California
So, finally I am starting to get caught up with the present.
Mariam and I are here in San Francisco. It took us a week to find a place to stay, so we crashed at Grandma and Grandpa’s out in Concord. But now we have a really nice little apartment to ourselves near Balboa Park station with only about a 30 minute commute on the bus for me to work.
Work has been going well: I am working on a still secret project here at Zynga, though I suppose in the end very few people will ever know about it since it is all backend stuff. I’ve taught myself PHP pretty quickly, though I keep running into a few gotchas here and there (like paths in require statements are relative to the current directory you are executing from instead of where the script is located.. huh). I’m learning a lot and the environment is MUCH different than Intel. The free food is great and this Tuesday I am getting a (much needed) free haircut from the company’s stylist.
Mariam has been staying busy getting us settled in, though I am worried she is getting a bit bored.. We are still looking for stuff for her to do during the summer to stay active.
The last two weekends have been great: On Memorial Day we took a trip down to Santa Cruz with Amy Jo and Charlie. The weather was perfect walking along the ocean and Charlie gave us a little tour of his old stomping grounds. Yesterday Mariam and I walked around downtown, eating good food, looking for a dress and some running shoes for her.
The weather here is great (Mariam thinks it’s cold), which helps a lot. I feel like I am finally starting to catch back up with life (thus taking a couple hours to catch up on blogging), so now I am just looking forward to the rest of this summer in this awesome city with my awesome wife.