you get a ticket to the tour? i got one shitty seat, but i’ll be trying again friday morning.

And the young local folks!

Also went to high school in Fairfax, graduated 2015. I must not have been cool enough to know about this, lol.

I keep seeing it suggested, but anyone who genuinely expects an underground rail system to come to Richmond is either naive or out of their minds.

I also come from NOVA and love to use the Metro up there, but it's made for a much bigger population (and much higher commuting population, at that) and famously comes plagued with its own delays. Much as I think trains are cool, a bus route is a much cheaper and suitable solution for Richmond. Love the Pulse for commuting.

Yup. It's why I never use the Pulse outside of commuting hours, but moreso about frequency.

I thought about taking it to a spot about two miles from Scott's and the arrival time went from 15 minutes to 30 to none at all. Last time I try that.

I've never had a significant issue taking the Pulse to work. Maybe a delay by a few minutes, but nothing too bad, especially if you're tracking with the GRTC app (not Apple Maps).

It's outside of commuting hours that I've had significant issues.

I used to live right by there and didn’t realize how much I took it for granted till I moved 😭

Not really in Richmond, from what I've found. If you want to make the trek, there's a Micro Center in Fairfax.

I really wouldn't recommend this place. They charge way too much for what they have, and a lot of what they do have is pretty outdated.

I'd just shop on Newegg or Amazon, or consider a trip up to Micro Center in NOVA.

jesus christ. it’s one of those things that’s horrific on such a massive scale that your anger is bigger than your person. good on her for doing the work, as well as anyone she’s worked with.

oh HELL yeah

always down for a new ethiopian place

any recs for restaurant week? 👀

this marks the n^th year in a row where i procrastinated on getting a costume and making plans. idk, never been a huge halloween guy and i was especially less interested these past two years.

gf has plans, so maybe i’ll come up with something.

ah true, you're right. totally forgot about that.

Great advice, thanks!

I think my initial impressions were off by starting on a team that wasn't always receptive to questions (really kinda toxic), so I got that drilled in my head. Gonna need to get over that at some point, haha.

Ok, that's what I figured happened. A lot of question marks fired off in my head when I saw that all three nights were suddenly not sold out.

Could also be that they added tickets to avoid the market being suddenly flooded with resale tickets from people who don't want to go anymore.

apparently so. didn’t even realize they were doing that.

especially weird since IMP typically only does that when the first night sells out. guess they really banked on all of these selling out.

Thanks! Great advice, I appreciate it.

Only thing is that I feel like I'm better at asking for help in an office, where I can see who's busy and actually see how they react when I ask them for help. Being fully remote has been a tough shift for me, but I need to just get over that I guess, lol.

Was this show ever sold out? I thought it was, but I got a notification from Ticketmaster saying to buy tickets for it which "[I] thought were gone" (or something like that).

I just wanna sell mine, man. Beck was the whole reason I was going.

I've been frustrated by this too. I'm sure it's buried in their terms of use, but I figured my ticket would be my ticket to sell and at whatever price I wanted.

You’re right, and I know; I’m just bad at that. I feel like I ask too many questions for someone at the level I’m at and I worry it’d reflect poorly on me.

Also I only know two people who could help me and one of them was on vacation.

I've been stuck on this ticket for a week and suck at asking people for help. Really convinced they'd fire me if given the chance - given how precarious things have been in tech lately, I wouldn't be shocked.

We'll see if this coffee and muffin can soothe me.

probably a source of endless debate and this might not be the best answer, but i love the wavy gravy at the fancy biscuit

i don’t eat meat, so my options for biscuits and gravy are very limited, let alone a biscuit paired with anything at all. super filling, not too expensive, and good coffee too.

I remember liking them when they had them at the café at my old job, but I don’t think I’ve had one since. Might be nostalgia goggles.

IMO Chewy’s has the best bagel in town, but Nate’s lost me even more when I started having to wait so long for my order.

a friend got me in once for a secret tour. really not much to look at - no branding, not even a lot of people, just somewhat large rooms with stacks of servers all whirring away. it’s probably interesting if you’re a dork in the industry who likes to hear stats about how much traffic they process and to see that in person. otherwise, it’s no different from any other server room.