Office

The setup at the Brampton office:

The IT department had a computer up and running for me on the first day.

My contract has been extended

My initial contract was for six weeks, ending August 8. It’s now been doubled to September 19. Our team is creating a wiki and writing training materials for a technical support group with many varied applications to support.

Work work work

I’m in the last week of my contract. March 31 is the end of their fiscal year, so projects and contracts tend to wind up then, to be continued later, perhaps.

I should be looking for another contract but so far I’m quite busy with this one.

My office space, October 2006

This is my desk at ExtendMedia. They have a beautiful, open-concept office in an historic building with high ceilings and post-and-beam construction. The office is relatively dim, with task-area lighting for everyone. I have a flat-screen monitor and an upright wire file for keeping my work organized.

View out my office window

This is the view as of 2 June 2006. When I started this contract, it was a nice green square with a couple of rows of pine trees. Within a week, the trees were being bulldozed and the whole thing was a construction site. I tell you, the construction fairy is following me around!

Workplace

This is “the office” for this month – an impressive building at Progress & Brimley in the former borough of Scarborough.

Sudden contract

Suddenly I’m working on a short and fairly intense contract to produce timely documentation for a fast-paced contract, so you won’t hear much from me. I even skipped the monthly meeting of my professional society. Luckily, I can sign in from my home office and work remotely.

Status: busy

View out my office window

I seem to be followed around by a construction fairy who strews construction sites in my path wherever I go.

This is the view from my office as of 25 June 2004. You’re looking North from Commerce Valley Road west towards Highway 7, just west of Leslie Street. There’s quite a pleasant field there.

This is the view from my office as of 8 October 2004.

When one is driving, it’s referred to as the “brown carpet treatment.”

End of the week

Home, after a tiring day. Did laundry, worked in a hot office, had a very nice lunch with colleagues (thanks, Huw!), and drove to Hamilton and back.

<– Ivy-covered office at Liberty Village (King & Dufferin Streets) in Toronto

My office space, April 2004

This is my office at Siemens Trango. A standing rack with cascading slots and a make of official-looking labels for file folders help to keep it organized.

THIS POST WAS made later and BACKDATED to the date when the picture was taken.