5761

At a bachelor party? Not really. You’re supposed to put on a performance too and pretend that are enjoying yourself until it’s someone else’s turn.

5762

I’ve been asked to be a bridesmaid for one of my oldest friends! I am so excited!

5763

That’s easily fixed in photoshop.

(also, i’m glad bitchy aunt lost)

5764

Hey, I’m shorter than the bride and more tan than her sister. I also wear the hell out of red. Where is the problem?!

5765

Hahahahahahahahhaa!

5766

Thanks! I’m really excited to be able to study what I love. I just hope that I’ll still love it in four or five years.

5767

That’s always the rub. I was supposed to go the graduate school for a specific history field (which I love) but the grad school hosed me at the last minute by pulling the financial offer after I had already officially withdrawn from consideration at other schools. I was somewhat relieved in that I felt like I needed a break, but ended up going somewhere else on an “interim” basis and realized I wasn’t cut out for academia. I still love the subject and know as much as most professors, but am glad its a hobby and not a career.

5768

I got my beekeeping exam results through, it was like stepping through a time warp opening the envelope.

I passed with a credit.

This entitles me to do absolutely nothing different to before but knowledge is power and all that.

I’m also up to three beehives now and just moved one onto a nature reserve where they can gorge themselves on clover and blackberries.

5769

This didn’t happen to me, but I witnessed it and it was fairly interesting.

Yesterday at work a co-worker got stuck in a failed elevator. Poor guy was by himself and didn’t have his mobile phone on him, so he got a bit freaked out. Luckily some yelling was effective in summoning help. The doors were pried open and he climbed out. In the end he was only stuck for twenty minutes. Now distrustful of elevators, he decided to take the fire stairs back to his office instead of one of the other elevators.

He then proceeded to fall down a flight of stairs. No injuries but a few bruises and he took the whole series of events in good humor thankfully. The guy really is an accident magnet though.

5770

I’ve had a few times here where the elevator door decided not to open for a minute or so. There are few waits quite as long as that one - especially when you don’t have your phone on you.

5771

There was an incident back in 2002 where my then-housemate (QT3’s own Matt Bowyer) and I were working a temp job - simple short-term manual labor, carting new LCD monitors and desktop printers up to offices, installing them, and taking away the old CRT monitors. We had been given orders from our supervisor (a laid-back Nigerian named Serge) to go vanish for a few hours since our actual work was done for the day (before 11:30, even) and if we showed back up at the office, we’d all probably be sent home. So we got told to vanish until 3:30.

Bowyer and I hop into an elevator on the 16th floor or so, and happily head down for lunch. Elevator fills with various suits and admin people, and we get down to the first floor…

…where the doors proceed to open an entire inch and stop. We wait about thirty seconds before people start whining and someone’s starting to get rather claustrophobic. No answer on the Call For Help button, so I figure “Hell with it, I’m not missing my lunch break”, stick my hands into the crack between the doors, Mighty up and wrench the elevator doors open to the applause of our trapped comrades.

Forty-five minutes later, I’m trying to eat a Quarter Pounder and having one hell of a time since I can no longer lift my arms above my waist. I think I managed to strain every single ligament in my upper body with that little stunt.

Lesson learned: respect the elevator.

5772

Lesson learned: when the doors won’t open in an elevator full of people, get other people to help you pry open the doors.

5773

Begone, your silly “logic” has no place here!

5774

I like how that story could be a back story to your username.

5775

Hahaha! I lived in Puyallup. I think that one and Sequim tie for hardest to pronounce correctly. Always entertaining to watch a national newscaster butcher them.

5776

Just got back from dentist where I had two fillings replaced and a temporary crown put in. I feel like I’m officially old again.

5777

I don’t usually even think about LinkedIn spam but this doesn’t appear to be a recruiting company, seems this person actually works for Apple.

Does anyone know where the iPhone/iPad Applications & Frameworks team is located?

5778

There’s an ad running on the radio here right now where they manage to mispronounce Enumclaw, of all things. ;-)

5779

I thought 99% of Apple engineering is in Cupertino?

http://jobs.apple.com

5780

Reeeaaaly? That’s the easiest, phonetically!