just meh

talked with a Realtor today. He was a very nice and helpful man, but I quickly realized that finding a house perfect for me and Tonya will be much MUCH harder than I thought. So now I am back to wanting an apartment, well for at least 6 months. So as much as I DO NOT want to admit it…. my father is yet again right!

Work is meh, I feel bad on one hand and on the other I could give a flying fuck. The reason I feel bad is as much as I complain about my boss she really does go above and beyond for me. They are trying to promote me and work out a way to pay me even more money to accommodate for the longer drive… But I am bored out of my mind and I hate how it is over there with the system and just the whole process. So come Monday I Donald Kallail the third will put in … my … 2 week notice!! I am so flippin excited!!

What else… well i read this thing about elevators so I figure I would post it here.

Did you know factoids:

• The Door Close button is there mostly to give passengers the illusion of control. In elevators built since the early 90s. The button is only enabled in emergency situations with a key held by an authority.
• The only known occurrence of an elevator car free falling due to a snapped cable (barring fire or structural collapse), was in 1945. A B25 Bomber crashed into the Empire State Building, severing the cables of two elevators. The elevator car on the 75th floor had a woman on it, but she survived due to the 1000 feet of coiled cable of fallen cable below, which lessened the impact.
• Elevators are twenty times safer than escalators. There are twenty times more elevators than escalators, but only 1/3 more accidents.
• Elevators are also safer than cars. An average of 26 people die in elevators each year in the U.S. There are 26 car deaths every five hours.
• Most people who die in elevators are elevator technicians.
• The Otis Elevator Company carry the equivalent of the world’s population in their elevators every five days.
• The New York Marriott was the first to introduce a smart elevator system that assigned passengers to elevators depending on what floor they were heading to.
• Elevators used to require a two-man dispatcher/operator team to function. The advent of navigational buttons rendered those jobs obsolete.
• The area required for personal space is 2.3 feet. The average amount on elevators is generally 2 feet.
• Elevator hatches are generally bolted shut for safety reasons. In times of elevator crisis, the safest place is inside the elevator.
• The myth about jumping just before impact in a falling elevator is just that — myth. You can’t jump fast enough to counteract the speed of falling. And you wouldn’t know when to jump.
• Due to the laws of physics, elevators can’t be any taller than 1700 feet. Hoist ropes become too heavy after that, snapping at 3200 feet.

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