Urban Home

I have been taking my sweet time in posting (in case you haven't noticed). I'm excited for Spring and warm weather. All of those pictures taken in the winter were making me cold! :) Sadly, it still is cold in the mornings when i catch the bus. So annoying because i want to wear a lighter jacket because it's warmer when i get off work. I either freeze in the morning, or sweat to death on the ride home.

I have shown you a lot of things that i see on my way to and from work but i haven't shown you my urban home. The first picture you saw above shows my bus ride in. This photo was taken a month ago, so it's not quite as cold as it looks in that picture. I just love how the city steams. When it's cold out, i can see everything breathe. Cars, buildings, people, sewers... Some people call it pollution. I guess.

Once i hop off the bus/train, i walk a few blocks to my urban home. In the below picture, it was my lucky day. No one else was on the elevator, so i had an express trip to the 24th floor. The elevator i am in is one bank of three. I live on the 24th floor, which happens to be the last stop for this bank.

Notice there is a 13th floor button. Apparently some people out there still believe buildings downtown do not have a 13th floor button. Something about bad luck. The only caveat i have to this, it's probably not the actual 13th floor. I say this because there isn't a 15th floor button. Did you catch that in the picture above? We have a couple of sub basements as well, but those don't count as floors i guess.



Here i am at work. This is the window at the end of my aisle. The Graves 601 is right in front. Block E is just before it, Target Center roof is just behind it and Target Field is just after that. You can see the curve of the Field's roof. It is still early enough where it is dark out (although now with the time change, it's light in the mornings). Our lovely cubes are seen in the reflection behind me.



I love it when it is sunny out like this. Winter seems to provide those crisp, clear days. I'm not sure how else to describe it. Maybe you can tell by this picture. This is still in the morning. Probably around 10 am.

I will be losing this view this week as our floors are changing for remodeling. The Pres. wasn't impressed with our building's 70's cubes. It doesn't really impress vendors or execs. that visit. Works for me. I'm curious to know how much grossness is growing in the cube walls. We were hoping we would be able to see the season opener before the move, but that is not going to happen. When we move back to our floor, i'll be sitting on another side of the building... facing another building. Yippee...



Here is one last picture to the left of the above picture. The thing about the iPhone, it makes things look far away. All of these views outside the window are closer than appears. I say this because there have been mornings, where i can see into the hotel rooms. There are mornings where people leave their shades open, talk on the phone, while in their underwear. Let that be a lesson to you if you travel for work. Keep the blinds closed until you have more than undies on. You've been warned.