Well, it's official now, so I'm posting it here. I've been hired as a Web Usability Designer at PeaceHealth here in Bellingham. My last day at WWU will be Friday the 13th(!) this month, and I start at PH the following Monday.

I'm really looking forward to this job. It will be challenging, meaningful and interesting work, and pays really well too. I'll be working with my friend Dawn, the only other usability person at PH right now.

It took me almost exactly one year after graduating from UW to get this job. I'm pretty sure I could have got another sooner if I'd been willing to look outside Bellingham, but we've decided to stay here for the long-term, and this job will certainly help with that goal.

H and the kids are down in Oregon visiting her family for Spring Break. I sure miss them!

The article I co-wrote with Dawn about mashups will be published in the June issue of Searcher. I'm thinking of working on one about online reputation management next.