Many of you already know, but I haven't made the official announcement.

Camille wraps up her residency at the end of June. She has accepted an offer for a Fellowship in the Great State of Texas. Austin, to be exact. We move down at the end of June.

I don't have any work lined up down there, but I've been polishing up my resume. I've added two years of XHTML experience (six months programming, ten months as a quality assurance person, and 6 or so as the supervisor of the programming team) for whatever that is worth. It was worth more than answering phones, I'm sure.

The job market in Austin is always tough, but it will probably be better than it had been in Idaho Falls and Pocatello, and all things considered I've done phenomenally well up here.

If I don't find work pretty early on money is going to be tight. The job unfortunately doesn't pay much more than she's getting up here, but Austin is going to cost considerably more. On the other hand, we both look forward to there being no state income tax.

We will actually be older than the average Austin resident, but that'll be the least of the culture shock we're going to get moving from Mormon Idaho to hippie Austin.

I'm already scoping out music shows to go to. She still hasn't seen Phil Pritchett play and Austin's no-smoking bar scene will help considerably. I also have a number of friends in the Austin-San Marcos area (and, of course, three hours away in Houston). Dad says that he will visit every week there is a UT home game.

We're both quite excited. OU graduate Camille says that the town is too infected with burnt orange, but that she could get to like it.