Long weekend ahead in South San Francisco

As I expected, one of the agencies I interviewed with on Tuesday offered me the job. As requested, I had submitted an application including my salary requirements and they were checking out my references. I knew an offer was imminent. Unfortunately, they basically offered me what I was making in Dallas. The job is in downtown S.F. I will counter on Monday. There is a $25K gap between what they offered and what I asked for so it could be difficult to negotiate something I'm happy with.

I visited the Google complex yesterday aka Nerd Mecca. Nothing much there. A soccer field and basketball court across the street. The offices were very generic. Apparently, most of silicon valley is just industrial office parks.

I have a phone interview on monday with a big CRM SaaS provider. :) It's a large company and would be great for my resume and probably end up being a long term gig due to the fact that it is such a large company, and would offer good benefits I'm thinking.