Long time no blog. My excuse is that I’ve been working at APRA AMCOS editing written guides to their complex licensing arrangements. They call them PEGs – Plain English Guides.
This has been good fun. I’ve not worked in an office for a few years now, so it was like stepping back from gentle retirement to a preceding more hectic pace of life. It’s only been two days a week, however, so I can’t complain!
APRA offices
The office is great – they gave me a new iMac to work on (with Windows) and they are a friendly bunch. The building is an old four-storey one with huge timber beams and pillars inside and a very stylish contemporary makeover. Check out the giant anglepoise lamps in the sitting area and the colour-coded lamps on the walls.
The only drawback has been commuting in by car. They’ve given me a parking space next to the office in Mountain Street, Ultimo, so the car seemed the obvious way. The first couple of times it was quicker than the combined train/walk would be, but then it turned bad! It can be a slow grind in traffic and take an hour to get there by 9am – but getting back home can be done sometimes in 25 minutes.
It’s interesting to be back into the pace of office life. Having meetings and making decisions. Chatting to strangers over the tea-making facilities in the kitchen, watching everyone wander about at lunchtime with their various foods.
