no. not normal at all..

I was just thinking about this, and it made me sad. I think in an AirBnB or a Bed and Breakfast, you treat the hosts like you would another person in you social circle/class. You’d be ashamed to leave behind a filthy room. This isn’t as often the case for hotel cleaning staff, and race and class has more than a little…

It’s the weirdest stay I’ve had yet in an airbnb, but it was close to Dogtown on St. Paddy’s, so we made it work. I’m always looking for dog-friendly homes, anyway, and there aren’t enough healing crystals in the world for a host like that.

I’ve tried scrubbing grills and my many cast-iron pans with multiple methods and never been so happy as when I bought a chainmail scrubber. It is the fastest, easiest, most effective, and least wasteful method.

That’s a great tip for visiting any big city.  Not only can the distance be deceiving, but there are lots of interesting things to see along the way that you can see if you walk but you’d miss on transit.

Man, if you guys think a 45-60min leisure walk is far...

That distance can also be deceiving. I went to NYC with a couple of friends a few years ago, and convinced them to walk from Greenwich Village to the World Trade Center because it was “only THIS far on the map”. Now, “only THIS far on the map” has become an inside joke whenever they wish to mock me.

Exceptional reading comprehension

As an ex-Londoner, I was kind of weirded out by how ‘small’ NYC is on my first visit, especially on that east-west axis.  Which of course is great, as the best way to get to know a town is to walk it.

And it’s not just Apple Pay either. I mean all our credit cards come with chip technology in them and you use a pin similar to a debit card. It is less common for a place to not accept contactless payments than the other way around where I live in Edmonton.

My one coworker does this a lot. He’ll be sick and be like OMG GUYS I’LL BE CHECKING EMAILS NO WORRIES. Like, dude? Just go home. Stay home. Don’t think about this stupid place. Not worth it.

This is the correct attitude to have. Snow (or here flood) days are a gift from the universe. Answer emails as they come in while you’re watching Maury, make a little headway on a project but dang it, you know when the weather is bad the internet connection just doesn’t go as fast. Oh well!

That’s so funny, in the past I’ve tried to be available by email in case people need me, but my supervisor told me to cut it out. I guess they actually want people to not work when they’re staying home sick. It’s a hard thing to force myself to do, but I appreciate it.

This is definitely something true in my office as well. Everyone has a laptop and VPN connections to the office servers, and already allowed to work from home as they’d like and encouraged to do so when weather is bad. So almost no one takes real sick days, we just go home and keep working.

128GB space gray model shows as $429.00 for me...

128GB space gray model shows as $429.00 for me...

My family used to use the Sunday comics to wrap presents.  You know, back when newspapers were a thing.

There’s never a bad time to mention exactly what the Wall Street Journal describes as the middle-class:

I already made the Fast Hawk. It flies really well. I’m not going to go get it...

Mamot Precip. Pretty cheap (usually under $80), very breathable, has pit zips and folds down to its pocket.

Mamot Precip. Pretty cheap (usually under $80), very breathable, has pit zips and folds down to its pocket.

I hate myself for laughing so fucking hard at that comment.