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Hal & Judy Jennings |
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- About us:
- We started as a family over 41 years ago in Madison, Wisconsin. But IBM wasn't hiring in Madison, and they had openings in Omaha, Nebraska. The move to Omaha wasn't too far from our families. Our daughter, Kari, was born 3 years after we moved here.
- Five years later the commute for extended family functions increased when we departed for Boca Raton, Florida. IBM was developing a micro computer, and we got in at the very beginning of what became the IBM Personal Computer. Our son, Kevin, was born in Boca.
- The opportunity to spend two years in Tokyo, Japan was too much to resist. With two kids in school and neither of us having ventured out of North America before this, every day was an adventure. We didn't own a car but stayed in shape with long walks and bicycle rides and got to more distant destinations via various forms of public transportation.
- Hong Kong seemed easy after Tokyo. Most everyone spoke English. A car was required, and learning to drive on the left wasn't as hard as remembering on which side of the steering column the directional signals were located. The 23rd floor of a high-rise was home for two and a half years. Perched on the side of a mountain, overlooking the ocean, provided spectacular views daily. Traveling around Asia taught us not only about the geography and culture of Asian countries, but it helped us see the United States much more clearly as well.
- Austin, Texas seemed like just another foreign country. And yet, in other ways, Austin seems more like "home" than any place we have lived since leaving Madison. People speak something that sounds a lot like English. And they're friendly, too (usually). We ain't ever leavin'. In fact, in mid-2002 we moved into a new, smaller home a little closer to work to cut down on the commute.
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