Zabel got me an early Christmas present in the form of 24hr internet access this month... so I can actually log in the middle of the day! Internet is one of the expensive things about life in Armenia. 24 hr access (56k) costs $50/mo while night-time only (8pm-8am) access costs $20/mo. So I can only dream of DSL lines, mp3 trading and no busy signals on the phone and meanwhile curse the Greek telecom OTE which has a monopoly on the phone system here, as well as the corrupt officials who gave it to them for a nice early retirement account.

Now that I am only working part time, I have a lot of time during the day. It is hard to focus on editing text all day to add to my web site. I am trying to add detailed information on about 25 tourist attractions, as well as add language lessons online. I have all the text, it is just a matter of editing it and then putting it in web format. Soon I will have a bunch of newspaper articles from the time of the Armenian Genocide I will be adding as well, and eye-witness accounts of the genocide that have never been available in English before. Those are the plans, anyhow.

So we finally plugged in the big heater last night and today is nice and warm again... but I of course am not complaining!

One last note, I got a few questions about real estate this week, so let me refer people first to an article I wrote in EscapeArtist.com about many of the aspects of moving to Armenia. It should make interesting reading and answer a wide number of questions for people curious about Armenia.