at some point i think i might have posted a picture of the dome,
i did. it was here, 15 years ago, and it no longer has the pictures, because i quit flickr. 😒
but my guess is that it got wiped out when i quit flickr, and/or then my flickr archive got wiped out in the cloud-drive crack… so this is the re-posting:

this is the origin of my obsession with domes. i lived in this dome in 1991, according to the title of the graphic, which i just found in some obscure place that i haven’t seen since before my old cloud drive was vandalised, a few years ago, and according to the re-constructed list of when things happened, which i didn’t even have to update when i found the graphic… which, i think, is a good sign that i have at least partially recovered from that vandalism.
the dome was larger on the inside than it was on the outside. on the outside, it looked like a single-floor structure, but on the inside it had three floors. the bottom floor was where ezra lived, and the upper floor was where my bed was, right next to the upper window. the middle level was my living space, and ezra’s ceiling.
when i first moved in, there was one floor, and a bed/shelf along one wall, but the owner said i could build whatever i wanted inside, so i went crazy, and divided up the space in a way that the owner hadn’t even thought of.
you can see the 5-sided building on google maps, but it’s not a geodesic dome any longer… the owner liked the new layout enough that, when i moved out, he expanded the second floor, and added a new roof.
that got me primed… then, when i finally made it to burning man, in 2008, i encountered very many domes of different sizes and constructions, and that got me hooked.