Today is our first day at the new Yahoo building. There was much controversy about who was going to move across the street. Personally, I don’t care. The buildings look nearly identical inside.

Some first impressions:

– Something’s weird with the floor. My monitor is constantly bouncing.
– I have a window cube now, which is nice, but my cube needs to be reconfigured so my back isn’t to the window and I don’t get all the glare on my monitor.
– My commute is about 30 seconds shorter. Woo hoo!
– I got a full-sized parking spot very close to the building. That never happened at the old building.
– My cell phone appears to get better reception here.
– The conference room computers look new, which mean they may actually work. Wow.
– The conference rooms on the first floor are named after Gilligan’s Island castaways: “Ginger, Maryann, SS Minnow, etc’.
– The second floor rooms are “in” names like “competent”, “appropriate” and even “conitent”. I’ve got to think of a work arrangement that will avoid sentences like “I’m in ‘compentent’.”
– The third floor rooms are named after remote places like Siberia, Pluto, and Timbuktu. No, we’re not bitter!
– There are these weird mogul-like things in the courtyard lawn. This is what happens when architects run out of ideas.

This is definitely not going to be a productive day.