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- Welcome to a new remote work vlog.
This time, coming to you from a hotel room in San Francisco.
I got in last night, fairly late-ish.
Well, it was, like, 8:30, I think,
by the time I got back to my hotel,
so I pretty much just chilled out,
settled in for a bit and went to bed.
This morning, I'm working mostly from this hotel room
which is not super exciting.
I have a lot of meetings today
that I need to make sure I have, like,
an internet connection and a quiet room for,
and they're kind of spread out throughout the day.
So, yeah, that meant no café working
or whatever this morning, but I think,
after my meeting finishes at two today,
I'm going to head to the Webflow offices,
which will be fun to see.
Just for a couple hours to finish off the rest of the day
just so I'm getting a bit of a change of scenery.
I'm here just because I like to add on an extra week
in the States after or before I come here.
A treat, because I'm already coming over anyway for a week,
so why not stay an extra one and, you know,
have some more travel.
And I have some new friends,
most of whom I've not even met in person yet,
we're just, like, friends online,
who are in San Francisco
that I'm looking forward to meeting up with.
So, it's going to be four days of seeing people,
and getting my work done in a new place.
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Right. Getting out of the hotel this afternoon.
I'm going to the Webflow offices,
but I don't know quite where they are inside this building.
So, I'm on a little bit of a hunt.
I'm assuming there'll be an elevator.
There's an elevator.
I just couldn't, like, even go out
and find a café this morning because I had, only,
like an hour between meetings,
and, yeah, like I said, wanted to make sure
I was in relative quiet.
So it's nice to get out of the house now.
I'm pretty done, pretty much, most of my workday,
but there's still a lot that I wanna do.
So, might as well work from here.
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It was a nice afternoon,
working from Webflow, and to get out of the hotel
and be around some other people, you know,
people and tech.
Bunch of really good people who work there.
So, thank you, Webflow, if you're watching
pretty sure you will be, for having me
in your cool office. I like your neon sign.
So I just took an Uber back to my hotel,
but I'm actually going to go find food
before I head up to my room.
I don't even know if you can hear me over this wind.
I'm craving a burger, so that's what's going to happen.
I'm starving, because today, so far,
I've eaten a bagel
and I've eaten an ice cream sandwich
at the Webflow office, so, yes.
Dinner is necessary.
It's Valentine's Day today, and, um, normally Mark and I
don't really celebrate Valentine's Day anyway.
I say not really. I mean, we definitely don't.
But, yeah, it does feel weird when everyone's, like,
planning dinners with their dates, and I'm, like,
I'm gonna go have a burger by myself.
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Got my burger.
It was so cold out there, too,
so the burger's probably slightly cold now.
Mm, maybe a little bit warm, still.
I could have eaten it there,
but I wanted to go back to my room
and watch White Collar while I ate.
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Good morning from San Francisco!
I totally crashed last night.
I put - like, I think I went to bed about 7:30.
Um, just watched some White Collar and
went to sleep really early.
Because, I don't know why, but I was really tired.
Anyway, Wednesday morning now, wait.
Thursday morning now.
And I found this little place that I went to yesterday
and grabbed a bagel with egg and cheese for breakfast.
It was delicious.
So, that's what I'm doing again,
I think I'm probably going to do it
every single morning that I'm here.
Because it was that good,
and it was really cheap, and really fresh.
Then I'm going to the Patreon offices
to meet up with Jarvis and Mayuko and work from there.
And, yep, gonna have lunch there, too.
Should be a good day!
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- Hi! Kay, I'm - I'm not looking at it, okay, wait.
- Oh, sorry, I'm not aiming right.
This is Jarvis. This is Mayuko.
- Hello!
- They're the friends that I keep talking about. A lot.
- Remembering to look at the lens.
- Yeah, look at the lens.
- And not the viewfinder.
- They have had me over to work
from the Patreon offices today,
which is very nice.
We just ran out for lunch, we've just got coffee.
Now, are we going to do some work now?
We should probably do some work now.
- Yeah, I think we're gonna do some work.
- Yeah, we really should.
Hi guys.
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- Good morning!
Uh, so I did a terrible job of vlogging yesterday.
Um, hung out, yeah, at Patreon with Mayuko and Jarvis,
just worked alongside them.
Then, in the evening, I went to meet up with
Zach for drinks.
Zach's someone I've known on Twitter for
many years, it feels like.
Yeah, definitely years.
And he is in our Design Life community as well, so
that was really cool.
And, also, Kevin came along, who did used to be
a member of the Design Life community as well,
so I know him, also, from Twitter.
I did not get footage of any of it.
Not even, like, a B-roll shot because
I was just not even thinking about vlogging, to be honest.
But I'm going to try and do better today.
Annoyingly, I've woken up early to
try and go through all the entries for the
Spaced Challenge, which is a design challenge
Dann Petty has been running.
Um, you would have seen my video about it already,
maybe, by the time this vlog goes up,
if you have been watching all my videos.
But I won't be offended if you don't.
