Yesterday was the first day in the nice new office for the CEO. Most of us here agree that the new place is pretty nice in the big scheme of things, but since we’re all now in cubicles of various shapes and sizes instead of our previous random haunts at the other place it’s gonna take a little getting used to. The new space is at SW 4th and Market and takes up a full floor of our building; yours truly is located on the far NW corner of the office. I have a decent view down SW 4th, with St. Mary’s academy on my left and the park in front of Keller Auditorium on my right. And I can just barely see the towers on the Hawthorne bridge if I get close to the window. By close I mean stand on a chair and shove my face into the window. On my tippy-toes. After putting two phonebooks under my feet.

All in all a pretty nice building in a pretty nice neighborhood, but I ask myself: where’s the Old Town charm? Yeah I have a better parking space and a better view, but I couldn’t find anything decent for lunch today, and the street people outside our place were far less interesting than what I was used to. And I seriously miss my regular meth dealer. And my crack guy; he was an ace. Good people those two. They’ll be tough to replace.