Hi everybody,

Finally it is summer and very hot. I'm sitting on the terrace in the garden typing this mail. Wee little stinky bugs keep falling from the trees trying to get into the notebook and become famous as computer bugs.

Gerhard II and family have been back from the Netherlands for a year and a half and are busy finishing their house and garden across the street. On the photo you see the 3 (!) children Gerhard II, Isabella and Gerhard III riding their newest toy, an oldtimer tractor. GII still is in his job as Director Finance & Controlling at Lafarge (cement, etc.) in Vienna, but at the moment on a seminar in France; Ingrid and the children are on holiday in the Netherlands.

We had an IBM-Gerhards meeting two weeks ago in Vienna, but it was just Schaefer and me, and spouses of course. I tried hard for over a week, but couldn't get hold of Snappy the Finger. He is probably somewhere in his mountains.

Hope to see you all at a re-union in Austria one of these days.

GerhardN