What timing, I am in NY for the worst winter storm in years, a state of emergency. The sidewalks are piled high and there is loads of mush all over. The silver lining I have found so far? My shoes are pretty clean. They were always dusty in Yerevan. :-) We were in Boston last weekend, visiting Zabels parents. We didn't leave the house except once to visit one of my old friends from my high school days who has been there a year. Here in NY, as soon as things melt a little I plan on hanging out with all the friends I keep realizing I have here.

My computer is now seriously kicking some butt. All I need now is DSL, which the landlord has promised. The TV card is working, I can watch DVDs, Richards speaker/woofer system is amazing. I am just loving it. The next temptation is a DVD burner, but I must resist this consumerism! (we'll see how long any determination lasts). The thing is I have so much data on my hard drive, something like 60 GB, that its really quite impossible to back up any other way, except buying a second hard drive or a DVD burner.

In the news I am quite pleased with the turnouts around the world at the peace rallys last weekend. If I had been in NY I would have attended, even in the cold. It is great that so many people stood up and said this whole attack Iraq fixation that Bush has is precisely that, Bush's fixation. Not that of the USA, not that of the west, nobodys except this one man who is hellbent on getting his way at some incredible cost. Let him stop sending billions of dollars to human rights abusing nations like Turkey and Israel before attacking Iraq.