Some fun at work

I've been working a lot lately, but my big project should be over soon. In the meantime, though, there are still plenty of things about work to make me smile. For one, we just expanded into the building next door, and the new workspaces are really lovely!

The new office puts us with a nice square view of Martin Place.

And, of high importance is the new claw machine full of candy. It forces us to make at least some effort to get our candy!

Even though I don't sit in this nice new area, I still get my lunch in the new kitchen. Too fun!

Last week I also made a trip over to the Sydney Google offices. Atlassian women were invited for a Women in Tech meetup. I didn't see too much of the office, but the part I did see was cool and unique like you'd expect. There were fun unicycles and jumping shoes for getting to the other Google buildings. The kitchen was full of candy jars and lots of fresh juice and food. It also looked like a pretty cool place to spend a workday!

And my favorite update from work is Bosco, the newest office dog. He was just 12 weeks old on his first office visit, and now we are BFFs!

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Happy birthday to the T!

My work schedule has been pretty full-on, so I've not had much time for adventuring lately. But I did take a nice weekend to fully celebrate T's birthday last weekend.

Of course, there wasn't much that Toby wanted to do on his big day. But I had other ideas, surprise! So we compromised and I kicked off his birthday weekend with some fun Friday evening activities, and then the rest of the weekend was left to his choosing.

No successful activity happens on a hungry stomach, so we started Friday evening with a walk down to Walsh Bay for dinner. I really like Walsh Bay because it's mainly restored wharves and warehouses from Sydney's early port days. It's also pretty quiet, even though there are a few fun restaurants scattered here and there.

Our dinner destination was El Phoenician, a Lebanese restaurant. I'd picked it out for Toby's dinner, mainly because there were plenty of small plates involving dips. He agreed it was a good choice!

We had a leisurely dinner, but we were also on a schedule: our tour at the Sydney Observatory started at 8:15 sharp! This was my other choice activity to kick off T's b-day, but I didn't tell him about it until we were at dinner. I think of all the activity scenarios he'd been worrying about in his mind, he was pretty happy with the observatory tour plan!

I didn't get too many pictures because of course it was dark. But we had a pretty good time! Toby volunteered to turn the crank to close the telescope silo, which was pretty cool. All the other parts of the observatory have been mechanized, like the rotation of the telescope and the silo itself. But one bit was still by hand and that was very cool! We got to look at a lot of stars, star systems, and the rings of Saturn. All very fun and interesting!

The rest of the birthday weekend was spent playing games and eating birthday cake.

Some loved ones made the birthday even more special by sending a few care packages our way.

I am not 100% sure, but I think T had a pretty good b-day weekend!

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