New office in Toowong

We are moving to Brisbane. It is our hope that this will be the last time we move to a new city for at least the next 20 years. Just when I am finally starting to get the tangled mess that is the Canberra road system figured out too.

This past weekend, Mary and I were up in Brisbane. Mary was there to look at houses to rent and I was there with my boss to build desks. Our office space is on High Street in Toowong, conveniently above a Chinese restaurant and an Indian restaurant. And as if the gastronomic gods weren't smiling on me with that little bit of fortune, Gloria Jeans Coffee is just a few blocks away and there are four other coffee shops on the block for me to choose just to spice things up.

The fit-out of the office is pretty low cost but I think it looks great and is quite functional. We built the desks Friday afternoon and Saturday morning and then painted them. Good stuff. Now I just need to finish documenting my building in Kingston and I can move my desk up there and get started on a new project.

I should also add that I won't be the only one in the office. The Northrop Structural section will occupy the left side of the office (Peter Ryan, and myself will be doing structures and Vlad will do drafting for us. We will also have another draftsman coming in part time)
and on the right side will be two Northrop Corporate people and two BCA building certifiers and then up front will be our office manager. I am happy that there will be enough people in the office to bring in birthday cake every few months.

After the painting was done, we still had a few hours before our flight back to Canberra, so we drove out to Bribie island to get some fish and chips. I could get used to this.