Moved
Office move accomplished! Granted, we had to move everything ourselves. My day started with me going to the old office and picking up a bag of books, my monitor and all the cabling, and my water bottle, and walking to the new office. I made a couple more trips later in the day to load up more boxes and bags of books, with significant help from Scott, but by the end of the day, everything was either unpacked and in its place or in the recycling bins. So that was all pretty satisfying. We've been specifically enjoined to bring as little stuff over as possible and to not clutter up the office with huge piles of accumulated films and CDs and books and whatnot, and I have to admit that everything looks very nice in its present fairly barren state.
The new office is weirdly samey - three big separate work areas all filled with the same long brushed-aluminum tables, and we have to walk by the other two to get to our work area, so I'll basically see everyone in the office every day - but it's much brighter and cleaner and newer than the old place, with higher ceilings and giant windows and so much more light. My fears from the pictures and diagrams about having enough room for me and my elbows were unfounded; I could lie down full-length on my desk if I wanted to. Plenty of room for book stacking and sorting. I've promised various people pictures, and I'll get to that when I can.
We still need a giveaway shelf in a place the rest of the office can access, and the printers still aren't working, but otherwise, we seem to be pretty much up and running. As of tomorrow, we're down one man for possibly a month, as Editor Josh goes off to be on a jury, and that is going to be a tremendous pain in the ass. But at least we'll be experiencing our ass-pain in a much brighter and airier environment.
Oh, and I'm leaning toward the fondue idea for the move-in party, but it didn't happen tonight; it was put off because the originator didn't get enough responses and didn't have time to corral people, so he suggested a different date, and was then told the kitchen isn't finished yet and it'd be a bad idea to fill the kitchen with slow cookers on that particular date because we've got an important guest visiting the office the next day. So who knows when or if it'll happen, but when it does, there may be chocolate. And come to think of it, it'd be a good chance to get rid of the gigantic supply of wooden skewers I somehow ended up with due to buying them for satay… and then forgetting I had some, and buying more, and then forgetting I had those…
The new office is weirdly samey - three big separate work areas all filled with the same long brushed-aluminum tables, and we have to walk by the other two to get to our work area, so I'll basically see everyone in the office every day - but it's much brighter and cleaner and newer than the old place, with higher ceilings and giant windows and so much more light. My fears from the pictures and diagrams about having enough room for me and my elbows were unfounded; I could lie down full-length on my desk if I wanted to. Plenty of room for book stacking and sorting. I've promised various people pictures, and I'll get to that when I can.
We still need a giveaway shelf in a place the rest of the office can access, and the printers still aren't working, but otherwise, we seem to be pretty much up and running. As of tomorrow, we're down one man for possibly a month, as Editor Josh goes off to be on a jury, and that is going to be a tremendous pain in the ass. But at least we'll be experiencing our ass-pain in a much brighter and airier environment.
Oh, and I'm leaning toward the fondue idea for the move-in party, but it didn't happen tonight; it was put off because the originator didn't get enough responses and didn't have time to corral people, so he suggested a different date, and was then told the kitchen isn't finished yet and it'd be a bad idea to fill the kitchen with slow cookers on that particular date because we've got an important guest visiting the office the next day. So who knows when or if it'll happen, but when it does, there may be chocolate. And come to think of it, it'd be a good chance to get rid of the gigantic supply of wooden skewers I somehow ended up with due to buying them for satay… and then forgetting I had some, and buying more, and then forgetting I had those…