I had our personal digital camera at work in order to take some covert photos of wayward citizens building decks without a permit. Thing is, this particular citizen is the former Director of Public Works for the City, the position that heads the building and zoning department. This guy of all people should know better. Must be a reason he got fired…
Anyway, I though I’d take some photos of my office. I work downtown Rochelle in the Public Works building that houses the Director of Public Works, the city engineer, the city planner, the building department and some support staff. We’re right across the street from City Hall, which is very nice because we are sort of out of sight, out of mind of the city leaders and avoid much of the bureaucracy that is so prevalant in city government. Only we just remodeled this building and moved in January 2005 and we’re already out of room. Going to have to think up something with more space very quickly.
My office is at the very end of the building. I actually have to walk through the other inspector’s office to reach mine. But hopefully, our next digs will have enough room for us to stretch from time to time.
Oh how I long for my own office. I have been a nomad for so long now and this will continue for the next 21/2 years, moving into a temporary office every 6 months. This time I didn’t even have a table.
The last two places I’ve worked don’t allow cameras on site, so you’ll just have to pretend I posted a picture of a really exciting, roomy, light, airy office. Erm… yeah…
Our building was just outfitted with a fake brick veneer front to try to mimick the Municipal Building front across the street. (We still have some work to do on the sides of the building). Take a look at the brick coursing in the photo. We have no idea how this happened. How do you mess up a glued on brick veneer siding? If it was a real brick job, the ‘crossroads’ would be a definite no-no.
Doesn’t the fact that the columns don’t actually reach the ground grate across every part of your being to drive you into a frenzy of pot-plant-facilitated hiding games?
You noticed! Actually, there is a good reason for it. The sidewalk will rise and fall with the change of seasons or weather whereas the decor on the front of the building will not. If the fake columns rested on the sidewalk (or pavement in the U.K., right?), the first frost heave would tear the siding off the building.
bruce, being from the lower penninsula of mi after seeing that poster, i wonderd what was so cool about a natives perspective, then saw the yellow part of it
It works better if the top line says “Upper Michigan” as in the photo below (we were off to a soccer tournament that day). When we would travel Troll-land, we would often see advertisements or billboards with the state of Michigan showing only the lower peninsula. The trolls don’t want to claim us, eh? So the whole subject of the poster is that da U.P. is more important that the lower peninsula.
My Dad developed the poster or slide on my bulletin board to use in classes he taught when he knew he had someone from the lower peninsula in the class.
What part of Michigan are you from?
Edit: The map says you’re from Benton Harbor.
