I just accepted a job offer from Lawrence Livermore National Labs in Livermore, California. I have a tentative start date of July 7. So, In the next 3 months I will: 1. Finish my Master's Degree. 2. Get Married. 3. Start a real job. I'll be living in the real world like an adult or something; weird.

Jess and I are both really excited about moving to California. It will be nice to have a change of scenery and environment. The offer from LLNL is quite good (to such a degree that the HR rep from Applied Signals called and emailed me to suggest I make sure to verify the offer from LLNL because she didn't believe it. Applied Signals made me an offer as well for their Salt Lake office, but their offer was not particularly competitive with LLNL's. This includes considering cost-of-living differences.). I'm sure you're curious what the offer was, but I feel awkward putting it on here, and I kind of feel awkward telling people in general. But, it was more than I had ever anticipated making straight out of school, and I'm happy about that. Considering the general economy right now, I'm really happy about that.

Now we get to work with the relocation office to take advantage of the lovely relocation package so that we can minimize the headache of finding a place to live and then moving into it. We're thinking of finding a place in Mountain House, which is about 25 minutes away over the mountain pass. The reasons being that it's not too far away, and the cost of living drops dramatically over that mountain pass, so we get considerably more bang for our buck for a 25 minute commute. From talking with people from the lab, lots of employees live out that way and many also either ride the bus or carpool to make the commute more tolerable. So we'll see what happens.

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