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Yesterday was the last day of the first week at Google. It was also the first Friday. As a Noogler that means that you should attend the weekly TGIF meeting and be welcomed by all the others (several hundreds) that … Continue reading →

My butt hurts! But more on that later… So, a couple of minutes before 8 am Monday morning I entered the door to the lobby of Google building 43 on Charleston Road in Mountain View, California. I was not alone … Continue reading →

…is hard! Last Friday I was on a tour around Mountain View with Jane visiting various apartment complexes. Renting an apartment in USA is a bit different from Sweden. The common thing seems to be a complex of 50-200 apartments … Continue reading →

I have now officially started my career as a Yankee. After 8 hours flight to Newark, almost 5 hours at Newark and then 6 hours flight to San Francisco I touched down at San Francisco International Airport. Immigration at Newark … Continue reading →

Today, by using a ridiculous amount of wrap paper and cardboard, three merry men from a moving company has put everything I own into boxes and sent it on its way to California. This blue container will be the home … Continue reading →

Now it is about a week until the adventure begins. Or maybe less than a week. When does it actually start? When I board the plane? When I land in San Francisco? When the moving company knocks on my door? … Continue reading →

I can stop worrying about not getting the visa in time. The good people at the American embassy must have outperformed themselves. Instead of “about a week” it took two days before I had my passport back with the visa … Continue reading →

Yesterday I paid a visit to the American Embassy in Stockholm to apply for a work permit visa to USA. I had been googling a bit to try to find out what would actually happen there but the only information … Continue reading →

It has come to my attention that some people would be interested in me doing a bit of blogging about my soon-to-happen relocation to the big country on the other side of the Atlantic. So here we go.. (Swedish disclaimer: … Continue reading →