I would log more often, but as I said, the internet connection has been been pretty worthless lately, and I have had to use it for other work I do online. The biggest online project keeping me busy has been the new www.calendar.am site I have been working on. This site has a different Calendar of Events for every single Armenian community in the world. Today I moved some calendars around and finally consider it totally complete. I need all of you to start adding events going on in your community (just click on "add event") and to help me get others to link to this new site. Also, if any of you are interested in dedicating some time to your local community calendar, I would love to help you kind of "run" it yourself, adding/editing/modifying events, adding fields, etc.
The past two days have been colder and rainy, with a big lightening storm last night, which coincided with the fireworks show at the Vosgi Ashun (Golden Autumn) celebration. It was fantastic watching fireworks and lightening coincide... in the foreground of the view of this great show was the brand new huge billboard on my street with a lighted cigarette ad on it. It is sad to see the commercialism of the west creeping into every nook and cranny of this country.
My dad left today for Karabakh, where he will spend three days. That is way too short a trip there, you need to spend at least a couple of days there and a couple stopping along the way there and back. The drive alone is about 6 hours.
I want to buy a place in the countryside, a place where I can have a little garden and get away from it all. Some houses cost at $500 or less. The big question is whether you just go for the absolute best spot, or the closest nice spot, or a compromise... if it is half an hour away, you might visit much more often than if it is 2.5 hours away... but the place 2.5 hours away could be in a much nicer spot with a fantastic climate and cost a fraction of the price. The microclimates here make a big difference, and the area near the Azeri/Georgian border has palm trees it is so much warmer!
What else? Well I have forgotten the other things I wanted to log about, so you will have to wait for Ara's next log for more entertainment... oh! That reminds me that I saw him and his Mercedes, and I STILL can't picture him driving the streets of Karabakh in it! :-)
The past two days have been colder and rainy, with a big lightening storm last night, which coincided with the fireworks show at the Vosgi Ashun (Golden Autumn) celebration. It was fantastic watching fireworks and lightening coincide... in the foreground of the view of this great show was the brand new huge billboard on my street with a lighted cigarette ad on it. It is sad to see the commercialism of the west creeping into every nook and cranny of this country.
My dad left today for Karabakh, where he will spend three days. That is way too short a trip there, you need to spend at least a couple of days there and a couple stopping along the way there and back. The drive alone is about 6 hours.
I want to buy a place in the countryside, a place where I can have a little garden and get away from it all. Some houses cost at $500 or less. The big question is whether you just go for the absolute best spot, or the closest nice spot, or a compromise... if it is half an hour away, you might visit much more often than if it is 2.5 hours away... but the place 2.5 hours away could be in a much nicer spot with a fantastic climate and cost a fraction of the price. The microclimates here make a big difference, and the area near the Azeri/Georgian border has palm trees it is so much warmer!
What else? Well I have forgotten the other things I wanted to log about, so you will have to wait for Ara's next log for more entertainment... oh! That reminds me that I saw him and his Mercedes, and I STILL can't picture him driving the streets of Karabakh in it! :-)
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