We have a chipmunk living under our patio. 🤔
https://www.bonappetit.com/story/a-restaurant-for-a-chipmunk
If you work or live around Old City, the water main work at 3rd and Arch is killing businesses there. The street is closed, sidewalks are open, but it's killing foot traffic anyway. OCP Grill is normally nearly full every lunchtime, and today I saw 4 orders in an hour. If you have the means, please give these local businesses your support. They aren't exaggerating when they say traffic is down as much as 70%.
We have a beast of a laser printer, a Xerox Phaser 6280 with duplexer, that is low on toner and to-o-o-otally not worth it to refill for us because it's down to needing manual refills if you don't want to pay about twice the cost of a new printer.
But a long time ago I put some googly eyes on it, so now it has a personality and we can't just scrap it. I mean, look at that face.
So, uh, does anybody who rolls their own toner cartridges want a very heavy laser printer?
When a coworker thanks you for doing something for them, don't say, "no problem," or "it's my job". Say, "You're welcome."
I started doing this a few years ago and it's surprising how it feels. It acknowledges that you have done a service, that it wasn't trivial, and that your coworker's needs weren't trivial. I doesn't brush off the transaction and makes it more authentic. It's so weird how we avoid being genuine in this context.
Site Reliability Engineer for Linode in Old City