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Old 07-09-2009, 02:59 PM
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Office Window view

I like working away from the city. Best I could hope for there is a brick wall (if I got a window!). (sorry mobile phone camera resolution.)
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Old 07-09-2009, 03:05 PM
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poor plants, suffering yet another cold and cloudy depression of a day, as has been the case for the last 100 days straight. I'm surprised they are still green.
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Old 07-09-2009, 03:12 PM
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Nice view Erick.

This is the best I get. Our office is underground, zero windows.
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Old 07-09-2009, 03:55 PM
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Erick,

Your on the wrong campus. I have a garden bed outside my window with a gum providing shade. Across the walkway is another garden with bottlebrushes in flower. To the left is a lawn with trees and bushes and in the background is the escarpement. The walkway leads to nursing and health sciences. Some of the sights one sees there knock about 20 years off an old blokes age . I'll post some pictures if I can (of the gardens only ).
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Old 07-09-2009, 04:17 PM
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PS just looked up and it is black outside. It's about to peece down .
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Old 07-09-2009, 05:17 PM
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If I had a job on your campus, then I'd be packing up and moving to Gerringong which I have been wanting to do for some years.
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Old 07-09-2009, 05:23 PM
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Nice view Erick.

This is the best I get. Our office is underground, zero windows.
I do not believe that this is a healthy work evironment. One should be able to see outdoors, preferably get some fresh air too.

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Old 07-09-2009, 05:43 PM
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....The walkway leads to nursing and health sciences. Some of the sights one sees there knock about 20 years off an old blokes age . I'll post some pictures if I can (of the gardens only ).
It's the bird life in the gardens, isn't it

It's all them Great Tits (now, before you go and get all upset, here's a Great Tit....see below).
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Old 07-09-2009, 05:49 PM
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And...here's a Blue Tit...
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Old 07-09-2009, 06:20 PM
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Nice view Erick.

This is the best I get. Our office is underground, zero windows.
Good to see a screen shot of the hard work you do in your office with no windows
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Old 07-09-2009, 07:04 PM
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This is the prison I shall be retiring from in 130 sleeps!

Actually it's not so bad, my own little empire, listen to music all day, browse IIS when I like.

The Corea bush outside the window gets visits from Eastern Spinebills and Honey Eaters, and, as I work in a small country hospital, all my other visitors are nurses!

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Old 07-09-2009, 07:30 PM
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Hey Roger, what's that on your PC? Is it Windows? If so, you DO have windows in your office

As for my office, my view consists of the main runway of Canberra Airport
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Old 07-09-2009, 07:35 PM
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Sorry, I have the best office window above the planet

http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/office...sydharbour.jpg
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Old 07-09-2009, 08:11 PM
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This is the prison I shall be retiring from in 130 sleeps!
Chris Get back to work, your country needs you, you can't retire till your seventy
I hope you have a great retirement when it comes
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Old 07-09-2009, 08:32 PM
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Sorry, I have the best office window above the planet

http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/office...sydharbour.jpg
That's just NOT fair Peter, not fair at all. Wow!

Carl - those are SUPER bird images. I'd love to do more bird photography (feathered type) but alas, I don't have the patience or knowledge to get close enough...

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Old 07-09-2009, 08:43 PM
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ah i work outside every 1 to 10 days i change locations great stuff on the ocean beside rivers its great
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Old 08-09-2009, 12:06 AM
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PS just looked up and it is black outside. It's about to peece down .
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Old 08-09-2009, 09:43 AM
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If I had a job on your campus, then I'd be packing up and moving to Gerringong which I have been wanting to do for some years.
If you haven't see Gerringong recently you'd be in for a surprise. The housing down that way is spreading like a plague of locusts. There is a new suburb every few months.
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Old 08-09-2009, 09:45 AM
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If you haven't see Gerringong recently you'd be in for a surprise. The housing down that way is spreading like a plague of locusts. There is a new suburb every few months.
Yep, I'm part of that - I have a block in the new Estate that's itching for a McMansion to be built on it!
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Old 08-09-2009, 09:47 AM
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Sorry, I have the best office window above the planet

http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/office...sydharbour.jpg
OK, that looks nice but I remember from another thread you commenting negatively on being over the Pacific at 3.30am with still 6 hours to Sydney. And I don't know what it like from your perspective but airports would be just about my least-favourite place on the planet.
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