The Finnish summer has not yet shown her best. It is raining and the temperature varies from near freezing to quite comfortable. This week does not matter, because I am still almost literally attached to the laptop. Next week will see some serious thoughts about the future.

I am currently visiting the US for the first time in some fifteen years. Minnesota is nice and the almost subtropical warmth and humidity is quite relaxing. New York is still to come. The Mississippi riverbanks and the river itself provided quite a sight. I almost started to build a raft. Good times these are.

You cannot miss the Finns. I was walking to a Brooks Brothers store in Minneapolis and met my old teacher by chance. It is a small world.