From 1995 through 1999, I was a member of the team in Sweden developing the radiometer for Odin, and from 2000 I was based in Calgary. My work on the Odin radiometer development was part of the Canadian contribution to the project, and I was funded by the Canadian Space Agency through a contract to the University of Calgary. Each month, I provided a report to my supervisor in Canada, Sun Kwok, Principal Investigator for Odin Astronomy in Canada, and Professor of Astronomy at the University of Calgary. The reports almost always began the same way: