If it’s a recurring event type thing, usually a month with a reminder sent the week before. Super casual one off for summer vibes, usually 1-2 weeks.
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With my friend groups, anywhere from 1-8 weeks! We have a few friends with super busy schedules (performers, business travel, childcare) so those are the extreme end. For local friends who don’t travel as much, 1-2 weeks. Maybe a month’s notice if it’s really important to me, like a birthday or big milestone.
Gosh I am ready for it to be grill season.
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I use Interval Run. It’s fairly bare bones and it can run simultaneously with Overcast, which is what I use for podcasts.
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My friend’s occasional front porch happy hour? Same day. Anything involving people with kids? Weeks or months.
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Weather plays such a big part in an event like that. I’d probably do 3 days up to about a week in advance for something casual. But, I’d also be mentally prepared for them to not be able to come.
My Wi-Fi is out, and we have two people who need to work remotely in my house. We need the ability to make phone calls, with fast enough internet to be on zoom and screen share, ideally. One of the adults has a very loud voice.
Can you think of any location options for us besides local library (all the study rooms are booked), someone else’s house, or an office? Right now best option is library for Wi-Fi, and then take phone calls in the car?
Thank you!
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Can you hot spot?
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We have a hot spot! We can do it on my wife’s phone. Limitations are that her service is so bad in our neighborhood that it won’t work at our house, and that it may not be fast enough for zoom.
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What a pain! Zoom has a thing where you can call in audio-only from a regular phone. I’ve done that before during internet outages. Most meeting invites have it listed in the giant block of text that comes when you copy the Zoom info.
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I have the same problem with my hotspot. Bummer!
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Is there a community college near you? Mine has unsecured wifi and a nice lobby/study area and I’ve gone there several times when my wifi has been out. Probably not the best place for phone calls, but for general working it would probably be fine
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Any coworking spaces in your town? We have a few nearby that offer day passes. I think they have bookable rooms for private calls.
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Are there any co-working spaces in your area?
ETA: Oops, Noodle beat me to it!
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I knew you all would have great ideas! Thanks, friends. At library today and will go to coworking space tomorrow if this keeps going on.
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Sometimes yes, sometimes no. I haven’t had that brand!
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Do you pay this for yours? I’m used to like 1.59 for a box of Mueller’s, or even 1.00 for store brand. I’m a little afraid to buy it in case I love it!
Cascatelli is fun and yummy:
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I haven’t had all the shapes but it’s pricey because it’s a smallish company, and I think they mostly use organic grain. They do tend to be sturdier/more Al dente, which I enjoy. But I also mostly get de cecco which is 2x normal grocery store $
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I agree with @noodle. I find too cheap is often not very good (like Ronzoni) but some more expensive brands are not any better than Barilla or something like that.
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