My room is strewn with raver clothes and the floor is covered with half-empty bins. It’s a sea of red, black, blue, white, and silver, shiny, stretchy, furry, and blinky as far as the eye can see. Goggles, backpacks, gloves, hats, suspenders, batteries, bottles, bags, and little knobby things are spilling out of every corner.

I have a large REI bag completely full of parts for the waterpack workshop tonight. We’ll start at 7; a few people have had to drop out due to the storm of Burning Man preparation fever breaking out all over the city, but it will still be the largest workshop I’ve done so far. The waterpack project is about twice as complicated as the laserfingers project, but all of the steps can be assembly-lined and there is not as much sewing to do, so I think it will come out OK.

I’m going to nip down to the Rocket Factory early and whip up some new LED patches for my furry leggings. I have a new, simpler, faster fabrication method in mind, based on hot glue and zig-zag stitches – if it works I should be able to get all four pairs done in just over an hour. If not, well, even just one pair of working light packs will be enough to get me through Burning Man…