# At long last, I join the 'posting from work' crowd **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 24, 2005, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-long-last-i-join-the-posting-from-work-crowd/295975 "2005-03-24T00:46:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![picker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/picker/32/13969_2.png) [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-long-last-i-join-the-posting-from-work-crowd/295975/1 "2005-03-24T00:46:24Z")
And I love it! Admittedly, I have often posted from my home office, but that doesn’t count, because I have tons of down time (i’m a musician and concert promoter - when it’s slow its **slow** ) But on Wednesdays I engineer for one of the local bluegrass stalwarts (The Cork & Bottle String Band) at a local club (The Portal, for the Madison dopers) that I produce. And they finally hooked the engineer computer to the web. So I’m posting from the sound booth, drinking beer and occasionally twiddling knobs. This is great. Man, this is one hell of a way to pass the time. Where have you guys posted from that wasn’t a straight ahead office? ---
**Author:** ![RancidYakButterTeaParty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/53a042/32.png) [@RancidYakButterTeaParty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RancidYakButterTeaParty)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-long-last-i-join-the-posting-from-work-crowd/295975/2 "2005-03-24T00:58:27Z")
Sounds like a charmed existence to me. I have posted from my sister’s house about 740 miles from my own, but that’s about as crazy as it gets for me. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-long-last-i-join-the-posting-from-work-crowd/295975/3 "2005-03-24T01:06:08Z")
I posted from a PDA once, but it’s way too friggin cumbersome. Right now I’m posting from my laptop at home. I usually post from work. (It feels like I live there lately) I once posted via a website that could make any other website do funny things. I think I was posting from a negative-image back-to-front SDMB ---
**Author:** ![picker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/picker/32/13969_2.png) [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-long-last-i-join-the-posting-from-work-crowd/295975/4 "2005-03-24T01:40:40Z")
Yea, I’ve posted from numerous wi-fi enabled coffee shops on the road, but never from a sound booth in a club. The band’s on break. I just did a shot of Turkey with the banjo player. It’s doubly cool because I’m running the set break music from my iPod. Currently, we’re enjoying a little live Del McCoury. I guess the next trick is to see how much I can drink and manage to not screw up the sound (pretty hard to do at this point) and continue to drink. Oh, and **RYBTP** - the life of a musician is indeed glamorous. But poor, my friend, very poor. If I didn’t promote shows and engineer on the side, I’d be living in a cardboard box. But the perks of the job are indeed sweet, I must admit. Time for a car bomb, methinks… ---
**Author:** ![picker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/picker/32/13969_2.png) [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-long-last-i-join-the-posting-from-work-crowd/295975/5 "2005-03-24T01:42:02Z")
Upon review, I should clarify - that would be drinking an Irish Car Bomb, not running a checkpoint in the parking lot… 😃