{"id":2360,"date":"2007-10-26T10:32:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/?p=2360"},"modified":"2007-10-26T10:32:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-26T16:32:00","slug":"never-ever-challenge-an-elf-in-the-kitchen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/26\/never-ever-challenge-an-elf-in-the-kitchen\/","title":{"rendered":"Never (ever) challenge an elf in the Kitchen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My department at work has an annual bake auction as a fund raiser.<\/p>\n<p>Employees and their families bake goods which are then auctioned off.<\/p>\n<p>I offered to <a href=\"http:\/\/elocinnuala.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">elocinnuala<\/a> the chance to have people bid on her creations.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I don&#8217;t want to go into details&#8230; but let&#8217;s do the math.<\/p>\n<p>Software engineers + fund raising + confections.<\/p>\n<p>I got massively &#8216;outbid&#8217; last year.<\/p>\n<p>I found her this morning at 5am in the kitchen still awake from last night.<\/p>\n<p>She went to town&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more We captured the results...--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/lordandrei\/pic\/00021fq3\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/lordandrei\/pic\/00021fq3\/s320x240\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" border='0'\/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-2360\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/26\/never-ever-challenge-an-elf-in-the-kitchen\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-2360\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/26\/never-ever-challenge-an-elf-in-the-kitchen\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-pinterest-2360\" class=\"share-pinterest sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/26\/never-ever-challenge-an-elf-in-the-kitchen\/?share=pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pinterest\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-tumblr sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/26\/never-ever-challenge-an-elf-in-the-kitchen\/?share=tumblr\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Tumblr\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My department at work has an annual bake auction as a fund raiser. 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