10 years

So this morning, as I was sitting around waiting on the kids to get ready for school, I was pondering lots of things in my imaginary mind. I realized that we have been in Texas for 10 years now. I have to word that carefully, because it wasn't 10 years ago that we moved here - it was 10 years 10 months ago. There was that 10 months that we spent in exile in North Carolina, but I don't like to talk about that.

Cass and I had been living in Huntsville, AL for about 18 months. As part of his job there, he went out to California to attend GDC (Game Developers Conference, which ironically he is at right now). While at GDC back in 2000, he met face-to-face some guys that he had been interacting with on OpenGL message boards. One of the guys, John S. was working at Nvidia and mentioned to Cass that they were opening an office in Austin, TX. Cass had wanted to interview with Nvidia for a while, but he wasn't interested in moving out to San Jose, CA to work for them. But as soon as he heard Austin, TX, he jumped at it.

Right after he got home from GDC, he started interviewing for a job in the Austin office. When he went for face-to-face interviews, it was at the California office. So essentially, he took the job with Nvidia without ever having visited Austin. He came out to start work on 5/10/2000. There were 6 employees in Austin.

So we're here 10 years 10 months later. There was a 16 month stint in Dallas, which is still Texas (but most definitely NOT Austin). And that 10 months mentioned above.

We are Texans now.