NHK

Are you appearing in Tokyo Eye?

I have had the girl-next-door living next to me. ^^

Also your usage of the word "Canteen" was interesting. To me a canteen is a 1 quart container I'd have attached to my pistol belt that is filled with water ^^; But as wikipedia shows your usage is more common to UK English than American. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canteen

Love the differences English has between countries ^^

Interesting teaser...almost looks like some thriller or possibly some dark superhero XD

Am , so excited for Danny's Small Screen Preview .

The studio must be really really big , It almost has everything there O.O except Figures and ero Mangas

Oh wow, the storage area for props sure is messy, heh they need to sort it all out. Maybe it is already and it just looks all over the place. All the sets are amazing, from looking at it not as a TV show, they don't look like what they do on television.
The place really is like their own city, with a book store, pharmacy and wow that lunch area is huge! The international floor, rows and rows of people working away. This place looks somewhat more organized than at the workshops they have and storage.
One question, how was the lunch there?
Hoho, Danny stars in a commercial, I wonder what you're pitching.

Wow. I hope I can see your awesome NHK video of you at the upcoming CGM Night next week. :)

I'm not really fond into NHK TV as most of their programs are quite boring and sometimes there are few of the staff members come to my house to collect some money from which I don't intend to give. ^^;;

Hiroshi Abe!
That's the one actor I recognize from the poster.

Next door obachan here.

Guy, why are you so fly?

Ah... NHK. Our cable once had that and I sometimes watch it whenever there is nothing good on the other channels. Too bad our cable removed it T_T

"Hope this chap wakes up before the wood gets a slicing."
yes and if his wood gets sliced off, he will surely cry.
yuk yuk yuk.
anyway real excited about your coming CM. ^^

Is Tokyo Cooney as funny in person as he is in his videos?

is the person in the 23rd photo jon stewert from the daily show?.........or am i just mistaken?

Pretty interesting to see the guts of a studio like that. I'd be pretty tempted to grab some props and run around playing in all of the empty sets.

Danny- the term "girl next door" was created by Hugh Hefner in the 1950's to describe the Playboy Playmates that looked so hot, but literally was a girl in someone's hometown. Back then everything was much simpler.

NHK has almost everything, they should make a hotel or some place for those working there to stay over ^^;
Waiting to see your new CM!

Man NHK is sure huge, and the sets are so detailed made ^^" Now I really miss the days working in the broadcast centre and tv station, it was a fun and eyes opened experience.

I've had the girl next door once before but she was directly across the street from me and every time I'd leave for school she would leave at the same time and the same goes for coming back from school most days. Pretty interesting I wonder what commercial your in though looking forward to it!

Angels and Demons is a fantastic book!! At least ten times better than the Da Vinci Code, in my humble opinion...

The NHK studio looks rather insane. Maybe someday I'll get to take a tour. Yeah. Right...

Like the tour of the NHK studios! Good "espionage" work!

I'm going to take a guess and presume you're taking about your "A Week in Tokyo" photos in that teaser... Including SAFs with real world scenery of course.

Bottom left corner man: Um, Tony Blair?

I was always curious about how would a TV station look "behind the scenes", the pic you made were great, the special effects room was amazing! lol.

When I go to Japan, I will look for this Hachico Bus to ride on! so kawaiii!

And I also think that the "angels and demosn" book is muuuch better than the Da Vinci code :) you must read it before watching the movie!!

Wow NHK is like s small town - only lacking the healthcare materials. ^^"

This is the first time I saw a studio from the inside.. Well, virtually at least. Also, the ion cannon control room uses Windows XP!

Looking forward to the CM~

Never had the girld next door lol. Seems very erm cheesy tv story line to happen to many people. Looking forward to the advert!

those houses set look like a BIG BIG version of the nedoroid toy house set lol ^^;

oh Danny is on TV again =D

What a great experience you had ^_^

All I could think of whilst reading this was NHK ni youkoso.
Can't wait to see the CM.
Planetes was a really good anime. I liked it because I especially like space adventures. It dealt with some pretty good topics and I enjoyed it.

"NHK have their own pharmacy in the building too. They seem to have everything so people don't actually need to leave ^^;"

It's a conspiracy!

They take care of all your needs so you will work for them 24/7! =O

Do they have childcare in NHK?

