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After much time spent taking new pictures (with the new Casio Exilim Z-55), I have put up a series of photos from the last eight months. Check them all out, as they include many familiar and new faces, but here are some details, since the albums already cover two pages:

• February 18th, 2005 – Mad Arf exhibit at Mad Art gallery – Friends, art and dogs at an art deco former-police-station art gallery and Lohr’s return to STL.
• February 20th-21st, 2005 – Dennis visits St. Louis – Dennis comes to visit and we have fun at the SLSC, getting Boba and making “twins” of ourselves.
• March 9th, 2005 – Poi-making workshop for an afterschool group in Florissant – Nita’s connections lead Pandora’s Matchbox to do a poi-making and spinning workshop on a cold day in March. The kids had a lot of fun, WE had a lot of fun, and we all created a lot of streamer poi.
• Spring and Summer fire performance and gatherings
  • Firespinning at Artica – Some excellent shots of Brendan, Sam, Pickle, Lohr and Jim spinning crazy shapes down at Artica in April.
  • 3rd Friday @ 3rd Degree – 3rd Degree put up a large outdoor sculpture consisting of glass bubbles placed at different heights on rebar across an entire field. Playing in it was half the fun, taking the pictures was the other half.
  • Zoofari 2005 – Pandora’s performs at the zoo for a charity event all in black, and feasting on great food, drink, and music in between performing.
  • September 9-10th, 2005 – Schlafly Art Outside – Quickly becoming a well-liked gig, Pandora’s performed with some great drummers at Schlafly’s Bottleworks. Some neat pictures of Amanda, Carolyn, Pickle, Sam, Jim, and Barb.
• Miscellaneous Gatherings of Friends – A hodge-podge gallery with pictures of Webster U friends, Berg’s last Hurrah at the Eat Rite diner (fun, but I can’t bring myself to say yum), drinking at the Cabin, Sam’s fun Black-Out-Birthday party, and a couple shots from this year’s Moonlit Ramble with our friends Jon and Jenny.
• April 22nd, 2005 – Laura T.’s and My Birthday Party! – Laura and I share a birthday, and we celebrated together with a big party at her new place. Together with a lot of vodka, matching birthday cups (hers was blue, mine was red!), friends, and more cheesecake than we could consider eating, we had a fabulous birthday.
• May 1st, 2005 – STL Biodiesel Club at Forest Park Earth Day celebration – The St. Louis Biodiesel Club attends Earth Day 2005, bringing demonstrations, vehicles, and soap for sale.
• May 14th-15th, 2005 – Interfuse 2005 – Interfuse, the Midwest Burner regional burn held at beautiful Ozark Avalon in mid-Missouri was made more fun this year by having each group traveling to the event bring an “appendage” or more to add to the “Frankenmann” to be burned on Saturday night. Despite the bizarre appendages the STL crew chose to bring, we were welcomed with open arms, and had a great time all weekend.
• July 4th-7th, 2005 – Dustin’s visit to STL – One Sunday night in July, our friend Dustin buzzed our buzzer, having driven all the way from Boston, on his way to Colorado. It was a surprise visit, but luckily there was much going on, and we got to show him our garden, the SLSC, take him to a big 4th of July gathering outside of St. Louis, and play with fire eating and tall bikes before he went on his way to Fort Collins.

• July 30th, 2005 – Artica Vessel Awards held at Urbis Orbis Gallery – Artica is celebrated again, by recognizing the special contributions of many people to it in a ceremony marked with vessels given as awards. Pandora’s also performed, making it a great way to reconnect with Artica and Pandora’s friends alike.

  I haven’t even put up the pictures from Burning Man from this year, or our trip to see Mike and Marcia get married in Colorado. Those will come soon, but I wanted to make sure everyone got a chance to check out the great pictures from the last few months. You can post comments, download pictures, send them to a service that will print them on photo paper and mail them to you for a fee, or post a comment here if you want higher resolution copies of anything. (There’s only so much space for pictures here). Feel free to share the links if you think of people who don’t usually check this website but would be interested.

Today was ‘tend to the whiney babies’ day. No, not actual babies, but big, hot, greasy babies that run really fast. Yes, cars and scooters! They demand care, and will act up if they don’t get it. Today my scooter was saying, “Waaah! Waaah! My coolant and brake fluid need to be flushed! Waah! I’m in danger of corroding my caliper seals! Waah!” Sympathetically, the Mercedes was saying, “Waaah! My rack tension is loose! Waah! I’m going to violently shake side to side because there isn’t sufficient tension dampening the injection system causing a stronger fire on a fore cylinder! Waah!” This all came just a few days after Madalene’s new Civic said, “Please give me new spark plugs and wires, and I’m gonna need my nappie (er, CV boot) changed soon! Oh, and my rear brakes are leaky!”

Damn them! The Mercedes was an easy fix, but the scooter required that I purchase some additional tools. One of my new tools was not functioning well (a vacuum pump), and I ended up spending several hours trying to get the cursed air out of the brake system. Fortunately, I eventually found success. As it was getting dark, I managed to finish up the coolant flush, which wasn’t nearly as difficult (though I did have to dremel a non-removable hose clamp off a hose).

I’m now greasy and tired, and still have more to do tommorow. Its ok, babies, daddy is here for you…