We want to start picnicking. Are there any must have items you wish you thought to bring the first few times?

Spent my Monday with another case of the Mondays.

There is this neat feature these days called “search”.

Related to pipes… if the cold weather extremes extend to warm climates, pipes won’t stand a chance. I watched Austin’s MFH world implode when every building had catastrophic pipe bursting because they didn’t insulate for that kind of weather. It was apocalyptic feeling hearing all of the fire alarms going off for days, no water.

I’m with you. Timber frame construction, specifically in mid to high rise buildings, obviously has come a long way. IF your fire suppression systems fuck up down the line….yikes. That’s why we have inspections and code, but we’re not quite getting any better at those things as time progresses in some regions of this country. (Uneducated opinion)

For real. 9/10 people would look at my screen and be like, “I literally have no idea what this is”. They may get a glimpse of my wicked Slack meme skills though.

Henrico libraries are basically free WeWorks without all of the fluff. Highly recommend. You can reserve rooms if you need to be on calls.

It can be rude to the business, and to who is on the other end of your call. It can also be neither if you use common sense. Information security is the same, use common sense.

Dont hijack a spot in a cafe all day. Keep it moving after a little while. These places have very limited seating. Never take important calls in public if you cannot control your environment. If you have a loud ass speaking voice, being on a work call is as bad as someone facetiming with speakerphone on. Common sense defeats all of these issues.

Source: remote worker of 4+ yrs

Boss/CEO has been on vacation all week, therefore I’ve been on vacation all week. This weekend will consist of massive Sunday scaries.

I left a good review with a side note that the seating wasn’t very efficient at the time and he responded with snark. Stopped going once Riverbend leveled up. I should’ve done so after paying $9+ for a specialty drink tbh.

We need more coffee competition here. That’s how I measure how far along a city is in its boom. We don’t even have late night cafes yet.

I’m going to need one of those beer hats, but with the tubes plugged into my nostrils and full of Flonase Ice (for extra zing).

Allergies. That is all.

That’s awesome, enjoy that bonus day off. Very jealous

✋🏻 with a little luck and compromise we did it though. (finds haunted burial site in crawl space, sacrifices s/o)

$9 for a latte for sure.

100%. This isn’t my fav RVA caffeine fix, but at RIC it’s slim pickings.

> The level of Austin-ites buying houses in Md/Fan is notable.

That would’ve been me if I was a year earlier to the party. I’m happy to spread our yeehaw influence out a bit.

I grew up in the golden era of Pokémon. Nothing was more intense than wheeling and dealing holos in passing period in elementary school.

Then it got worse. I would make my mom buy me Japanese holos from hobby stores and I would be the weird kid with rare Pokémon’s trade raping others. I still mess around with the GB games on emulators from time to time. So fun.

I knew we were overdue

Ayyyy my fellow Austin escapees are outliers. I know there’s quite a few (like 10) of us. Will we be spared from scrutiny? Tune in to the next “Richmond is the next Austin” post/comment to find out!

NH looks like a nice place to be. Geographically it’s in a good spot, kind of like here. Closer to Maine and Canada which is neat. Winter is the big difference.

Fell asleep on the couch last night, bent ass neck. Woke up at midnight, transferred to concrete slab bed, couldn’t sleep for another 2.5 hours, wake up at 7:30 with bent neck and solidified spine. Time to butt chug espresso.

I just spent way too much time on that map. The things we do this planet and to ourselves just to perpetuate capitalism to benefit the 1%. Wild.

Go on

Please continue