in honor of my return to actually posting things, i thought i'd do a task that has a special place in my heart, and in my procrastination hall of fame.

nothing terribly exciting about my completion, but here's the thing: i had this idea for this task the day i joined sf0.

i know some of you youngsters weren't even born yet, but let me tell you, it was a while ago. in order to post tasks we had to walk uphill both ways through the snow. barefoot. with dial-up.

i was initially all gung-ho and went out on several forays in vain attempts to find the ever ellusive tiny red pom-pom. couldn't find the little buggers anywhere. nor clown noses. aparantly they were out of season. gradually got distracted by other tasks, but always in the back of my head there was a little clown voice saying "hey! when you gonna post that Artistic License task? you slacker." many months later i was in a random store and in the impulse-buy racks by the register: clown noses! hooray! i bought one and promptly forgot about the task again. many moons later, just before burning man, in a sketchy little dollar store shopping for crap to bring to the playa, behold! little red pom-poms. and there was much rejoicing. now i can finally put that clown to rest. except i have to look at him every day on my license. thats prolly waaay more than anyone wanted to know about my task-doing-process, but hey i just want everyone to know that all those stupid ideas you've got floating around in your head for various tasks will someday find a way to come true. all you need is to find your tiny red pom-pom.


** the fun thing about this, is that i carry the clown nose around with me, and when i get carded for things (beer, at the airport, etc), i hand them the license, and while they are looking at it like "wtf" i pop on the clown nose, so when they look back at me i match the license. never fails to get a smile, even from burned out grumpy airport personel. can't take the credit for the idear though. blame Penn and Teller.**