I didn't announce it, but I recently left AWH to join the Great Migrations team as a new partner! It's a really exciting opportunity for me, and it should prove interesting.
Because we're a small product team, we all work from our homes. That's great, except for a few things:
- When I worked from home while at AWH, I sat at the kitchen table and worked from my laptop. This was because of the next few reasons.
- My office is a wreck. Some of Sarah's stuff is in here, there's clutter everywhere.
- My desk is the same roll-away desk I got as a junior in college (over a decade ago).
- My monitor is an old 17" (19"?) CRT.
- It's dark, I'm hungry, and there's nobody to laugh at my various witty remarks.
The good news is that most of that is easily remedied!
A little over a week ago, Sarah and I borrowed my mother-in-law's van and went to IKEA with a couple of friends. While there, we got some furniture for my son's new bedroom, and we picked up a desk for me.
Once we got home, I started clearing out the office. I moved everything out that I needed to, filling another room and blocking the front door. Sarah took some of her stuff upstairs, and I assembled the desk.
The desk that I got is the Galant series corner desk with an extension on each end. I experienced this particular desk while I was at AWH, and for IKEA, it's pretty sturdy. There's a good brace underneath the table top that holds any weight pretty well, and the legs are pretty solid. Assembly wasn't too bad. I had it together in an hour or so.
In addition to the desk, I ordered a couple of monitors from Newegg.com. They had the Hannspree 23" LCDs on sale for $140/each with free shipping. I ordered three: two for me; one for Sarah.
After getting everything set up, I continued to clean the office and organize it. Here's a picture of the office:
Here's a picture of my officemate:
Here in the home office, I have a strict "I'm going to kill my officemates eventually" policy. Your days are numbered my friend...
I need to hang some office policies around the room too. I was thinking about printing and posting the office sexual harassment policy, which is pretty strict:
Sexual Harassment Policy:
Strictly NO sexual harassment!
Not sure where to put it though...
Anyway, that takes care of the first few things on the list, but what about #5? I end up talking to myself by the end of the day. It's going to require some effort on my part and on the part of my friends. I need to get out and meet up with people for lunch, code and coffee, drinks, whatever. I need to get out.
So, if you haven't seen me for a while, let me know and we can get together! I'll be happy to get out of the office and see some friendly faces.
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