One Month(ish) Update

So it has been about a month since I moved to the Seattle area and started my new job at Microsoft. Things are going great, I love my job, its everything I expected it to be. I wake up each workday excited to go in and solve another problem, work with my co-workers and help build a great product.

Some highlights up to now:

• Walking into work the the second day and having three desktops and a tablet PC handed over to me, all of which I had to reformat and configure. It turned out to be not so bad.
• Buying a 6 line Cisco VOIP phone for my home line.
• Having a crazy man talk to me for over an hour at a Starbucks. One of the topics being how I am too healthy and I will thereby get arthritis, due to humans evolving to their surroundings. Yeah, that's it.
• Buying a burrito from a truck parked at a gas station per my office mate's recommendation.
• Seeing everyone panic and leave work early at the sight of snow falling. There was no accumulation and a few minutes later it started to rain after which the sun came out.

So far its been great, especially this weekend. Today the weather was amazing, it got up to 76 degrees and it was completely sunny out. A friend and I took this as our chance to take a look around a few of the parks in Seattle and enjoy some outdoor cafe time.

We first headed to Discovery Park, its on the western end of Seattle. It has great views of the Olympic Mountains and the Puget Sound as seen in this picture:

After that, we headed over to Queen Anne and had some coffee at a Tully's while taking advantage of both their outdoor seating and the great weather. After asking around, we found our way to Lookout Park where we were met with this view: