well tiff and tech fans we're here with professional drivers
chauffeur extraordinaire yeah we haven't died yet so this is good
we're on our way to muskoka um we're staying there for two nights paul's gonna do a lot of golfing
which i'm sure you're very excited about yes your eyes on the road don't look at the camera focus
no and um i'm gonna be working still i'm gonna be working um monday we come back tuesday yeah
just like two two night little getaway just to get out of the house and do something a little
bit different yeah it's super gorgeous up here it's like all nature's we go hiking
um we got some great restaurants stay tuned we'll keep you filled in okay so we just got
to the room paul is already out golfing but i'm going to give you a quick little room tour
um and then i have a bit of tiff and tech work to do and then i am going to go explore okay
so we have we just put all our stuff down so it's a little bit of a mess we have the bed
a little seating area tv with another seating area we also have a really nice fireplace
actually which will be amazing and the best part is the view look at these chairs here
this this is where i am going to be working for the next few days with this view like how
gorgeous is this okay let's go outside actually i gotta give you a proper view
how gorgeous is this it's so peaceful
so yeah this is um we decided to just kind of get out of toronto for a bit and paul wanted to do
some golfing of course and they have some amazing golf courses up here so i'm not golfing i know
i'm kind of trying to learn how to golf but i'm definitely not there yet where i can actually like
join him on like a professional fancy golf course um so i'm gonna go on a hike today um
and i actually i know it's very not exciting but i have some work i need to do for a tiff and tech
stuff some invoicing and contracts and things like that so i'm gonna finish that and then what
is going on with my hair here and then um yeah go explore and be in nature hi okay so i um went on
a little walk and came by the water which is so gorgeous i'll show you in a second here i have
to keep my hand heroes it's so bright um but it's just so nice and so relaxing and honestly it just
makes me so thankful to have a job where i can be working remote or working anywhere kind of
from anywhere which is just honestly i'll never take for granted it's so nice and just to not
have to be going into office but just open up your computer and work from anywhere in the world is
honestly it never gets old and it's one of the favorite parts my favorite parts about my job
and i definitely want to talk to you a little bit about the pros and cons
of working remote because there definitely is so many pros and cons it's not just like
all pros even though most of the time it feels like it but it can be kind of
lonely or you know when you're working from home especially it can get kind of lonely working
remotely but then it's moments like this where you actually get to travel
or go on little trips and get away that you're like thank goodness i'm currently working remote
hi friends good morning um i'm just on my way to get some coffee and then get i had some meetings
this morning which i just finished um one for um ibm and then one for different tech so
a really cool partnership coming up actually with a cryptocurrency company
um and they focus on bitcoin and i'm really excited about that so i've had some really
great chats with them about creating content because i want to create content that like
even if it's around cryptocurrency that is accessible to everyone like everyone can
understand it and how it works and just make it easy to understand like it shouldn't be this big
barrier of entry anyways about that i am just on my way to get some coffee i've already had
one this morning but what is who needs just one when you can have multiple cups of coffee
okay coffee is a success oh i have to show you the shirt i'm wearing actually we got a
bunch of i think i mentioned this i'm not sure but we got a bunch of really cool vintage um
kind of tech shirts so i'm wearing a star wars run right now well star wars on the back anyways um so
i'll show you when i get i can't really do much right now because it has this is a skill um yeah
i'll show you when i get back to the room but uh yeah so now i'm gonna go back to the room finish
up a big feature i've been working on and also because it is a front-end feature i'm going to
meet with the designer just to get approval on the designs i like to get approval on designs before i
actually do a pr for it because sometimes what you think the designer wants and what they actually
want are two different things so it's good just to be on the same page before the code actually gets
live into production and then the designer's like really upset with you like what did you do
you know we just like to developers just like to add their own features to things and make it
how we want it to be so i just got back to the room a while ago i've been doing a ton of work
um for just different to finishing up my ticket and then what else was i doing
finishing my ticket mostly making sure that the designs were okay i had to change something so
focused on that but i wanted to come on here because i told you i would show you my shirt
so let's see i know it's gonna be flipped on the camera but can you see it says star trek
the next generation how sweet is that i just love this shirt we just got it um
oh and i look like i have a stain on it already this is how clumsy i am
um but yeah i'm really into like vintage kind of graphic tech teas lately um so you'll see like
them in a lot of my what is this hair this is it's the disaster this is what happens when you spend
your whole morning coding and drinking coffee i'm going it's lunchtime now so i'm going to go to the
restaurant and just take myself out for some lunch um paul is still golfing and then he'll be done
around the end of my work day and we are going to go on a bike ride or do a hike or some kind of
outdoor activity because it's so gorgeous right now i'll show you what i'm looking at like amazing
