What Are You Doing Right Now

dafyre

I just found out that people who like spicy foods are called pyro-gourmaniacs. I like this term, and plan to use it to describe myself as often as possible...

There's a couple of folks around here like that... Nice to learn a new word, lol.

RojoLoco

@coliver I read it on a spicy food website, but I'm going to add it to my dating profile

art_of_shred

@RojoLoco said:

@coliver I read it on a spicy food website, but I'm going to add it to my dating profile

Does your wife know?
EDIT: I was reading this as though it were Chad who made that comment. Oops.

MattSpeller

@Joy said:

@MattSpeller said:

2 hour unexplained outage from our ISP for the WHOLE !#&%^!(&#^ ISLAND

Wow! You're living in an Island?
Pretty cool

Fellow island dwellers

scottalanmiller

@MattSpeller Don't forget me

MattSpeller

@scottalanmiller said:

@MattSpeller Don't forget me

lol until you commit, I'm only going to pencil you in

RojoLoco

@MattSpeller - @scottalanmiller is only a temporary islander....

scottalanmiller

@RojoLoco said:

@MattSpeller - @scottalanmiller is only a temporary islander....

My next home is also on an island. We just got our next house and it is on Crete.

dafyre

@scottalanmiller said:

@RojoLoco said:

@MattSpeller - @scottalanmiller is only a temporary islander....

My next home is also on an island. We just got our next house and it is on Crete.

How are you setting all of this up? using AirBNB? How do you find all of these places to rent for a month?

brianlittlejohn

Just got a phone call for a Microsoft Self-Audit... the whole thing seems fishy....

scottalanmiller

@dafyre said:

How are you setting all of this up? using AirBNB? How do you find all of these places to rent for a month?

AirBNB, VRBO, etc. Dominica is a whiz at this stuff. This place in Galveston is a holiday stop for us, so one month is not the norm. Our home in Crete is for the full 90 days of our visas.

MattSpeller

It's patch Tuesday but MS apparently.... forgot?

coliver

@scottalanmiller said:

@dafyre said:

How are you setting all of this up? using AirBNB? How do you find all of these places to rent for a month?

AirBNB, VRBO, etc. Dominica is a whiz at this stuff. This place in Galveston is a holiday stop for us, so one month is not the norm. Our home in Crete is for the full 90 days of our visas.

How does the visa process work? You apply for a tourist visa and you get it? Or is there more to it?

scottalanmiller

@coliver said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@dafyre said:

How are you setting all of this up? using AirBNB? How do you find all of these places to rent for a month?

AirBNB, VRBO, etc. Dominica is a whiz at this stuff. This place in Galveston is a holiday stop for us, so one month is not the norm. Our home in Crete is for the full 90 days of our visas.

How does the visa process work? You apply for a tourist visa and you get it? Or is there more to it?

It totally depends on your nationality. We carry US Passports at the moment, exclusively, but are working on that. Greece is a Schengen member, so their visa is shared with all of the Schengen. As Americans, the 90 day tourist and work visa is automatic and paperless. Most Americans aren't even aware that a visa exists (hence how my friends got trapped with nowhere to go in Europe because they didn't realize that they had to track their visas) because they are so easy.

So we get 90 days, no questions asked as we arrive in Athens. Once that visa expires we have to be outside of the Schengen for 95 days before going back in. To bypass this we would have to petition the Greek government for a Schengen visa extension. The extension would limit us to Greece, though, and not the Schengen which is very important to understand. It would not stop us from getting another 90 days in Denmark, though, also automatic.