarter campaign “Spread the Word!”.\u00c2\u00a0 Drove a friend to work for her first day on her new job and hung out with her in SF for the first time. \u00c2\u00a0 Went barrel tasting — and discovered a bunch of wine from the 1990s we had left in our neighbor’s cellar, most of which is remarkably drinkable.\u00c2\u00a0 Went to a fashion show and a fabulous dinner party.\u00c2\u00a0 Had dinner and drinks with friends and enjoyed Brubars.\u00c2\u00a0 Bought tickets to take the train across the country (I’m minimizing flying because of the f—ing TSA).\u00c2\u00a0 Started work on a bilingual (although not yet beautiful) q<\/span>w<\/span>e<\/span>r<\/span>i<\/span>e<\/span>s<\/span> prototype,\u00c2\u00a0 Danced till four a.m. two nights in a row.<\/p>\n

Life is good.<\/p>\n

And no wonder I’m tired.<\/p>\n

How am I doing?<\/h3>\n

Tonight’s geomagnetic.tv party is at Kelly’s Mission Rock, and the highlight will be a tag-team set with Dr. Spook, Sausee, and Michael Liu.\u00c2\u00a0 A quarter of the way into the year, it’s a good time to check in on my new year’s resolutions … pretty good on the whole although I need to concentrate a lot more on the first one: “get more sleep, work out, meditate regularly, and do the other things i know i should be doing to reduce stress.”\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Ooops.\u00c2\u00a0 Other than that though great progress on most fronts, and by this point my 2010 resolutions ( choose desire over fear … trust my intuition … try not to analyze things too much … fall through the limitations of intelligence into pure and simple creativity … bring inner ecstasy back into my consciousness …) are becoming habits.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s good.<\/p>\n

With the tech bubble booming and all the hype around Quora it’s tempting to move q<\/span>w<\/span>e<\/span>r<\/span>i<\/span>e<\/span>s <\/span>ahead as quickly as possible.\u00c2\u00a0 But on the other hand if I did it wouldn’t be sustainable with everything else going in our lives — and we’re reluctant to give any of it up.\u00c2\u00a0 So instead it’ll be a more leisurely pace, and that’s fine too.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s been chaotic around the house so I haven’t gotten anything done.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh well.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s been beautiful these last few days in San Francisco, sunny and in the 70s … life is good.<\/p>\n

So with luck, tonight I’ll have that “I’ve earned it” feel.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course I’ll be thinking about Save the Rave and q<\/span>w<\/span>e<\/span>r<\/span>i<\/span>e<\/span>s <\/span>but hopefully I’ll also turn my mind off, relax, and enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been a hectic few weeks.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 It started with cleaning out our SF apartment, creating more space in the apartment — and attacking the storeroom from Hades in the garage.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 We had put some stuff in there in 1991 when we moved into the apartment and then more in 1999 and then our Burning Man […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[283],"class_list":["post-2688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-psytrance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}