Moving Down the Road
For any of you reading this from somewhere in our area, the ESD is moving. Friday the 28th was our last day in Burien. Between furniture installation and moving our our hundreds of bright yellow plastic tubs o’ stuff, we operate without offices for the next two weeks. We open for business in our new Renton office on November 14th.
Of course, this being the 21st century, it doesn’t matter much. Our email server has been moved and is running, and our new voicemail system is set up and functional. (I can call in and have it read email back to me over the phone, and it sends the voicemails right into my email - how cool is that! Yeah, yeah, you Blackberry and Treo people can just stop feeling smug. This is still new for a lot of us, ok?). With broadband at home and free wireless at the local library, most of the people with whom I interact will never know I’m working from somewhere other than an office.
I really don’t like moving, though. I hate the packing and unpacking, and it takes forever to get everything sorted out properly at the other end. Of course, I also lived just five minutes from the Burien office, and now I’ll have to drive another six miles to get to work. (Oh, the pain!)
But there are certainly some advantages, too. The new building is completely remodeled, our training facility will be state-of-the-art (well, except for the three-year-old laptops we use), and I’ll have a real office with a door and a window. It may be small, but when I start doing podcasting and video blogs, that door will come in handy!
Besides, as I carried out the last boxes of office stuff to bring home, I turned back to the old building and here’s what I saw:
Seemed like a good sign to me. I think everything will turn out just fine.