Coinciding with my eight year anniversary at Pixar, I found out today I’m moving offices soon, to another building. Neither my current office nor my new one is in the main Pixar complex. This will be my sixth office move. This is probably about average for employees of my tenure - as productions wrap up, a lot of people get moved around at the same time. On the other hand, I’m also probably above average in terms of number of different buildings (six for six!) and zipcodes (three) that I’ve worked in.

When I moved into my current office a year ago, I discovered it was one of the few that had a steel I-beam smack in the middle of the back wall. This didn’t bother me very much, I was happy to have an office and not a cube. Then I realised the beam width was almost exactly the width of a 48-stud light grey Lego baseplate. Score! 75 2×16 plates, 25 4×12 plates, and 100 2×2 by 2×2 brackets later (all ordered from bricklink), along with a bunch of Scotch mounting squares, and all the unique minifigs in the collection had display shelving less than two feet away from where I sit, happily hidden by the I-beam sides from casual passerby. (Which I have to admit isn’t really a big concern here, no public tours in this or the next building.)