On May 16, 2005, I took possession of my first office space. Sure I'd been in offices for years, and executed a number of office moves for my employers, but this was the first office for the new business I was starting alongside a trio of lieutenants. Even with salvaged furniture from one of my pals in the disaster reclamation business, it was a big step up from the coffeeshops and purloined conference rooms we'd been using for our first couple months.

Those original three musketeers are gone, although much of the team we built over the next year remains. We've worked for free and for pay and at times for reasons we couldn't even articulate.

From the beginning, things were spartan -- even when we graduated from coffee tables to Ikea desks and wall clocks, creating space for as many as 25 people.

Over the last four years, these walls have seen a lot. They've seen, by my estimate, about fifty employees at various times. They were home to our first TV interview. They've seen many of the area's local musicians (along with several attendant noise complaints). They saw the first video interview of Tom Leppert's mayoral campaign. They've been privvy to plans, schemes, laughter, tears, parties and a couple all-out brawls. We've worked and slept here. We've been under four different corporate entities. I've easily had some both the best and the darkest days of my professional career here.

This weekend, we make our first office move. We're going to bigger space, space that was actually planned for us. It's a big step up from the fire-marshall-daunting shoestrings and bubblegum setup we have now. We're not going completely "Uptown" with this move, but it is certainly a big step towards having a professional, if still immature, company environment. We even have a real conference room. For the first time in years I'll have an office with a door. We'll no longer have to smell burning hair from the plastic surgeon next door. We may even have sufficient electrical outlets for our power-hungry computers and affiliated gizmos.

I'm really psyched about the new space -- It gives us more working room, space for more people and room to grow as we expand towards other cities. But there'll always be something special to me about this first rag-tag office.

We'll be updating contact info as the weekend goes on, but suffice to say that until middle of next week, email is the best way to reach us.