I have a terrible confession to make

[typefitter]

Apparently, community workspaces are a thing now? I was talking to a former SI colleague who joined The Athletic at the same time I did. Working remotely all the time is an adjustment if you've never done it before (I did at FanHouse) and she said another former SI colleague goes to this community workspace twice a week. Pays like $200 a month but there are drinks and snacks and other people. I might do it if the company paid but I also wouldn't ask the company to pay. Besides, I kind of like working remotely. Hell, if my daughter hadn't gotten married I can't swear I would have taken a shower since I started the new gig!

The former came home one day when I was with FanHouse and saw me pecking away at a story while in my sweats. "Jesus, do you even own pants that snap anymore?"

My little town is allegedly getting one of these soon. I would use it, I think. I feel a little weird still in the coffee shop, even though I've never been here when there haven't been enough tables, and the staff is really nice to me. I also can't work at home. It is just too easy for me to find other things to do. I need the psychic break of "going to work."

Wrote more than 1,000 words in two hours today, by the way, to make up for missing yesterday with other work. 43,176.

 

[SpeedTchr]

Tell @SpeedTchr we said hello.

Coffee shop? Me?

I have a home office with 200 inches of screens and multiple computers. If I could find a comfortable chair with a built-in shitter, I would never leave!

 

[John B. Foster]

Coffee shop? Me?

I have a home office with 200 inches of screens and multiple computers. If I could find a comfortable chair with a built-in shitter, I would never leave!

You still use these?

 

[SpeedTchr]

You still use these?

I have a very large hard disk... heh heh heh

2TB, get your minds out of the gutter.

 

[Jake_Taylor]

In high school, I wrote a screenplay and saved it on one of those. I think the basic idea is decent, but as you can imagine would need a lot of fine tuning. Of course I don't own a computer capable with that kind of disk drive anymore.

 

[The Big Ragu]

Apparently, community workspaces are a thing now? I was talking to a former SI colleague who joined The Athletic at the same time I did. Working remotely all the time is an adjustment if you've never done it before (I did at FanHouse) and she said another former SI colleague goes to this community workspace twice a week. Pays like $200 a month but there are drinks and snacks and other people. I might do it if the company paid but I also wouldn't ask the company to pay. Besides, I kind of like working remotely. Hell, if my daughter hadn't gotten married I can't swear I would have taken a shower since I started the new gig!

The former came home one day when I was with FanHouse and saw me pecking away at a story while in my sweats. "Jesus, do you even own pants that snap anymore?"

I have an office I have set foot in maybe 15 times over the last year. I am not even in the same city as it most of the time. Granted, what I am doing every day is very different from what you are doing, but I have home office setups that work really well for me, and I love it. It's one aspect of my work life that I love the most. Some days I am at work before the roosters are crowing. And a lot of hours, in general. But I always feel like I control my time and have a great degree of independence (which I love) because of how I work.

The lack of other people is actually a selling point for me. For one, I don't have your sunny and genial personality. And when I am working, I don't want other people bothering me. I have periods every day that requires extreme concentration -- things are fast moving. I want the solitude during those moments, in particular.

I'd guess the big problem for someone getting used to it, is the disciplining themselves. But I have worked on my own for so long (with interludes where I had no choice and had to be in office hell -- and I am always miserable) that it isn't a problem for me. I believe I work harder and more intensely this way.

 

[typefitter]

Okay, this will come off meaner than I want, but I'm at the coffee shop, and the table next to me... Two diabetics are meeting with an Australian man who is some kind of naturopath. (He didn't order anything, which always Pishes me off. You can't just sit here.) He's talking about glucose and "pancreatic fatigue" and he's spouting all sorts of made-up sounding bullship, about how pharmaceutical companies want you on drugs, so they've rigged the eating system to keep people diabetic... And I'm sitting here... The two diabetics, a man and a woman, are both huge. Like, 300+. I am mindful of @Songbird and his progress from diabetic to non-diabetic or at least less diabetic through weight loss and exercise. These two don't have tired pancreases. They're too heavy. They must eat like absolute ship to be the size that they are. They should eat less ship. But instead they're paying some guy to fill them with hokum and blame for a system when they need to eat better and exercise more.

Thank Christ for headphones and Sufjan Stevens.

 

[CD Boogie]

Apparently, community workspaces are a thing now? I was talking to a former SI colleague who joined The Athletic at the same time I did. Working remotely all the time is an adjustment if you've never done it before (I did at FanHouse) and she said another former SI colleague goes to this community workspace twice a week. Pays like $200 a month but there are drinks and snacks and other people. I might do it if the company paid but I also wouldn't ask the company to pay. Besides, I kind of like working remotely. Hell, if my daughter hadn't gotten married I can't swear I would have taken a shower since I started the new gig!

The former came home one day when I was with FanHouse and saw me pecking away at a story while in my sweats. "Jesus, do you even own pants that snap anymore?"

I got sick of it after like five years. I couldn't imagine going back to it. It really was not good for me mentally or socially. When my ex would get home from work, I'd always want to go out to dinner or whatever just to get out of the house.

 

[typefitter]

The woman just said "adjusted enzymes" in the break between Mystery of Love and Visions of Gideon.

 

[Songbird]

#bloodsugar scores the last 5 days ...

May 18
102: after breakfast
110: after lunch
102: after dinner

May 19
122: after breakfast
105: after a non-existent lunch
98: after dinner

May 20
122: after breakfast
106: after lunch
108: after dinner

May 21
108: after breakfast
116: after lunch
103: after dinner

May 22
113: after breakfast
108: after lunch
108: after dinner

May 23
114: after breakfast

You've gotta wanna do it.

 

[SpeedTchr]

I might be interested in Brian's handmade mugs.

 

[typefitter]

#bloodsugar scores the last 5 days ...

May 18
102: after breakfast
110: after lunch
102: after dinner

May 19
122: after breakfast
105: after a non-existent lunch
98: after dinner

May 20
122: after breakfast
106: after lunch
108: after dinner

May 21
108: after breakfast
116: after lunch
103: after dinner

May 22
113: after breakfast
108: after lunch
108: after dinner

May 23
114: after breakfast

You've gotta wanna do it.

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We have had our falling out, but I think you are doing amazingly well, and you should be very proud of your accomplishments here. You're stronger than most, sincerely. You've made yourself the best kind of titanic.