Monday, August 08, 2005

Sunnyvale, CA – We Made it Alive!!!

Our apartment is totally sweet – 1100 square feet, with vaulted ceilings and a sunroom, and we don’t know what to do with all this space! City-to-City delivered our crates on time, and without breaking a single thing. We *love* northern California so far, since the weather has been 70 degrees and sunny with a slight breeze, every single day, and there’s a super-nifty mini-golf course down the street.

Working at Google is really very similar to what it might be like to work at Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory, except for big, slightly dorky kids. (Hopefully we don't get outsourced to Oompa-Loompas for leaking trade secrets, haha.) We've got all sorts of neat candy and snacks and smoothies and meals, plus endless free tech toys. For example, they give every new hire two 24" Dell flatscreen monitors and we're allowed to request just about anything we want (Blackberry, laptops, PDAs, etc.).

So in conclusion, the two of us are really happy here, and we’re playing a lot of tennis. The one thing we really miss about Boston is that there are no Red Sox fans here…but we hope y’all can visit us sometime! We’re actively working on our wedding plans, and will post more info about that soon too!


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