We decided it was time for a change of atmosphere – as we all often do – so we devoted the last few days to rearranging the office. Not always the easiest of tasks, but always the most rewarding when it's all said and done. Buoys the mind and refreshes the spirit.

All in all, we:

• Tacked up several more shelves, six of which are in this picture. What you see here are a collection of childhood artifacts and funtime miscellany – and, yes, that is a live hand grenade. (Editor's note: No it isn't...unfortunately.)
  
• Freed up nearly 100 square feet of space, which we turned into a gathering/chill/reading nook. If it were music, it would be Post-Lounge. Or Cozycore.
• Peppered the walls with several new artworks – including painter Ricardo Guevara and poster gods Crosshair Design, Burlesque of North America and Guy Burwell. 
• Hung two custom-built whiteboards – cut, framed, painted and then liberally scribbled upon. Its inaugural words were Here be Dragons, christening the surface whereupon unseen lands are yet to be explored. The monsters lying in wait shall be given a choice: be slain without mercy or profess allegiance to the Keane flag.
  
• Innumerable other upgrades, including: a bathroom overhaul, a polyptychal grid of our work (icosikaioctatych?), several new botanical comrades of the Phalaenopsis variety, a maple-topped work surface and the most organized closet ever. Really.