I spent the week before this one down in Mountain View for Noogler training. I'm completely assimilated now. I think I (finally) made the right choice about what job I should be doing.
Training started on Tuesday and I got to Mountain View on Saturday, so I went down to Monterey to hang out with Steve and Stacy. We had dinner in San Jose with Rose (Usa) and Dean and little Talia who is the 2nd cutest baby I've ever seen. On Sunday Steve & I rode up to Watsonville and watched part of a really low-key local 'cross race then rode back to some town whose name I've now forgotten (but I think it was flush with artichokes) and met Stacy at a Mexican restaurant which was definitely flush with very good margaritas. Monday, Steve & I rode down to 17-mile drive and rode along the beach, near pelicans and sea otters and breaking surf and so on. It's not too shabby there. Also I got to see Steve's office which has a view of those sea otters and pelicans and sea lions and so on. It's totally amazing.
The Google training was great. I'm gonna try not to pull a Mark Jen so I won't talk too much about it, but I will say that Google invests a bunch of time up-front on their engineering staff. There is definitely a more academic feel to Google, which I'm really enjoying so far.
Here are some random pictures. The one of my bicycle is kinda funny in the cross-section of Google culture it gives: there's my bike on the front, with the D. Boon sticker courtesy of Steve. Behind it is a pimped out beach cruiser, which is a free Google loaner bike. Then behind a bunch of mediocre mountain bikes is a bike with way more cred than mine could ever hope to have: a fixie complete with tags from a few alleycat races stuck in the spokes. I never saw that at Microsoft!
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