Wheeeee!

[kickaha]

I have an office assignment! Yay!

It has no windows! Boo!


Ah well, I figured that would be the case.



Now if they could just get me a laptop... "You can't use your personal laptop for work." "Okay, fine, get me one." [ > two months later...] "You can't use your personal laptop for work..." "Riiiiiiiiight."

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[georgmi.livejournal.com]

Of course, once they pony up with the work laptop, it's going to be, "You can't use your work laptop for anything _but_ work"...

And, as convenient as _one_ laptop is, it is a stone bitch trying to manage _two_ of them. It's amazing how few laptop cases are configured for the possibility of carrying more than one.

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

Ayup.

I plan on just keepin' on until told explicitly otherwise.

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

Of course, I am the man who carried two backpacks on a 3-day hike (one with camping gear, one with my entire photography rig including 7-pound tripod), because it was easier to just bring 'em both than to actually combine them into one.

Worked okay on the way in, but I blew out my knee on the beach while shooting the sunset, and it wasn't much fun crawling back out to the car--took me three trips, out with the cameras, back in, and out again with the camping gear.

Thank God I was still shooting film back then, or I might have also wanted to bring my laptop.

I wasn't very happy with the pictures I took, either: http://lonelymountain.net/photo/landscape/washington/olympics/poa_sunset2.html

[badger.livejournal.com]

As a counterexample, I have a friend at $CURRENTEMPLOYER who insists on "no windows" every time they move his office (20 years, it's been several moves on site) and given that the architecture is designed to maximize window count that's actually been slightly hard to do sometimes.

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

Ayup. One of my team members has an office with windows, and she hates it. Says it's too hot in summer, too cold in winter. I may ask her if she wants to switch...

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

All Microsoft jokes aside, "no windows" is my preference as well--my last couple of window offices (current one included) just don't provide enough wall space for my art.

And since I work in downtown Bellevue, who wants to look at what's outside the windows anyway?

[badger.livejournal.com]

Replying to you as directly relevant: I should have mentioned that my friend's reason is he, no exaggeration, covers every square foot of wallspace of his office with prints (mostly Escher, some Roger Dean) and film posters. So he doesn't like windows because he can't use thumbtacks on them.

(I will take your word about downtown Bellevue, having never been there.)

[jason0x21.livejournal.com]

Since we've got the "halls on the outside" plan, nobody has a window unless they're someone really special.

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

Huh. I had been previously unaware of Roger Dean, he's got some interesting stuff--thank you. Dunno if you've been there, but his Web site (http://www.rogerdean.com , natch) also has pictures of his architecture, which I particularly liked--we tried (but failed) to have our street named "Bagshot Row", and I'm thinking his style would fit that theme quite nicely.

Bellevue's not particularly unattractive as cities go, but it's still a city. You can kind of sort of see part of the mountains between the highrises, unless it's raining, which it does pretty often around here.

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

You *have* mountains.

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

...And since you _don't_, for what do you need a window?

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

Speaking of mountains, took this from our Seabeck lot. We'll have this view every night, assuming we can ever afford to build the damn house:

http://lonelymountain.net/photo/landscape/astro/venusolympus1.html

[ginkgo.livejournal.com]

Hey, if you'd get home in time to enjoy the sunset... :D

There's always the belle... ;)

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

Woot! That's my cue... :D

[badger.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's a nice website. There's two large books of Dean's artwork out there: the first one (_Views_) is considered as better than the second (_Magnetic Storm_). Unfortunately, he's not going to release one of his works in print form, so I had to buy the double album it'd been used on. I should get the cover framed.