Three Pillows

Scandinavians have an excellent command of the English language. In particular, my coworkers are able to convey very complex ideas and concepts very well in English. That is why today, when I reviewed my manager's presentation, I was surprised that he would refer to three software development concepts as, "The Three Pillows". Even when I showed him the slide and asked him about it, he started to explain to me that it was a term that they used in the company. Then he stopped short and admitted that it was probably a spelling mistake for pillar. What's a pillow, my other coworker asked.

I feel a lot closer to my coworkers now, having had them over at my house for the party. Surprisingly enough, the Microsoft guests (all Danish) outlasted all the Mærsk guests and stayed the latest. Michael played some Bryan Adams on the guitar (great voice) even though he's a drummer. Lars got became rather lax in his spatial perceptions and knocked over a total of five glasses. There was a feeling of hygge, which apparently is not translatable into English. If you want to know more, ask Betty, she's done some research on it. :)

The party as I mentioned had a murder mystery component. Kendrick was the murderer and was discovered by one of our Spanish guests. Many hilarious false accusations were made. We actually only really knew about 75% of the guests. The rest were invited by guests, and were for the most part really enjoyable people. Anyways, we were so tired on Sunday that we crashed around 6:30pm. 12 hours of sweet slumber!

I'm taking the train home now.. it'll take some getting used to . No matter, tomorrow we may get a chance to go kite surfing!! Blow, bloooow, thou summer wind.