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Last month, I shared with my readers pictures of my office space, with its cockpit-like layout featuring a multiple-monitor setup that continues to draw attention and comments from co-workers and visitors.

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But mine is nothing compare to this guy’s cocoon…

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It’s enough to give someone penis office envy. You can see more shots of this guy’s office here.

About a month ago, I talked about the move to my new office at work and shared some photos showing my old office before the move, my new office before the move and my new office after the move. Well, when I took those photos, my office was completely finished. Well, now it is and I wanted to share more photos of my office space (especially for my brother in Houston who hasn’t had the opportunity to come by and see it).

Now, I must tell you that although it may not look particularly spectacular to many people, my office has become quite a tourist attraction within my workplace. Not only is the newly renovated office space a novelty, and not only do I get a lot of foot traffic based on the location of my office at the end of a very long hallway (which I talked about in that last post), but my office set up seems to have captured a great deal of interest…

A look into my office from the hallway (with our new “fancy” temporary signage that we made using artwork printed on black foam core, which some people thought looked really nice and mistakenly thought was our new permanent signage, which is actually delayed). Continued

Welcome to my new office! Over the weekend, as you may know from my previous posts, our department and several other people moved to our new offices on the newly renovated floor. I’m movin’ on up — from the 8th floor to the 11th floor, the highest I’ve ever worked!

The new offices are definitely a major improvement over our previous offices, with nicer carpet, warmer wall colors and classier (and more updated) decór. All day yesterday, people from the other floors were touring the new office space, admiring the new look.

To appreciate the improvement, I have to take you back to my old office, with it’s gray walls and worn out, stained carpet…

This is the old office. Nice, huh? (Detect the sarcasm?) I know it looks a lot junkier than my new office, but part of that was that I didn’t have much drawer space to store stuff, so it ended up on top of my desk, and once the piles start, they grow a life of their own. I also had several boxes being stored in my office that didn’t make the move to my new office, which helps a lot with how much cleaner the new office looks. Here’s another view of my old office Continued

Another Monday morning and another “I’ve got nothin’” post. Here it is Monday morning, the first day after a weekend break and I feel more worn out this morning than I did going into the weekend. It was a busy, busy weekend. Friday was spent packing up for our big move to our new offices (moving from one floor to a newly renovated floor three floors up). Saturday was spent largely at the mall, as described in my last post. Yesterday was spent setting my new office back up so that I could get started back on projects first thing this morning.

I had intended to post pictures of my old office and my new office, but I just didn’t get around to it. Perhaps this evening or tomorrow morning. I had also intended to write more about my new iPhone 3G and/or the iPhone 2.0 firmware upgrade with its new features, but I just haven’t dedicated the time to write. It’s not that I have writer’s block, but rather energy block — I’m just flat spent.

So, sorry for wasting your time with this blog post, but that’s all I got this morning.

I’m coming up blank about anything specific to write this morning. I’m tired of reading, talking and writing about anything related to the campaign (even though I posted something last night related  to it); there’s a ton of stuff I could share, including some really good stuff, but I’m pretty darn sure that most of my six or seven readers are tired of hearing about it too. At the same time, we’re kind of in a dead zone with entertainment, so I don’t have much to share there.

Meanwhile, I’ve been unintentionally obsessing over Apple’s upcoming release of the iPhone 3G, new iPhone 2.0 software update that introduces many new features and the new MobileMe service — a significant upgrade of the .Mac (dot Mac) service. The software and service upgrades alone are exciting, introducting a feature that’s most important to me that I used to have with my Blackberry — Push technology that instantly delivers emails (rather than waiting for the periodic checking of email) — and also offering instant, continual updates of calendar items and contact information to all my devices, from my computer at work to my computer to my constantly mobile iPhone. And the iPhone 3G has the faster 3G data speeds which I’ve been pining for since I got my current iPhone and should make internet usage less frustrating. Plus, the new iPhone 3G is even cooler than my already cool current iPhone, which one of my daughters will inherit once I get my hands on the new 3G. As of this post, there’s a little more than 24 hours until the official launch; Karla and I will likely test the waters about lunchtime to see if we can get into the Apple Store at Penn Square Mall, but if the line is too long, we’ll just wait.

If that wasn’t enough to occupy my mind, we’re getting ready to move offices at work. Our department plus another department and several others will be moving from the 8th floor to the 11th floor in newly renovated offices. My new office furniture is already sitting in my new office (and it’s cool and I’ll share pictures of the whole experience this weekend or Monday morning). Now I have to concentrate on packing up stuff in my current office while still trying to get several projects finished. It’ll probably be a long day tomorrow getting everything ready while working around my workload; I have to have everything done before I leave Friday evening because the movers get started first thing Saturday morning. Sunday, my entourage (Karla, Sarah and Ashley) and I will go up to my office to set everything up and put everything in its place so that I can get started back on my project list first thing Monday morning. It’ll be a long and busy weekend!

Okay, so it turns I really did have something to write about. Lucky you! 

(The following was sent to me by my boss this morning.)

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Lesson 1:

A man is getting into the shower just as his wife is finishing up her shower, when the doorbell rings. The wife quickly wraps herself in a towel and runs downstairs.

When she opens the door, there stands Bob, the next-door neighbor. Before she says a word, Bob says, “I’ll give you $800 to drop that towel”. After thinking for a moment, the woman drops her towel and stands naked in front of Bob, after a few seconds, Bob hands her $800 and leaves.

The woman wraps back up in the towel and goes back upstairs. When she gets to the bathroom, her husband asks, “Who was that”?

“It was Bob the next door neighbor”, she replies.

“Great”, the husband says, “did he say anything about the $800 he owes me”?

• Moral of the story:
  If you share critical information pertaining to credit and risk with your shareholders in time, you may be in a position to prevent avoidable exposure.

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Leadership Square, where I work, in Downtown Oklahoma City.
(© Brad Neese)