""First, you get to construct the bank. Then fill it with coins, and when the time comes to collect your savings, take it apart. Put it back together and start all over again!"" - Erin
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Awesome! Loved Rachel's equivalent from-the-altar pic too. For those who weren't there, Rachel and Kevin had their officiant say, "May we have the camera" so they could pause and take a picture of each other right after their vows. - Stephen Mack
So happy for you!!! Getting ready to partaaaay! - Erin
I can just hope to feel ready at this stage myself (8 months from now... eek!). Now is time to enjoy all the hard work you put in to make it happen. Wheee! I look forward to the photos! - Ragani Harris
Being basically ready doesn't mean feeling basically ready. :-) You start worrying about what you're missing. - Kevin Fox
I remember the last few days before the wedding being so strange. You realize that by this point, even if something goes wrong, not much you can do! Just sit back and enjoy, it's going to go so quick! (mine is a strange fuzzy blur in my brain) - Georgia Diehl
Would you be more comfortable if we convinced you that you were somehow unready? - Brian Johns
Your very raising the spectre of us not being ready eases my heart. - Kevin Fox
I can't think of any wedding I've been to which has ever gone wrong in any major way. When they have, it's been guest-related drama, which seems hard to avoid. But everyone I know who's getting married seems to really sweat all the details. I can only assume that either everyone worries way too much, or else maybe they're not so much worried about things going wrong for the guests as not having the perfect day for themselves. - ⓞnor
Or maybe sweating the details actually works. :-) - Kevin Fox
All your hard work and preparation paid of in spades (and diamonds, clubs and hearts - the playing cards are just one example of both of your amazing attention to detail). - Martin Taylor
Only secret is patience. My metabolism doesn't lose weight at the same rate as everyone else, it takes longer. What works for others, doesn't look like its working for me. But if I just keep doing it regardless or results, eventually it works. All I did was add a smidge more exercise and watch my portions. And sometimes it would take 3 months or more of no results at all and then suddenly I would drop 8 - 10 pounds. So just patience and persistence, and not letting numbers get me down and make me give up. - Rachel L Fox
I also started almost a year and a half before the wedding, which turns out to be exactly how much time I needed to do it in since I barely have a week before the wedding now. - Rachel L Fox
Pokai - Oh, We have that nearly checked off the list as well! - Rachel L Fox
Congrats! How much credit would you give to Wii Fit helping? Seems to me you used a lot of different techniques, plus mostly personal discipline. - Stephen Mack
Well I have lost 15lbs since having the Wii Fit, but I am not consistant with it, but I would say that it has helped keep me focused. Plus its kinda fun! - Rachel L Fox
“Thank you to all of our wonderful neighbors who un-knowingly allowed us to use their garbage cans to get rid of 14 of the 15 bags of garbage from cleaning our garage!!! Now if I can just get rid of all the cardboard bundles...”
What, nothing for those of us neighbors who actually knew you were doing it? ;) - Cyrus Lendvay
Well of course, but you guys I think in person. Everyone else I just thank in the in that unknown space we call the net so they don't actually know they are being thanked. - Rachel L Fox
Sparky is an expert at that as well! Can you set your cardboard out for recycle pick up? - Erin
We did, but we didn't know how much we could put out at a time. We have almost 30 bundles. We got 11 of them taken away, I think I can get rid of the rest of it next week. - Rachel L Fox
Open toed sandals, now where did I put my white socks..come to think of it my Gorilla costume..BTW are they comfortable?, strangly I reckon they could be, if your'e into climbing/surfing etc, might be able to do some pretty fancy footwork... - Jason Brooks
@paul I bought mine at Transports in Berkeley. That's the only place in the bay area that sells them I think. - Biao
I just saw someone walking around with them a few days ago. Looks pretty strange on the foot. - Amit Morson
@Yan haha Berkeley would be the only place to buy something like this - Danish Khan
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@Danish hah! i get your point but i really do wish they sold them elsewhere so i wouldn't have had to drive that far. that said, i really love my ksos so far. - Biao
Jokingly, I suggested to my co-workers that I was considering having our wedding reception in a bouncy house... but then I found this!!!! - Erin
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There is an unpleasant factor missing from the equation that could change the advice. - Joe Pierce
if the toilet has been flushed, reach in there and get it out. Use it to wash your hands. And you're done! - Matthew Wayne Selznick
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Someone once told me the answer to questions like this was different, based on whether you had raised kids or not and gone through the whole diaper phase. I wouldn't know... - Brian Johns
What do you think I did when I dropped my iPod in the toilet? - j1m
"I work close by and visit once a week or so, reliably great tacos and burritos. I'm mainly a fan of the carnitas and al pastor varieties." - Carl Haynes