this is some of the benefits of working remote obviously the setup which i will show you as well
is not perfect like there's just a computer with a bunch of stuff but i can't imagine ever going
fully back into office i mean it would be nice to go back into office sometimes but i'm definitely
for not going into office full-time i absolutely love working remote and
just uh yeah i wanted to make this video and have some more like pros and cons but
i feel like i'm biased because it's just so amazing working remote and being able to travel
and work from anywhere and i mean obviously there's downsides like wi-fi sometimes wi-fi
sucks or fails but overall it's just so much more freeing and makes working for a company
a lot more enjoyable in my opinion um but i'm interested to hear what your thoughts are are
you fully remote are you a mixture like a hybrid uh what's your preference because i
think everyone has such a different preference i've noticed so a lot of people prefer hybrid
which i would too and i'm sure i'll get back to doing hybrid it just hasn't happened yet here in
canada we're all remote still um but one day that will happen okay i am just going to the
restaurant to get some lunch um and have a little date with myself aka answer emails but you know
okay so what are we doing we're going kayaking we're going kite this is your idea yeah we'll see
as long as we stay in the kayak i feel like we're okay stay tuned we might end
up in the lake we might end up like i hope not to bring my phone so we'll see hey we're here
a lot i know she was like oh chip you can sit in the front and you know
paddle if you want or whatever and then there's call back there the muscle
the powering us through i know we're going pretty fast i gotta say this is impressive
although it is only like one like the water i think is like one foot deep maybe two maybe
two so if we fall over it this isn't exactly high-risk kayaking no it's not but it's really fun
being a rebel and took off his life jacket i said you're being a rebel and take off your lifejacket
you're over it it's kind of warm too it's really warm give me a life jacket that would fit tiffany
it's really warm actually warm the sweatshirt's next thing i know i'm really warm
oh and then water yeah i know the water is like i don't know if you can see but it's
like my legs are completely wet now but it actually feels really nice so there you go
okay here we are
okay we just finished we saw so we're at our friend's cottage and um
paul saw he said that we could borrow his jet ski so we're going to see
sorry see you and jet ski is standing still oh i'm sorry i'm sorry my hat i lost my hat
we got it back it's okay yeah we lost the hat in the middle of the lake oh my goodness and
then we almost ran out of gas so we thought we'd better bring it back it was quite the adventures
now we are going back though too the kayak this is fun i'm having a lot of people here
okay hi friends okay we just got back um to toronto from muskoka i was gonna vlog more of um
like coming home but honestly it was just me sitting there with my computer working and taking
meetings because i had to it drives about an hour and a half and i had to have some meetings so
i was literally just sitting like in the front with a pillow and then my laptop on the pillow
uh taking some different calls for work and different things like that but it actually
went pretty smoothly um i didn't lose service or anything which was so good and uh yes now i
have the entire day back at home to work it feels so good to be in my office with double monitors
as you can see which makes me so happy and um kind of getting back into the swing of things
um the break was so needed and it just felt so good so i feel totally like ready to i don't know
continue out the week and even just like little getaways like that make such a difference and
i don't know really help you know paul's now paul and i both now you know all our businesses are
digital and where i work at ibm is all digital right now like i can work from anywhere so it's
really nice to be able to do those kind of little getaways and little trips um obviously we want to
do some bigger ones which hopefully will be coming what bigger trips are we doing this year i feel
like this year is not too many big trips but a lot of really fun small trips and then next year is
like europe um a lot in the states a lot of really fun trips coming up but this year just because it
was so unexpected still or unknown with everything going on in the world that we just kind of
um are doing more smaller little trips but anyways oh i want to show you i got this really cool you
can see it's right there um kind of light to add on to my desk set up here one second i'll show you
okay so you can't really see it doesn't look like it's on you can't talk it's so bright in
here right now but in the evening it'll be better but it looks like a book but what it is let's see
come on it's like magnetic so it's hard to open see if i can do this with one hand how talented
am i there we go you can open it to become this gorgeous light like how lovely is that
i mean once again it really is bright i promise you just can't tell but it's so nice so i thought
i'd make a nice addition for right here and then i took these books down that were above it
um so i'm gonna replace it with that but i think it's a nice addition i'll show you i'll put it up
once again this is hard to do with one hand not that talented okay there we go
and then i'll step away and show you this is where the desk the progress is at right
now as you can see and then i have the peloton over here my camera cause i was just filming
um and then the big win window over here with some more filming equipment and then the mirror
over here but it's just kind of getting to be a disaster in this corner so i need to figure this
out it's just like random filming equipment but this let's focus on this because this looks really
nice right now okay but i think i'm going to end the vlog here for this week i hope you enjoyed it
and um kind of felt relaxing as well coming along with us to muskoka and getting away and
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