I posted probably almost one year ago about having my current office re-done into something more practical and usable.  Well I get to move again and will get new office furniture.  I think I will be getting new carpet as well, which will be nice.  I think I need a new chair, but don’t want to push my luck just yet.

I will most likely have to share the office just like the one I’m in but that’s OK, cause I think it will be some time before that happens.  I like new office furniture.  This will be a great new start to getting a test network up and running and having an eyeball on the server room at the same time.  I’m sure my new office mate will not like to hear the buzzing of servers all the time, but it should only be for a few months at the minimum.  They will just have to get used to it.

Today was our Company Christmas Party.  Yeah I know I should be more excited about it but I’m really not.  Granted it’s the only time of the year where the office actually closes for 2.5 hours and the staff is still in the building.  The party usually starts around 10:30am and it starts off with 3 groups of employees doing 3-5 minute skits in hope of winning some Christmas loot.  After that we had a drawing for 6 door prizes and then the employees presented the owner with his and his wife’s gift.  The drawback this year – we had a problem with one of our web servers that kept our attention till about 11am so I missed the skits this year

After the gifts and door prizes then the feast begins.  It’s a huge potluck where everyone brings in something.  And of course there is LOTS of food since we have close to 80 employees.  Overall it was fun.  I mainly just parked it in my office eating some food and just keeping an eye out on the systems to make sure nothing else went down while the party was going on.

Oh well back to normal work now, it’s been fun.

After being settled into the new office for a few months now, everything seems to be going pretty good.  Still liking the layout and there are only a couple of minor things to really gripe about.  However the lighting in the office is not to be desired, really.  The fluorescent lights are over powering at times.  The only drawback to this lighting and the layout is the corners do not get as much light as the rest of the office.  I’m trying to figure out a solution to this and I might need to check out maxim lighting.  What would really be cool is the under shelf lighting around the office, now that would be cool.  And it would brighten up the whole desk area as well and then the corners would not be that dark.  I’m going to go pitch that to management and try and get this issue resolved!

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Office Makeover Update

Most of the office complete but a few things that are still left.  I guess its been 1 week now since we moved back in.  So far I like it, but I think I would have done a few things different if I had to do it over, that’s for sure.

Here are two pictures:

Scott Left – Jordan Right:

Scott’s Side:

OK so they got to work on the office today.  It’s about 1/2 way done.  They say we should be able to move into it tomorrow.  I will snap some shots of it after we get everything installed and hooked up.

Happy?  Yeah for the most part, somethings I wish were different already, but who am I to complain.

Here you go:

I really like the overhead cabinets and shelves..

The office is about 1/2 packed up now and I have 1 of my 2 computers already in another location for the next 2 days.  One of the guys came in today and said it will take them 1.5 days to get it all done.  If they were not going to paint then it would probably be just one day.

So here are 3 shots.  One from the door, one of Jordan’s area and one of mine.  I will follow up with after shots on Friday.

From the door:

Jordan’s corner:

My Desk:

Wednesday I’m supposed to be getting my office at work re-done.  When I say re-done, it’s actually going to be re-done.

About 1-2 weeks ago the guy (Jordan) who is helping out (Phones and Desktop support while I focus more on servers and back him up) moved into my office due to space issues out on the floor (we just keep hiring people).  So right now it’s a little crowded with 3 full size desks.  Tomorrow we need to start moving things out to get ready for the re-do.

First they are going to slap some paint on the walls just cause it really needs a new coat.  Then they are installing some custom desks and matching shelves and a custom whiteboard.  Yeah I’m pretty excited.  Should give me some more space and for it to be a little better organized.

Tomorrow I will take a picture of the before shot and will take one after they are done.

Yeah…

I got home last night and was looking around the office and boy it’s a mess. I think I really need to get some work done in there. Papers are all over the place and nothing is really filed. Well it’s filed Scott’s way, lol

So like I usually do I was sitting back in my chair pretending to do some work and I was thinking how cool it would be to add some new light fixtures. Maybe it would make it a more dynamic working area?

At work my office has this huge glowing fluorescent light right above my head and it gets tiring having that light beat down on you all day long. So wouldn’t it be nice to come home to a nice home office with ambient lighting? Maybe have a light shine on my Sooners Office gear. I think it would be good.