Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: Office

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Not that it matters, but I took this a few days before I retired. Secretary of State Building, State Secondary Complex, near Dimondale, Michigan.

Me, in my office, on my fiftieth birthday in 1999. Things to note: * The computer books, mostly on SQL and MSAccess. I wasn't an IT guy, but my job had geeky tendencies. * Not sure what the critter behind my shoulder was, nor how it got there. Perhaps a birthday joke. * Yes, I had a window office. In fact, I had this specific cubicle twice. * All that paper. My office was always like that. * All those pins in the pinboard. * The Coke bottles. More often they were RC bottles. * The mouse pad, atop a stack of papers and a clipboard, with a photo of Bay Furnace. Bay Furnace is near Christmas in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Really. * The Baseball America Great Ballparks calendar. * The 1999 STATS Minor League Scouting Notebook by John Sickels, on the desktop. John's books, and his email newsletters, were essential background material for my Fans Guide to the Midwest League project. * Schedules for the Michigan Battle Cats and Lansing Lugnuts on the partition in front of the window. Not sure who took the photo, but it was taken with my Nikon N90s. Photo scan by Seattle Filmworks.

I was on campus for an event called Inside Macalester, a function for a small group of Mac alumni. Over breakfast on Friday we heard presentations from several senior Mac officials. Ms Lee's the school's VP for Student Affairs. 116/365

Horner Mill, Eaton Rapids. An Albert Kahn design. Photo taken 5/27/2015.

At Grand Portage National Monument, on Lake Superior in extreme northern Minnesota.

Dropped in on a retirement party today for a long-time colleague. Bill's a good guy; he'll be missed.

Murray D. Van Wagoner Building in the Michigan Capitol Complex, Lansing, Michigan. The Department of Transportation--usually called MDOT--lives here.

The area in the front of the picture is known as "The Analyst Area," "The Sixpack," or (its name under a different administration) "Program Development." That wide space serves as a hallway, occasionally as a conference room, and as a break area. Down the hall to the rear are the bosses.... Our secretary, Clarice, is more-or-less visible in her cubby at the far end of the hall. My nameplate's visible, at the door to my cubby, above the Michigan magnets.

This is Jan. She's worked where I work for fifty years. We threw her a party today. Quite the celebration, I tell y'.