Now that I have cats again you can bet I’ll be once again stuffing these entries with pics that have nothing to do with what I’m writing about.
A couple weeks back some friends invited me out to bar trivia. We didn’t do so hot the first round, but we actually won the second, much to our shock. Won a $20 gift card, split four ways.
They’re learning. 
Surveying her domain of destruction. 
It’s been uncharacteristically warm lately so I went on a stroll around the neighborhood on Saturday. Found myself in a very exclusive neighborhood, looking entirely out of place. As I was walking up a hill towards a dead end a couple drove past me, then turned around and drove past in the opposite direction, then parked their car askew so as to block me in. As I headed back towards them they got out of their car and asked, “Hey, you look like you’re looking for something.” Without breaking stride I replied, “Nope, just out for a walk.” “Ah, sorry to be nosy.” “It’s all good, you probably don’t get too many people walking around up here. See ya!” Edged around the car and kept on walking. The wife didn’t look too happy, but I wasn’t looking for a repeat of the Pecan Place incident.
The views up there were amazing. Pics didn’t do it justice. Maybe when y’all are back we can go again and look less suspicious than one bearded dude by himself.
New $1mm houses that just went in across the street. 
Still more under construction. 
Pic doesn’t do it justice but Mount Rainier looks fantastic from this vantage point. 
Ah nostalgia. 
Someone brought an RC boat. 
Those instructions look pretty intimidating. 
This last week I’ve been on an extended trip down to headquarters. These trips tend to be hyper-productive, full of good meetings, so that’s nice. The downside is I also tend to get incredibly stressed about how gosh darned much stuff we have to get done this year.
She didn’t want me to leave. 
This conference room has an honest-to-goodness Rube Goldberg contraption built in. Defunct, unfortunately. 
Allll the parking. We’re incredibly cramped in our Kirkland office.
One fun thing I got to do this trip was tour Google X, the secretive lab where we do self-driving cars and balloon-based Internet, among other projects. The building is a converted mall, so it’s kind of trippy walking around in there. No pics of course, unfortunately.
Regular employees can’t just go in whenever they want; a team member traveling with me used to work there and arranged for one of his old coworkers to have us over for lunch. We had to wear guest badges and everything, so I got to feel what it’s like whenever I take one of you through. And it was funny, although I’ve eaten at countless Google cafes before, wearing the badge and having it be new and exciting made me feel just like a guest again.
Tomorrow I get to go to church at the Stanford singles ward, always a treat. I head back on Tuesday night, then off to Utah Friday night. Can’t wait to see y’all!
I love those cats
They’re the cutest.
Bring them.