Should be a busy place to have the need for these services under one roof.

Wow, that looked amazing. I've been to Warner Brothers studios before which is very similar, it sure is creepy though.

Interesting array of photos! :D

The wig room scary.. Just kidding! Haha! Making wigs looks kinda challenging.

I also like your computer/figure set-up~!

You went to the NHK studio and didnt see Domo-kun?!

Is he no longer popular over there or something? I went to the NHK museum on my last visit to tokyo, and aside from a few books in the gift shop, he was nowhere to be seen!!

Looks pretty impressive there though. Most japanese chat/ game show sets are usually really gaudy and bright compared to UK ones - seems strange seeing them with the lights off!

Must have been heaps of fun to be on set and backstage. I want to eventually get into the field of film and TV.

I've never seen the inside of a TV studio before. Looks quite interesting.

Woah... The NHK!
Did the lady posed for you in image ID#25809?
Like their spontanenity. Its like a conditioned reflex for jap girls to pose for the camera.
Hehe...

Looks like you had fun there.

Hey Danny, it's all about your white balance. It looks like you're shooting at around 3200K which indeed does give shots a bluish/greenish tone. I normally shoot in RAW and W/B to auto to overcome this since i can always re-correct the shot in software.

In #25801, it looks like white flourescent lighting in that area but your camera seems to be shooting at 'Tungsten'. Are you using Auto W/B or maybe some other selection?

That NHK building looks pretty creepy for some reason!:o
Girl-next-door? Who cares when you have grandpas-and-grandmas next door!^^

Wow, it's a small independent world. I wonder how many people actually live there ^^ It's probably easy to get lost there. Do they have signs leading to some exit?...

Can't wait for the commercial.

So that's where they make all those Edo period dramas.

NHK ni youkoso~!

Never had that girl-next-door either. All my neighbors had boys who were my age, which was great for me because all we did after school was play videogames or have watergun fights in our backyards.

Can't wait to see the CM, although its too bad you aren't in stormtrooper gear, because it looks pretty serious from that screencap.

danny: about the 'green' color problem on your picture,

if your camera has a custom WB(white balance) function which i think it should since its a pro-consumer.

set the white balance on something that you know its white(like the white board on the background) and take the pic, it should turn out better.

Yup! Currently have a female neighbor and currently spending lots of time with her.
As for the article, all i can say is that NHK seems to be a mini utopia for having those stuff inside it. Would sure love to have a chance in a life time to visit their grand place.

Thats a great set of pictures. Getting the idea to expand to live media on the air from the adventure there yet Danny? New show, talking figurines interviewing Dollfies about clothes styles and up and coming articles to equip. Thats a show done with small microphones for voice actors to carry on conversations. Would consist of 3 sets of duplicate items so camera can switch views as Figmas are motioned into the next scene for seamless video switching where it all looks live. Just one idea, all yours.

Cool.

Welcome to the NHK is my favourite anime series!

An entire city in a building...not bad...not too sure about it being too health for the employees...

Angels and Demons > Da Vinci Code! :D

nice to see you got out safely ^^

I went to do a special NHK tour back 9months? ago i think it was june last year.
its really a maze lol, we had a guide and we weren't all on the right path some of the times

we were taken there by one of the International department newscasters, and cause we were a bunch of foreign students sent from UofTokyo, they thought it'll be good for us to see their stuff in many other languages. went into that newsroom and saw a live broadcast go on. Its great cause the newscaster didn't have proper pants on ^^

Ate at the shokudou, and saw some groups of elementary schoolkids being lead in^^, maybe for a shoot or something

and while intruding on the studio for last year's taiga drama Atsuhime, accidentally blocked the way for Ms Miyazaki Aoi from getting past ^^

very priveledged to be able to go there. Didn't have a tv while in tokyo so no fees for me =)

Danny, did your lunch delicious?
It's special lunch or similar with the canteen.. I really want to have a lunch in that canteen.. Usually office canteen don't have any decent taste of foods. (at least it happen in my country)

When I was growing up my parents were the next youngest people in the village where we lived, so no girl next door... Maybe a granny next door *shudder* :S

Oh, and Angels and Demons? Awesome. Really!

So this is how the shooting studio look like inside.

