My friends Helga and Elga, whom I met on the
Internet.  They both have Web Sites on
Tripod.
 

This is the house I stayed in, and the house Helga and
Elga grew up in.  The house sure has character.
And so do Helga and Elga.  They are both married to men named Ulu, and
they all live together.  I asked if it doesn't get confusing, and Helga said
that's part of the fun of it.  She has a wonderful sense of humor.
 

This was the Tripod Convention in Stockholm which Helga and Elga
took me to.  Everyone was just wonderful.  They had a huge computer
inside and I looked at each person's Web Site including the youngest
of the children.  The woman on the far left holding the baby has a
site dedicated to Sailor Moon, and the tall man standing in the center has
a really impressive one about the history of mud wrestling.
 

Helga's husband, Ulu, took us all to a lovely Chinese restaurant
on the outside of Stockholm.  We had a terrific dinner even though
Ulu got into a bit of  a fracas with some of the waiters after he claimed
that the mooshi pork contained monosodium glutamate.

This is Helga and Elga's Aunt Astrid.  She uses the Internet more
practically than anyone I have yet to meet.  Even though it costs
her by the minute (unlike us in the States), she is constantly on ICQ
making contact with people from every city in the world.  Eventually they
invite her to come and visit.  When I met her, she had just returned from each
of 42 states in America, and she had just uploaded her adventures
to her Nashville home page.  (She devoted six pages to each person she visited
with photographs, and she now has the longest web site in the history of
Geocities.)   I'm not going to give you her url, because once you start
reading you won't be able to stop.   That's how exciting it is wondering
just what delicious meal she was going to have next and all the problems she experienced with her luggage at different airports.