Posted 3:47 PM by Floyd

My referral logs show that The Declarer has had another visitor from Europe -- from skanova.com, which is a Swedish ISP. I don't need to Google Swedish to know hej; in the early days of Aspect Development (my employer for seven of the last ten years), our most important customer was Ericsson.

Two of Aspect's vice presidents went to Stockholm in August. They said that it was amazingly beautiful, that the women were more than amazingly beautiful, and that everyone spoke English. They would ask shopkeepers or people on the street if they spoke English, and the Swedes would answer, a little surprised, "of course." After awhile they stopped asking.

My manager Brian got to visit Sweden twice -- in November and February. Brian was a native Californian. "Do you think I'll need a coat?", he asked me. Despite the cold, despite sunrise at 10 a.m. and sunset at 2, and despite having his truck broken into and a window smashed while he was gone, Brian also enjoyed Stockholm.