There's a lot of people lining up in the canteen~~~

Wow, look like NHK station have all the neccesity stuffs in their building, the people working there no need to waste time to travel to other place to buy anythings~~~

What an evil teaser, make us more crurious & eager to know NAO~~~~

good luck danny can't wait for the vid

A long line on the canteen, I see there are lots people taking their lunch. It's good to pack yourself a lunch, it'll probably take a long time if did you fall in line.

Pretty sure, I'm harem on where I reside, not a single girl better to say they're many, I usually stay on dorms if I have classes. The good thing here is that I'm the only guy on that dorm.

looks so amazing to be in such a huge studio. wonder if people get lost there...

heh, that canteen just looks like average school cafeteria, lots of seats and long lines.
Huge studio is huge ;)

I got to visit 2 of the local TV stations growing up i Green Bay,Wi. It is quite an experience,you would never believe what it takes to produce a show without seeing for yourself.

Tokyo Clooney is quite funny also, I subscribe to his V-blog. Danny you have so much going on, how do you find time to unwind? Looking at that picture of the ion cannon control room, the guy at the last desk looked like he was catching some winks lol!!! mabey just checking inside of eyelid. Don't want to let Lord Vader catch you sleeping on the job! "Oh no every one at battle stations. Prepare to Fire." Great job Danny as usual, can't wait to see CM.

Don't have the girl next door living next to me house. Am interested in the vid!

If the camera white balance isn't enough you need a Fluorescent Filter Lens for you LX3. The Filter Lens will block out the green light. This site here, http://www.camerafilters.com/pages/fl.aspx, has some basic info and a few sample pictures on the three different types of FL filters FL-W (Warm/White light Fluorescent), FL-D (Daylight Type Fluorescent)and FL-B (Daylight film using Warm/White Light Fluorescent, probably N/A for digital cameras).

Anyhow, I bought a PL, FL, UV (lens protector) kit for my Panasonic DMC-FZ28 and the FL does indeed work when I take a close up picture of a object directly under a Fluosecent desk lamp.

Sadly I've never had the girl next door but then growing up the nearest house to mine was a mile and a half away. If a girl had been living there it wasn't exactly next door. I have a crackhead in the apartment above, does that count for anything.

It's interesting to see how a large TV station such as NHK is like inside with a book store and a canteen there as well. Thanks for the photos.

Went to NHK on a trip, of course, we didn't get that much insider info but we were able to sneak in a few places and take some pictures of places that were off limits to cameras ^^

Nice pictures!

Ah. The tour of the sets was very interesting (:
Would love to be part of the entertainment industry!

Was your CM done in a container set too?
The building backdrop thingy looked very real.

Passed by the NHK building as I walked from Shibuya to Omotesando via Yoyogi Park, but never really knew what's inside, so thanks for the interesting photos, Danny.

Watching too much Star Wars means I'm still stuck thinking why has Obi-Wan abandoned the Jedi Code and became a Catholic Priest in Angels & Demons. ^^

I really liked Angels & Demons, maybe a little more than Da Vinci Code. Great read. I think I've read all the other Dan Browns too, doesn't get boring.

I actually found Angels and Demons a better book to read, partly because Da Vinci Code was so hyped up.

Danny... it's been a while! And this article is just awesome! I want to see a tv program lead by you!

as for what http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3554/3470831310_eb4c0b3272_o.jpg are in your 'Not sure what these are' picture: Those are wheel chocks for rolling set pieces... so they stay where they put them.

=l I'm guessing no one greeted you with a NHK ni youkoso? o: is this...the beginning of DC TV? XD

I think the greenish cast from those lights is because the lights are Mercury Vapor or some sort of high intensity discharge lamps. They flicker really fast, unlike the constant intensity of an incandescent, so the white balance of the camera can't really figure out what is going on..

Danny Choo: Japanese soap star?
Maybe you'll get a ponytail wig...

I had a nice girl across the street before, but since I was in elementary school all we did was play board games at her house. :P

Mr.x? and the otaku league of heroes maybe? Never had a cute girl next door but still hoping maybe one day ^^

I'm looking forward to the CM in which you appear.　そのコマーシャル楽しみ！

I can't believe I'm the 2nd person to talk about Planetes in this thread! I scanned over your comment and I was like wuuuuuuuuuuuuut
How could you not finish such an epic anime? Just look at that opening! epic! Definitely one of the top anime series due to it's really strong character driven story, solid visuals, and satisfying ending. Come on, how many anime series have a good satisfying ending that ties up most loose ends, AFTER an already outstanding story? Please tell me, as I'd want to see.