Um, anyway, Dann's asked me to
basically film the video judging some of the designs.
Like, picking out some favorites, giving some feedback.
So I need to go through the entries
but there's no Wi-fi in my hotel.
Like, it's just sitting there.
With the, like, Wi-fi bars loading, loading.
For, like, half an hour and still not connecting.
(sigh)
So, um, just had a shower and got dressed,
and I'm gonna go to Starbucks.
Because there's one just down the street
because it's San Francisco and there's a Starbucks
like, pretty much everywhere.
So, yeah, I'm gonna head there and
do my research, probably have my meeting from there as well,
which is at 8:30.
So, yeah, got a bit of time.
And then I'll come back here and film the video.
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Wi-fi didn't really come back to my hotel for several hours
so I just spent a lot of time in that Starbucks.
Um, now, though, I've just gotten changed
because, did I say already that I'm going to Jarvis'
sketch comedy show tonight? And I just felt like I wanted to
wear something semi-nice?
I didn't really bring any nice clothes with me.
But, yeah. I dunno, just felt like this was more
going out appropriate.
Now I'm just gathering my things
because I'm going to head to the Patreon offices again.
Mayuko is there, and yeah, work alongside her.
Maybe at a café, maybe at the office.
I don't know yet. Whatever she wants to do.
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- Patreon. How may I help you?
- Hi, I'm here to see Mayuko?
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I just spent my afternoon working from
that café right there behind me.
Sipping on this cold brew that's very strong,
so I've hardly drunk any of it.
Also, though, the ice is melted, so it's kind of,
I dunno, increased in its liquid volume.
Now I'm going back to the Patreon office
to meet up with Mayuko, and we're going to
Uber to Jarvis' place to film together.
Then I'm going to go try to meet up with Lucy and Mike
from Zero for a drink,
then it's time for the show, so.
A busy evening ahead.
But I'm planning a day of, like,
trying to relax a little bit tomorrow,
to make up for it.
One of my favorite little design features in
San Francisco is that they have the street names
embedded into the concrete of the street.
Like, the cross street. And that's super smart.
Okay we're at Jarvis'. Mayuko is here.
There's Jarvis.
- We're making Jarvis move stuff.
- Yeah. He specifically said he didn't want us to help.
- [Jarvis] It's true.
- Yeah, so we're just sitting here.
- I'm just gonna move all the pillows to, like, this...
- Man, look at how cozy this one looks.
- [Jarvis] Yeah, I, I know, right?
- Okay, Mayuko, where are we?
- We're at Jarvis' improv show.
- Yeah! It's gonna be great.
We just, like, went for some drinks and some bar snacks.
- (unclear)
- And now we're here. We got good seats, too.
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Good morning! It's my last day in San Francisco today.
My flight's about eight pm tonight,
and check out is in an hour, at 12.
So, a nice late check out which is good,
cause I was out pretty late last night.
After Jarvis' show, I said goodbye to him and Mayuko
and I also met Jordan, who is on the
Sad Boys Podcast with Jarvis.
I don't think I've talked about that podcast in the vlog.
But it's a really good one. You should check it out.
Um, anyway. After I said goodbye to them,
I went to meet up with some friends
that I used to work with at Zero, which was really nice.
And they were at a karaoke bar.
I do not do karaoke myself, because (unclear)
but it was really fun to hang out with them there
and catch up.
I just finished filming a video over there
in front of that window,
reviewing some designs from the Spaced Challenge.
I've got to edit that video now
and also upload it today.
Just to try and stick to my schedule a little bit.
Though, I don't think it would be the end of the world
if I didn't upload it until tomorrow.
And I kind of, would rather, like,
spend time exploring San Francisco.
So, I dunno, we'll see how I go.
I might just wander around
and see the city a little bit.
Because I've pretty much just been
Ubering down to So-Ma and Yaesters
and the Mission District a little bit.
But still.
I wanna go look at the bridge because
when you're in San Francisco you gotta see the bridge.
And, I do love architecture and that sort of thing.
So, even though it's touristy,
that's probably what I'm gonna do today.
I would also not be opposed to eating In-N-Out
one more time while I'm in California.
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I had a really nice lunch with Lucy.
She took me to this, it was like, a Mexican place, I guess,
but it was all vegan, and, yeah, it was really good.
I had a chimichanga, and quite enjoyed it,
because I was starving.
Then we had an ice cream and went and sat in Dolores Park
and just chatted for a while, which was really nice.
Just went for a walk along, like, the waterfront.
Um, I was gonna walk all the way down
to the Golden Gate Bridge but
it's quite far away, to be honest,
and time's getting on.
I think I just wanna get to the airport
so that I'm not having any sort of, last-minute rush.
So, yeah, gonna go back to the hotel now,
where I left my bags, like, in the storage.
And head to the airport!
My San Francisco trip is coming to an end.
I am quite looking forward to going home, to be honest.
Um, yeah. Just really wanna be home
because I haven't been home much this year.
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