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Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Office moves were made for OCD

Spent today putting together floor plans, sorting cabling and planning the actual move for one of our offices. In short I was basically:
Measuring things - (the windows all seemed to be the same size - but you don't know until you measure each and every one).

Writing lists - (lots of them, for everything. Is it a list if it has one item though?...)

Creating timetables - (you do have to factor in the time for a lift stopping on every floor after all - assuming the damn thing is working).

Creating naming conventions - (OK - so I did take the cop out and have a Misc category, but the logic everywhere else is sound).

Labeling things - (yes it is a kettle, but a kettle on level 4 is not the same as a kettle on level 5).

Counting and grouping - (fair enough, paper clips are paper clips - but 34 lever arch files could be referred to as 'files', but so could 3 lever arch files be called 'files' - needless to say there is an actual and demonstrable difference).
There was also a fair amount of telling people exactly what they would be doing, how and when - which is always nice ;-)

Pleasant way to keep my mind off things elsewhere - home now, and mind is back on said matters.