Living in a Hotel

"TheRealBicycleBuck" (therealbicyclebuck) 12/11/2019 at 23:12 • Filed to: None

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Most of you know I travel for my job. I stay in the same hotel every week, so I bring a lot of stuff along so I can work in the evenings. That’s my personal laptop on the left, my work laptop on the right, a monitor which splits duty as a second screen for my work laptop and as a monitor for the server. Server? Yep. My office retired a couple of servers, so I nabbed them for testing.

On the far right is the TV which stays on while I’m here to provide some background noise to help drown out the nearby freeway. I already migrated all of my old VMs to the new server back at the home office , so I’ll probably retire the two old servers permanently. Maybe I can talk them into letting me take them home. They’re overkill for most things, but I could see one being a file server/media server and the other being a game server for the kids. Our old desktop is just too old to support more than a couple of players in Minecraft.

fourtitude > TheRealBicycleBuck 12/11/2019 at 23:40

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Pro tip. I used to work in hotel management. If you aren’t doing so already. Work a deal out with the hotel you’re always staying at to store things for you. Then you don’t have to hall all of this.   Almost all the properties I worked in that were business focused and had regular weekly workers staying with us did this. Some would even bring a couple of the large plastic storage totes and label them with their stuff. We would then store them in a ballroom or back office area, scan for their next reservations and try to get them in the room before their arrival.

Bootstrap > TheRealBicycleBuck 12/11/2019 at 23:42

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Nice digs at the courtyard. 

TheRealBicycleBuck > fourtitude 12/11/2019 at 23:51

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That’s a good tip. We’ve worked out a deal with a rate low enough that my company will pay for the weekends. That way, I don’t have to pack up anything! With the lower rate, we expect to save over $10k in hotel costs next year even with the weekends included!

TheRealBicycleBuck > Bootstrap 12/11/2019 at 23:52

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Yep!

fourtitude > TheRealBicycleBuck 12/12/2019 at 00:07

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That is even more prime.