Looks like a really interesting day seeing all those studios from a behind the camera viewpoint, as well as all the mechanics behind the filming, sets, props,...

Great outfit and pose for Mirai-chan, love how the she's holding the bra that way. ^^
(Actually noticed that right away... does that make me perverted or keen eyed?)

Whoa awesome tour Danny. I'm interested to find out what you're up to!

Also...

http://www.dannychoo.com/adp/eng/1697/NHK.html#image25821

That image is priceless.

Six more days to wait for the post. Six more days of plain vanilla...

Here in China I had countless hot girls living next door. On my floor alone I could count 10 girls who will blow away half of the idols featured on dannychoo.com

Same goes for my current next door neighbour and a few more down the hall. Not sure if they will let me film them even I ask.

I may do a film outside my building and see if I can catch someone. I may post it later.

"As good as DaVinci Code?"

To me - even better :3

I was working on TV studio for quite a while. But all I know is that every light has it's own color temperature value in Kelvins ^^; Taking shots with DSLR really requires some manual fiddling with WB. Those pro-level videocams can do auto WB pretty fast and accurate though.
ps: Kevin is looking soo tired, looks like he's been working a lot lately.

Planetes is amaizing... have to re-watch it sometime. For some reason it warmed my heart as only few animes have achieved.

Currently a girl is living right next to my room now. Just a wall in between us. Not considered lucky or anything. She's just a friend of mine that I know of. And she was the only one I knew before I left Brunei to study here in the UK.

Regarding about this post, to think that I finally get to see NHK again. It's been a while since I last watched the channel. Though, I used to watch Pop Jam and some other music events that was aired on it.

And yes, Demon and Angels is a good book ^^ I enjoyed reading it!

Hi Danny! There is many things interesting to me in this post:

- I never heard before Hinokio but as a scifi fan, I appreciate the trailer.

- The poster with the gorgeous Yuka-chan is about "shokuiku" (I know you know it :P). As a Japan-food lover, I was translating all about shokuiku and I want to adapt his policies to my region (Mexico and Latin America). If there is any person interested in this, visit (english) http://www.maff.go.jp/e/topics/pdf/shokuiku.pdf or my translation to spanish (still incomplete) http://www.bentomexico.com

- And about "Angels and Demons", I like it more than "The DaVinci Code" except for one thing (I didnt want to spoiler it now).

- And as an homage to your "Tokio Street Walks" I start a "Mexico City photo walks", please see it http://www.azteca7.com.mx

Excuse my english, I am not a native speaker (soy mas de hablar español, amigo!)

I appreciate many of your thoughts about life. Cheers!

Haha, a mini city.
Looks like an awesome place!

"NHK have their own pharmacy in the building too. They seem to have everything so people don't actually need to leave ^^;"

The phrase Nihon Hikkikomoro Kyoukai suddenly seemed much, much funnier =3

NHK has a beautiful structure! I hope someday I can work there!!!

Danny, any chance you could help me with contacts there? =)

I love these articles!!

I really wanna see Hinokio. てゆうかゆうかってそんなにでかかったっけ？

My neighbors are mostly the kindly old folks...

You have good experience to be able to going over NHK....and to take that much photos.

This was one of the most interesting posts for me yet - aiming to be in film/TV myself, so seeing all these sets and getting a look "behind-the-scenes" is right up my alley. So far, it looks like I'll be staying in Toronto, but I've been seriously considering heading back to Hong Kong once I'm done my degree. Tokyo isn't all that far from my sights either.

Girl next door...funny thing, that. I had a crush on this girl back in elementary school in Hong Kong. Imagine my surprise when she *showed up at my door* one day with her mother. Turns out she was just the next apartment building over, a rarity considering we went to a semi-prestigious Catholic school that collected students from all over.

She was going on vacation, so I was asked to take notes and collect assignments. The fact that I was the top academic student at the time probably helped, too. She returned the favour later when I missed a month of class for family issues.

Unfortunately, that was as far as it ever got with her. ^^; Too much of a wimp at the time to even become friends with her.

