It was far from a coincidence that Kyle Quindlen and I, friends from back in Colosse, ended up living in Estacado at the same time.
When he and I were in college, we took a trip to Estacado with Hubert, Clint, and others and had the time of our lives. We loved it there. We swore that if we couldn’t find work in Colosse (the Colossean economy was in the crapper at the time) that we’d just pick up and move out there. He ended up transferring to the University of Estacado in Almeida while Clancy and I lived in nearby Santomas and I worked in Almeida. We had lunch regularly. In addition to Clancy’s career aspirations and my really liking the area, he was one of the reasons that we relocated to that state.
The fact that I moved from Estacado, where Kyle was living, to Cascadia, where his sister Kelly had moved to, is a bit more coincidental. Cascadia was something of an inevitability if Clancy could get the work contract and when she did it was “off we go!” Kelly had moved up a bit earlier for her boyfriend, which is a post in and of itself.
Even so, the Zaulem Sound area is big and attracts a lot of IT people, which Kelly and I both are. So it’s not a huge surprise that we ended up in the same town.
Nor is it a big surprise that we both ended up working for Mindstorm. It’s one of the major employers of the area, after all.
It is a bit of a surprise that we actually work for the same contracting company since she didn’t hook me up with them.
A bit more of a surprise that she works in the same division of the company that I do considering that we work in very different areas of technology.
The surprise is that not only does she live in the same area that I do (a couple thousand miles from where we were raised), contracting through the same placement agency in the same division… but that in a campus of 25,000 in a city with millions of people in a nation of hundreds of millions, she works on the same floor of the same building that I do.