The corner office

Joann moved to a new office this week in the corner of the 5th floor with great views of the Milwaukee Art Museum and the lake.  I was able to help her organize the office and get a first view of her new spread this last Sunday.  Let me just say, she now has an incredible office.  It is about the size of our first apartment and the tiny attached bathroom and walk-in safe are interesting additions.  It is paneled in wood and has the expected large desk, conference table, and two chairs for lounging in when you are tired of sitting at all the other spots in the office.  I did find the old safe interesting and would probably hide out in it all day if it was my office - which is probably a good indicator of why I never achieved a corner office (in case you are curious, the safe is hidden behind the big plant that is just in back of Jo and it isn't usable anymore, the locking mechanism was deactivated - yep, I checked).  It is quite an achievement and she can now watch the wings on the Art Museum open and close.

For the rest of the weekend we headed over to Madison to visit with Jo's sister and significant other.  Friday night we went to the Badger hockey game which was quite thrilling with the game coming right down to the last few seconds although the Badger's fell short.  Afterwards we went to the south Union and enjoyed some hot chocolate on a cold night.  We sat and talked for almost an hour solving most of the world's and US problems.  Saturday we headed out for a little shopping and then a delicious lunch at Bluephies (I think that is how it was spelled).  Then we went house/lot viewing as we continue to try to scope out the right place for us to be in Madison.  Later that night our nephew Sean joined us for dinner so we were able to catch up with the latest news in his life in Iowa before we packed the car up and headed for home.

Nothing very noteworthy in the rest of the week as I continued to paint items for our enclosed porch and patching cracks in the interior walls.  The roads and sidewalks remained iced up and with the weather so cold we didn't get out for very many runs opting to work out inside instead.