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ChamberWorks
August 2005

Special "Fairfield Chamber of Construction" Edition

» Wall to Wall and Wireless
» A Splash of Color, and Dispatches from Thailand

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Wall to Wall and Wireless

It is now Week 5 of the Chamber's extreme makeover. (The story began in last month's ChamberWorks if you're just joining us. Go ahead and read up on it now -- we'll be here when you get back.) It's been pretty uneventful, so let me tell you about last week instead.

Geoffrey James of Ash Creek Enterprises deserves a medal for sheer perseverance. When a job that usually takes an hour turned into a six-hour marathon -- much of it spent on the phone with technicians at Cisco -- Geoff just wouldn't quit. By the time he walked out the door (no doubt to get himself a really stiff drink), our new wireless network was humming right along.

After that impressive performance, the rest of the week had to be something of an anticlimax. We managed to keep ourselves entertained anyway, playing a game of musical rooms with the carpet guys. Pile everything in one room, then pick it all up again to make way for the carpet. Move, carpet. Move, carpet. In the end the desks and computers and plants and people wound up more or less where they're supposed to be, and it actually feels like an office again. (An office still waiting for the painters to arrive, but it's an office just the same.)

Only please don't ask us where we filed that letter you sent us two months ago, because it's probably buried under a pile of boxes in the kitchen.

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A Splash of Color, and Dispatches from Thailand

Patricia's office was the first room to feel a paintbrush (the conference room is being tickled even as I type this). From "Denim Comfort" to "Palermo Rose," these rooms are taking on definite personalities.

Patricia, meanwhile, is missing all of this. While we sit here watching the paint dry, she's running around some jungle in Thailand.

She sent us an email from an internet cafe in Nan (5-day forecast: rain), which was a little hard to read because -- oddly enough -- Thai keyboards are labeled in Thai.

"Roads to Chaing Mai are washed out," she writes, "and the cars (open like trucks) tht were to pick up today, couldn't come to the village and up and down the major4 big hills becuse it was so sli8pperty." There was some other stuff about being up to her ankles in mud, and she says she's looking forward to the white-water rafting part of the trip, which "will be really dangerous because of the downpours of rain every day."

Oh well, we'll fill her in on all the stuff that happened while she was gone.