Preliminaries: Boulder to Plano to Stockholm

Dick and Janis moved to the Boulder area (Lafayette) in 1983. We've made many friends and raised three kids since driving in from Los Angeles in a little green Dodge Colt with our 1 year old son, Lloyd.

In 1994 Dick went to work for the Wireless Infrastructure Division Qualcomm which eventually was sold to Ericsson. In the year 2000, Dick took a 6 month assignment in Stockholm. Janis and the 3 kids joined him for part of that tie (they got to tour Europe a lot while he worked!)

In late 2005, Dick was asked to manage and grow the Plano R&D center for Ericsson on another six month assignment. The six month assignment was extended to 12. Janis took a leave-of-absence from her job and joined Dick for the second six months. The "opportunity" for a permanent re-location to Plano kept popping up. However, the gravitational pull of this opportunity was not strong enough to give up 24 years of friends, Janis' job, our mountain based hobbies, and our kids still living in Colorado. So back to Boulder we trapezed. (BTW, it's a very long drive from Plano to Boulder!).

The situation in the Boulder office (which has since improved) was such that Dick wound up being given a lay-off notice, which was expected. This was also an emotional roller coaster but Dick did discover that he's still marketable.

Then, out of the blue, a former manager of Dick's who had taken a high position in Sweden (but lived in Dublin) emailed Dick with an offer for a "Long Term Assignment" (LTA) in Sweden for 2 to 3 years. The position was a significant step up career-wise so Dick and Janis decided the "gravitational pull" was sufficient to accept the offer, not to mention the "adventure component" to the whole thing.

So that's the short story of how all this came about. We intend to get our kids out for some quality visits twice a year. We'd love to see you, too.