Two weeks in and things are going well

I just wrapped up the second week of the new job and things are going well. I'm pretty much up to speed on current systems and procedures and am starting to get going on things. They are doing a really big Microsoft Office SharePoint Server roll out for the organization and I think I can help out there the soonest. I'm still getting use to the differences in size, though. Also, the office tends to be start-late/run-late kind of office where most of the work happens late into the evening and I've been an early morning person for a while. It seems unusual to get to the office 9am and only 10% of the office is in. I think it's a natural reaction to coordinating things with the Paris HQ since they only overlap Tokyo in the late afternoon.

The commute to work isn't bad. I experimented with a couple of different routes and I picked the one that is a little slower but less crowded. Part of the trip is on the Yurikamome ゆりかもめ line that most people think of as a "toy" train to get to the Odaiba お台場 area. It's a little slow but I can sit the whole time. Door to door, the trip takes about an hour if I hurry, but most of time I sit at Toyosu 豊洲 for coffee and take some time to study Japanese.

The company offers free Japanese lessons so I've started taking a Tuesday & Thursday class at lunch time. My current skill is in between their current classes so I'm taking the higher level one which is really, really, tough.