Seeing that Raiders of The Lost Ark trailer makes me feel old. I saw Raiders for the first time as preview with a forgettable Roger Moore movie(The Wild Geese) as second billing. Loved the ending with the warehouse. "Our top people are on it."

Hey Danny, your picture in the commercial looks like something from a movie where you are in a tall dark building planning something...can't wait to see your next videos!

DC.com just gets better and popular, how far will it go O_O? Can't wait to find out what it is about :D

The NHK? But you're not hikikomori...

Demons and Angels is a very good book, I liked it better then the latter.

NHK~ so lucky. I want to tour their TV studios.
I've only been to Fuji TV and seen a bit of where visitors can go. Very fun building to visit though.

I love self sufficient buildings like that. I wonder if California has one I can visit, just so I can pretend that is Japan.

The studio is so cool!
Wonders about the commercial, too!
Maybe I'm the only one who find NHK amusing as it's the only Japanese channel I can get here... ^_^;;

http://www.dannychoo.com/adp/eng/1697/NHK.html#image25808 <--- Not Martin Short is it?

Anyhoot, interesting tour of NHK. Looks so damn big. It's almost like a small college because of the cafeteria, the pharmacy and many departments. And it seems like I have penchant of noticing anyone named "Megumi" ^^;

thx for sharing, the studios seem to be huge. we can imagine the "dead silent" scene. huhu, just noticed that I got the same notebook from google n_n

Bottom left corner man: Xavier Ocampo I think. i also think your partner Hector must know him.

Feel free to contact me if you want to know anything else ^_^

Love the Hachiko bus. <3

NHK makes me think of the same name light novel + comic + anime NHK he youkoso

I think Angel and Demon is better than Da Vinci Code...

I think the management in NHK wanted to make their facilities accessible to their employees and visitors & at the same time earn some business too. If you can access to the facilities nearby, you tend not to waste time traveling elsewhere to get stuffs you need.

"Angels and Demons" have not reach my shores yet. 15 May, I think. I will buy the novel and read it first before watching it. I have experience the same scenario with "The Da Vinci Code". The book is better that the film. A lot of good stuffs in the book are missing from the movie. What I feel is that the original contents are the best seller to which the movie tried to emulate to succeed.

d@@b

Yes, I had the girl next door living next to me, now she's living with me. I married her LOL!
If only my workplace had all that amenities.

"""In one of the studios. From left to right:-
-Claytonian: Youtuber and blogger.
-Danny Choo: office cleaner and SAFS box folder.
-Kevin Cooney: Comedian, Actor and Vlogger.
-Anna Kunnecke: Actress, TV announcer and mother."""

Only an office cleaner and box folder?! Lolz, none the less, looks fun!

is that one guy Mr. Cooney? :D

Wow, lots of stuff on site at NHK. Most big companies are getting that way these days. The Microsoft campus in Redmond already had everything (cafeterias, fitness center, dry cleaning, etc.) but recently a minimall opened on campus. Now there's a full service drug store, pub with beer, bank, and shops. Really never have to leave the area!

Ahhh the NHK studio looks amazing. :D I've only been to the KPBS studio in San Diego, which is a pin compared to NHK.

late ^^; there was a "boy next door" in my neighbourhood in my teens, I thought he looked cool (LOL) tried to make friends with him one summer holiday ^^; embarrassing desu lol!

just thinking...that pharmacy probably has a pill or elixir for every ailment that the casual worker could invent/catch while at work. I can see the conversation now:
'boss, I have a headache and can no longer concentrate. Can I...?' said worker
'...have leave to go to the pharmacy? Yes, you certainly can. But come right back!' replied boss-man

the pharmacy? a curse or a blessing?
you can forget going home early...ever again.

Ah, nice nice, I get to see the behind the scenes thing ^^

DaVinci Code good movie, but it was very fast paced. I like the book. Angels & Demons was my first book from Dan Brown, the cover caught my eye and I really liked it so I brought it "hurhur". Its a good book, its Robert Langdon, a prequel to DaVinci if memory serves me right.

There a third installment in this series set within 12 hours with Langdon again. New book is called "The Lost Symbol", Can't wait, will get and read it.

Danny--
Politically, hang onto the NHK thing.
Your photos are so far beyond the videos...Love your camera.
Work on the white balance thing - Listen to Simom PCW.

The dude in the bottom left corner looks a bit like actor Alan Rickman, best to know to most as Snape in the Harry Potter flicks...

