Moving day
posted by Linda on 12.06.07 @ 1:23 pm
After twelve years here at 2707 NE Blakeley, Omni is moving offices—we’ve finally outgrown our beloved pet-detritus-encrusted building and we’re moving on up to the . . . uh, let’s consult a map for a second here . . . well, not to the east side, more like a southwesternly direction. And it’s not really a deluxe apartment in the sky, more like a nice roomy new office building on the ground, so—yeah, just forget the whole thing where I was going to try and work in The Jeffersons theme song to this blog entry.
It’s been a slightly terrifying effort to get everything packed up and either recycled or readied for moving; remember this thrilling list of Omni Attic Contents? (No? You say you don’t read every single non-useful, non-product related blog entry we post? FINE.) I think we all received about thirty more emails just like that, except even longer, with even weirder items on the list (for instance, copying and pasting directly from a few messages: birthday candles, For Lease sign, “Goblin Green” spray paint, full can of baby powder). Big props to Molly and Trish, our office wranglers who have managed to coordinate all of the moving-related chaos without threatening to kill any employees.
(YET.)
(Also, I feel compelled to tell you that one of the older, more embarrassing games discovered in our dusty game archive shelves is called “Panty Raider”. Game description: you play as Nelson, an innocent bystander forced to help aliens in their search for supermodels in underwear.)
Tomorrow is our official move day, and we’ll be settling into our new location starting next week. If you experience any delays in hearing back from us in the next few days, this is why. In theory we should be up and running again Monday morning, but that assumes no networking SNAFUs, employees wandering around looking for their office, or horrifying discovery that the new building is actually built on an ancient Indian burial ground. WAIT OMNI DO NOT GO INTO THE LIGHT.
Farewell Blakeley building, you have served us well. Sorry about all the cat hair we’re leaving behind.
So where are you moving to, exactly?
By Andrew on 12.06.07 4:57 pm
any pic of the new office? how about a link to google maps?
By cesar on 12.06.07 7:27 pm
Our new address is:
3257 16th Avenue West
Seattle, WA 98119-1760
By Ken Case on 12.06.07 7:33 pm
Ken beat me to editing the location by one minute!
By Lizard on 12.06.07 7:47 pm
Sadly, my Google Maps edit doesn’t seem to have fixed the location it shows when I search for our new address on my iPhone. (But maybe it just takes a little while to propagate between Google’s servers…)
By Ken Case on 12.06.07 7:55 pm
welcome to the neighborhood.
By eugene on 12.07.07 1:09 am
I never understood why Indians bury their dead in places where the laws of physics are suspended. Don’t they want their ancestors to rest in peace?
-jcr
By John C. Randolph on 12.08.07 2:40 pm
As an Apple Consultant (ACN) I’m bummed you’re moving! Living next door in Blakeley Commons I was able to brag to colleagues that I had the coolest concentration of Apple karma around: OminGroup next door, WIll Shipley and Delicious Library in Zokas and the U Village Apple Store just a block away. I sensed a great disturbance in our local Apple Universe when I saw moving trucks out front. Good Luck in Interbay. See ya at Macworld!
—Steve
MacS.O.S.
By Steve on 12.08.07 3:31 pm
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By cesar on 12.09.07 5:13 pm
Looks like you get your own railroad siding, where the trains can leave boxcars of fresh electrons and pick up bales of cat hair or whatever.
By Michael Burton on 12.10.07 8:59 am
We’re in the new building. We have an internet connection, but I think some internal servers are still waking up, so we’re not getting many bugs fixed or emails answered today. But we are having lots of fun!
By lizard on 12.10.07 1:52 pm
You have a cat in your office?
By Alysson on 12.10.07 6:26 pm
wow that’s dangerously close to red mill, you guys are going to be in a perpetual food coma - that is the best burger in seattle!
http://www.redmillburgers.com/
By stefan on 12.10.07 8:19 pm
What a great way to start my morning, reading your funny move entry. Hope the move went smoothly and you too enjoy a smile-filled and productive morning. : )
By Lisette on 12.11.07 7:07 am
Congrats on the new digs.
By Tony Nodine on 12.11.07 5:06 pm
photos of the new office?
By cesar on 12.11.07 5:11 pm
Is there a Red Mill near there? You’re definitely much closer to Hattie’s Hat, King’s Hardware, Bad Albert’s and all the other fine burgers of Ballard Avenue (plus Mike’s Chili). Many more good happy hour options too, I’m guessing (between Ballard, Freelard, Fremont, and Queen Anne).
By j-lon on 12.11.07 11:55 pm