Well today we got our Washington state drivers’ licenses, and we got our new plates last weekend. That makes us more or less official here.

We still can’t get over how green it is. I was walking through the nature trails this morning to get the mail, and I noticed what looked like a grove of baby pine trees. There were one to two hundred of them, all about waist-high.

pioneer square

We’re also almost totally set up at home. Most of our books are still all boxed up in a closet, but everything else is unpacked. I’m really enjoying having my own office in the apartment. It’s pretty cozy in here with all my tech books, Jill the rat, and a futon, but I really like it.

Alisha on the futon

Last week I got an offer to work at Hypertext Solutions, a small software development shop downtown. They made me a great offer, and the work looks pretty exciting. Mostly I’ve gotten pretty burned out from working at home for over two years now, and I really feel like it would be good to be in an environment with more daily human contact. They seem to be pretty big on pair programming, so that will be a big change.

Last weekend we had Alisha’s parents up here. We got to show them around the area; it was really great to have them around. The photo above is of the building downtown to which we took them where I’m going to be working. It’s in an area called Pioneer Square which seems really nice. (The only reservation I have about it is that it’s in the Buttnick building.) Still, very nice.

my new office

And here’s my home office. You’ll note the crucial map for world domination. One step at a time…