4.21.2014

Year 2013 in review

January - Work begins on the former "Vote No Campaign" now the "Vote Yes" for 
Constitution amendment allowing anyone to marry who they want...
             
February -  1st - Contract with Best Buy ended as funding ran out.
 3rd helped with drill holes for new bathrooms at the Soap Factory.
  20th - Big rally at the Capital...Continued work on Vote Yes.
             
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Smashed concrete walls in the Soap Factory basement and hauled out  50 Wheel barrows of debris.

March - Continued work on Vote Yes.

April - Continued work on Vote Yes.
            20th Landed short term contract at BI World Wide.

May - 5th Worked the Mayday parade as one of the Big puppets, helped build and paint many of them.
           On May 9, 2013, the House of Representatives passed a bill to legalize same-sex 
            marriage on a vote of 75 to 59. Victory.

June - 16th  Worked Northern Spark as a crew leader at the Bedlam Location in St. Paul.
           25th Saw the YYY's at First ave.

July - 11th Went to See Bob Dylan with Mary at the Old St. Paul Saints stadium at Midway.
          20th got my Peace corps invite to go to the island nation of Vanuatu.
           22nd worked Paper darts event at Soo Vac.
          July 31st Did the Mississippi river challenge and stay at Fort Snelling
                        and the temperature dipped to 35 degree on. It could have almost snowed.

August - 17th got 5 stitches in arm from injury during construction at Soap Factory.
               23rd, went to see Dessa play. She is so rad.
               25th Haunted Basement Soap Factory work kicked into full swing.
               27th Left BI World Wide contract. Silliest company I ever worked for.

September - Started art install of 8 new works of mine at Dunn Brothers near Loring Park Minneapolis

October - Haunted basement 100 hours of work (80 building, 20 acting)

November - First art show I had work publicly shown Soap Factory biennial.
                     Joined flash mod performance at Mall of America with Bedlam troop: 
                     
                     Emptied apartment to ready for reanter, painted all walls and 
                   moved out and lived with Mary for a month.

December - Completed art show at Jungle Red sold one painting.
                      Was lucky enough to hangout with The Laurie Walker. She's so cool.
                      Packed bags and readied for leaving the country.
                      Logged 501 + volunteer hours at the soap factory new personal record and I think the most
                      any volunteer ever has done in a single year.