Another day in the life at Bee Busters...

In unrelated news I'm set to go to the Berkeley MUN conference with the Pasadena City College delegation, and I just got my country assignment -- I'll be Israel in 6th Legal, debating the topic of "Laws of Armed Conflict: Defining the Rules of Warfare in the 21st Century." Muahaha.

   A day after coming back from Flagstaff I was off again, bound for Redding, CA w the bee boss Dave & his friend Prof Thoenes (an entomology profressor from Tucson, his parents had owned Southwestern Bee Supply ( Read more... )

   Last Thursday we had the Bee Busters official holiday dinner at this hoity toity restaurant called Partner's Bistro in Laguna Beach (all the entrees were like $35! O= ) Its always fun to hang out with the Bee Busters family. Dave toasted to the best employees ever and then Jeremy toasted to "the best LUNATIC we could work for ( Read more... )

   My camera is fubar!! )=!!!!

Yesterday my boss Dave, his friend Bruce, and technician Ryan went out on Dave's new boat. We went out to San Clemente Island, which is 55 nautical miles off the coast (about twice as far as Catalina Island). We saw several whales, as well as dolphins and sea lions. I got pictures of all these things, and a ( Read more... )

   Yesterday at work I perused countless articles on bee attacks in order to find more sources to cite in my own press releases and such. It quickly became apparent that most of them were about pretty much the exact same thing: people get stung by bees, writer includes a brief overview of the Africanized bee situation, a few quotes are thrown in, ( Read more... )

   Yesterday I put over $11,000 of art on craigslist. At least thats the total we're asking for ... it was bought from real auctions for about $2,500 I think.

This morning we already had an offer to buy one of the paintings for $1,500 --- we'd bought it at auction for $75.

Dave wants to bring me to this auction in LA on August 7th. Says ( Read more... )

   This is the letter-to-the-editor I wrote and submitted today, on behalf of my boss:

Dear Editors,

Recent news reports have hyped up some mild hysteria regarding Honeybee Colony collapse Disorder (CCD) by mentioning that “some U.S. hives” have lost “as much as ninety percent of their bees last winter” (“Mystery bee disease may destroy hives ( Read more... )

   Driving down to Dave's on the Fourth, I saw my first ex, Elena. It was totally like seeing a ghost. I would have pulled over asap to say hi ... but right there where I would have was a motorcycle cop, so it didn't seem like a very bright idea.

Anyway, on the Fourth of July, AKA Fuck the British Day, I made it to Dave's after the ( Read more... )

   Internet's been down all day [Friday]. I can't figure out whats wrong. We have an internet for our connection, but I can't connect to any sites. Its not even sending as few packets of information back as it does when the system is down at my apartment complex. I reset my computer, the modem, and the router, respectively, and nothing seems to ( Read more... )

Hi, my name is Kristofer Ransom Oscar Fricke --according to the subpoena I received--, but you can just call me "KROF". (one of those four names is not supposed to be there. Guess which one ( Read more... )