Well I had a nice post all ready to add when there was a power outage an hour ago, and I lost it ;-( There have been a few in the past few days, which is disturbing, because overall, they are not so common. I decided to call information, get the phone number for the power company and actually complain :-) They did not sound used to getting calls like that, and when I had one of them actually explaining to me WHY the power was out again, someone in the office must have asked him why he was doing that, or who was calling, because he said there was a spiruka-hay on the phone ;-))) Which brings me to one of the topics I wrote about and lost this morning... the spiurk-hayastan conference in late May. I went to a planning meeting yesterday at the foreign ministry and must say, it seems like it will be really good. Come a couple of days before the conference, there will be some great events introducing you to what is going on here. From being able to spend the day with a diasporan living here, to going on tours of businesses here and NGO's, as well as other events aside from the actual conference. If you have not signed up yet, hurry up, I think you are running out of time.... go to www.armeniadiaspora.com for that.