You know, they're moving next door into the closed down Andiamo's building. Will the coolness survive? Will they get an actual restaurant license??? Only time will tell. - Brian Johns
I'm finding this wave so annoying, but at the same time a bit entertaining. I'm curious to read what stories spammers think are worthy of making up-- Elizabeth Taylor found murdered, Time Warner sells AOL, Microsoft making another offer for Yahoo (oh wait.. haven't gotten that one yet from these spammers). - Erin
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So true. There's a fifth path where I used to mention that I work for Google, which still leads right back to the 'So I have this problem with my email' box. - Kevin Fox
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Smalltalk when Clare and I meet people at a party -- Rob: I'm a linguist -- "Wow, that's so interesting". Clare: I'm a chemical engineer -- "wow, that's hard. So tell me more about linguistics, Rob. Don't you think that the English language is just falling to pieces. I hate it when people use incorrect grammar ... (and all other sorts of linguistics misconceptions) - Robert Felty
It's true.... I married Rob because he is more interesting at parties. ;) - Clare Dibble
Wow, tell me more, Clare. Don't you think it's ridiculous how many chemicals they're putting in our water? I feel like they're trying to contaminate my precious bodily fluids. - Jim Norris
@Kevin - it is the same for the systems administrators as well. My get out of jail free card: "Oh? I have a mac at home. I don't know much about Windows at home." - Jennifer Dittrich
Phillipp Lenssen just IMed me: "So I have this problem with my email..." Priceless. - Kevin Fox
A lawyer and doctor happened to make small talk at a party. A man interrupted them, saying to the doctor, "Excuse me, but you're a doctor right?" He then asked about a health condition, and the doctor hemmed and hawed and then gave him some general advice. When the man went away, the doctor turned to the lawyer and said, "I just hate it when people ask me medical advice at a party. I just don't know how to tell them that when I'm off-duty, I don't want to give them free medical advice." The lawyer nodded... - Stephen Mack
...and suggested that the doctor send the man a bill for $200 for a consultation. "What a great idea!" the doctor said, and was very pleased with himself when he did so on Monday morning. Two days later, he received a bill for $200 from the lawyer. - Stephen Mack
Jim, Is that a Dr. Strangelove reference? - Clare Dibble
To a large extent, anyone with a serious profession gets this. (serious as in nobody plays one on tv). You could of course mention that you work for FriendFeed. - j1m
@Stephen: I think Clare was asking because she fears Jim is actually crazy. - j1m
I thought it was the professions that *did* get played on TV where people are asking for help. Professions that don't get played on TV just get "huh" or "that sounds nice" or a change of subject. - ⓞnor
I was mostly reacting to the fact that he gets "that's nice" for some of his answers. But yeah, there's also this issue that people go for the nearest cliche. And yeah, then there's the likelihood that Kevin is just about the best person to help with those email problems, leaving us to wonder what he's complaining about. - j1m
j1m, not everyone uses Gmail. :-) At least I no longer have to justify the omission of a 'delete' button, and I've got my spiel for why we used labels instead of folders down pretty well. - Kevin Fox
And I thought Rachel and I had a bunch of photo equipment! Check out the packing gallery to be enlightened on what it's like to be a pro photographer. Hey, at least as a photojournalist he didn't need to bring much in the way of lights. - Kevin Fox
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wow.. delicious to say the least. Looking forward to see all the awesome pictures. - Akshay Dodeja
there is no way this is just one persons stuff, unless you're ken Rockwell. Even then, nobody in their right mind would pack all this. It must be some sort of shared group pool. - Dustin
I could see this being the gear that a sports photographer for Newsweek would take to the Olympics. As he mentions in the article, he sets up several cameras at specific angles and has remote triggers to fire them so he's not limited to one shot. - Kevin Fox
Indeed!!! Don't like, don't like, don't like!!! So tired...and so many more hours to go until my day actually "starts". - Erin
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Quoted departure time #7: 10:10am. Emminent push off from gate looming to sit on the tarmac. Going on 3 hours at seat 23D. We're becoming great friends. - Erin
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Alledgedly....we are going to leave now. Wish me luck! (Though im feeling pretty damn lucky- open seat next to me and no checked luggage.) - Erin
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Oh my god.... Them some storms!!! Holy crap-its like being in a movie- huge lightning, thunder is like movie theater level - and torrential rain!!! (oh yeah... made it to chi town- took me 7 hours!) - Erin
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I really miss thunderstorms. Good luck though! - Rachel L Fox
Flying into Chicago is never fun...even when the weather is great. But, you have to forgive the ATC on this one...they had tornados last night. - Ryan Kaisoglus