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000614/

I think "small city" fits the description of the NHK site pretty nicely. XDDD

^ goodness my sentences are terrible... you would think English was my second language! :)

I have to say this has been one of the most personally interesting posts on here! I'm fascinated with the whole self-contained world inside of NHK HQ. It's incredibly cool to see the prop rooms and the construction facilities! It'd be awesome to get lost in there....

My first job was at an amusement park, which is also a contained area with numerous in-house amenities. In the off hours I used to love wandering around the back areas, finding weird stuff like empty roller-coaster cars out in the woods and the dressing rooms for the walk-around cartoon characters. We also happened to call the employee lounge and dining area a "canteen", by the way.

So that's what it looks like in the NHK studio, not to mention its own cafeteria and pharmacy... nice.

Speaking of studios, only TV station I've visited is CTV Montreal back in the late 80s (around '89).

Clay seems like he'd be really fun to hang out with. Is the commercial perhaps for the new otaku tourism thing they've been touting for the past month or so?

seems like an interesting studio

NHK is the only japanese channel that by paid tv.. broadcast here. unfortunately no anime.. only news about japan and world. ^^""

Theirs a pimp down the corner, dose that count?

I'm pretty sure your gonna be a portal for gaijin publicity, hope it's not too late to save you from the NHK conspiracy! C'mon return to the light side Danny!

It very enjoys seeing the CM!!!!!!

Beautiful girl next door are a legend i'm sure. I don't know why i keep hoping for a gorgeous girl sitting next to me every single time i take the plane or the train, it *NEVER* happens....

how big is exactly nhk hq? form what i can see you don't have to go home if your're working there. almost everything is there.would really love to go to japan 1 day. but still far away from reaching that goal.

I realllllly want to go to a Karaoke place..................

Ive seen planetes long time ago... I still have good memories of it... ^^
I think it would be really cool if here in argentina all the "internet Everywhere" worked out... now I can barely take my notebook out 'cos its dangerous...

da vinci code?
didnt really float my boat and the book only sorta tickled my pickle

meh- i doubt ima watch angels and demons...
they should have got the dood who played qui gon (liam neeson) instead of tom hanks
tom is cool and all, but i just dont think he fits the bill lol

Do you manually white balance your camera before you take photos Danny ? or did you use presets (daylight, tungsten etc.) on the cam!? sometimes it works to just take a pic of something white like a sheet of paper, fill the whole frame with it in the current lighting and set that as white but maybe the lighting needs those special white balance charts for their studiocams.

so um, how would one get into this field, which features dream chances such as this?

Hachiko bus is 100 yen, and stops right behind my apartment building. It's one of the best planned bus routes there is I think, or at least the Daikanayama-Shibuya one is. Stops every that's useful, Kuyakusho, restaurants, my doctor's clinic, it's ace. Oooo, I am bus geek. I took it to get to my Seijinshiki in January.

I mean, yay NHK.

Yeah it's really interesting looking/reading this article because I might end up working in a studio similar to this in the future (i'm studying video production, soon to be film) so its a nice little insight.

Aha, I figured out what this was, totally by accident too! Too bad no one in Japan will be able to watch you (at least not through the intended means).

It's quite interesting to see this studio, not only in contrast to American studios, but also in terms of large-scale (NHK) vs. small-scale (Mirai) media and their mediums.

see all the photo, i wonder did NHK had their own hotel?

dannyさんの出演はNHKのITホワイトボックス？
昨日TVでやっていてウェブの基本みたいなのをやっていて参考になりました。
http://nakagawaichiro.com/2009/05/08/itホワイトボックス/
でもtokyoCGMnightだと違う・・・。

nhk is like a city in a building

it's nice to see the dark side of the television

That studio is amazing. Man, I'd love to work in a place like that.

The girls in the video are worth checking..hahahahha... never been to the studio before I can't have my comparison here in our place and in japan

God..Hi, Danny! I don´t post often ...even tought I did some years ago ..not much time now!
But, It is nice that you are ok and that you are doing fine!
I was always curious about NHK, thanks for exterminating the curiosity out of my mind!
see ya! ^o^/

Downloading Hinokio NAO!

Hmm.. I was hoping your dolifie daughters would hold up a sign saying "Welcome back". In your 'returned to the office" picture.