07:00 Alarm goes off. Grr…I haven’t been awake at this time in awhile.07:20 Finally jump in shower. Brr..it’s colder at this time.08:00 Eat breakfast, give Misha his antibiotics08:17 Finally walk out the door to begin my commute08:32 Crap–this traffic sucks. I haven’t even reached the bridge.08:44 Oh good, it’s picking up–moving faster.08:52 Finally arrive on campus–where’s the building again?08:59 Finally find the NEO (New Employee Orientation)–check in, get my packet.09:30 Orientation begins.15:37 First portion of orientation ends–I decide to jump on the shuttle for the optional portion of visiting the Company Store and Visitor Center16:30 Get back on shuttle to go back to orientation building–meet another Amazonian that also recently…

Sent at 3:41pm—Hi all, Today is my last day at Amazon—it’s been a real pleasure working with all of you. If you can, please join me & Eric Franklin for a drink at Barca (1510 11th Ave) tomorrow evening, May 17th, at 6pm–would love to see you. Keep in touch! ~ Audrey

This week, Microsoft unveiled Windows Mobile 5.0. Check out a presentation deck here for a more indepth view. How exciting since this is exactly the technology that I’ll be working on when I join Microsoft. There’s so much for me to read and digest and learn–that’s what I’m most psyched about. I know soo little about the Windows platform when it comes to PocketPCs and Smartphones since I’ve been a Palm user for the last 6 years. Although I love my current phone, with it being nearly 3 years old, there are a lot of shortcomings…and reading this deck makes me realize how many features I lack currently. I can’t…

After spending 1 day back in Seattle doing random errands and re-packing, I’m now in Vegas visiting my parents who decided to get a vacation home here. Within a few hours of arriving, I was already at a casino with the family and gambling at the blackjack table. Ha ha–you win some, you lose some. I think overall, I’ve lost $20 by now. Last minute, we decided to check out a new Cirque du Soleil show called Zumanity at the New York New York Hotel & Casino. I absolutely love Cirque du Soleil and have already seen a bunch of their shows: Alegria, Mystere, O, Saltimbanco…..there are 3 here in…

It´s our last day and Sri & I just checked out of the hotel. We don´t leave til 2pm for the airport since our flight is in the late afternoon…so we have 3 more hours to sit by the pool, get sunburnt (me), drink piña coladas and soak in the salty fresh air of the ocean. Not much new to report. We went into Playa del Carmen for dinner last night and ate at the Blue Lobster, each of us ordering the biggest lobster tail we´ve ever eaten. This was the first ever lobster tail that I couldn´t finish…it was huge! What a sad waste for such a good, expensive…

Wow. Sri and I decided to live it up and check out Cancún last night since it was, afterall, Cinco de Mayo…and why not party it up in the party capital of Mexico? We first had dinner at this wonderful restaurant called The Plantation House, which specializied in Caribbean style cooking. I once again had a lobster tail which was delicious and Sri had a blackened grouper. Well satisfied after dinner, we wandered over to the clubbing area down the street in the Zona Hotelera to find chaos. It´s like Las Vegas on steroids and all over the place. There were bars and discos EVERYWHERE and people were spilling out…

Man, first day and I´m already sunburnt and have enormous bug bites on my right leg, perhaps from unknown creatures of the night that jumped into bed. I swear I put sunblock all over myself but I still got burnt. Ugh. Storm clouds are hovering over the resort today, so fortunately I don´t have to face the sun again. Last night, Sri and I checked out the town of Playa del Carmen, which is only about 10-15 minutes away. We hopped on a local public autobús, which costs only $1/person and strolled around 5th Avenue, which is this crazy long street full of vendors, shops and restaurants. We ended up…

Well, Sri and I arrived in Cancún safely this evening, after being in flight for nearly 7 hours. We fortunately avoided the crowd of time-share selling folks and got a decently priced taxi over to our hotel, the Mayan Palace, located in the Riviera Maya. We were lucky and got upgraded to the Grand Mayan, which is the fancier part of this complex (and when I mean complex, I mean complex—we needed transportation from the lobby to our room)…and WOW! Sri and I are in complete awe of how beautiful this place is (and keep in mind, this is a time share of my parents which we lucked out on).…

Reading Eugene’s recent post about his Shure E3c earphones reminded to post about some new headphones that my brother bought me for Christmas—the Etymotic 6i Isolater Earphones. These earphones have made a huge difference in noise isolation. It almost completely blocks out outside noise. I often wear them to work out at the gym and I don’t have to compete with the cheesy dance music piping through the gym’s speakers (so that I can listen to my own cheesy dance music..heh heh). The sound is so isolated that my own heartbeat is quite clear through these headphones. I’ve been very impressed by these headphones so far and am eager to…