Well, it has started. The bombs are falling. I will try to withhold comment on it because I can go on for pages... All entries into New York City are being checked now (imagine the traffic!) and national guard and police are being deployed all over. The price tab is nearly a million dollars a day. Luckily I do not have to commute or go anywhere, and have no intention of doing so!
I am happy to say that Levon Travel has removed my photos from their web site, and Ani Tour has agreed to, although at this time they are still on there. I am particularly glad these two cooperated because I like their companies otherwise. Now my battles to reclaim my photos are almost complete (I think!).
Two web anniversaries are around now. This website is now seven years old. I started it when I got back from living in Armenia for the first time and my internet account came with this thing called "free web space". Five whole megs, which it took me a while to fill. Then I got my own scanner and that quickly changed. As my need for bigger space kept surfacing, and plus I got tired of changing my e-mail address, I decided to get a domain name, and here we are on cilicia.com seven years later. Two years ago the Life in Armenia log was started. Armenia has come so far from the days of early independence when virtually no Western Armenians had ever visited and rumors of massive street crime and "the mafia" frightened off whoever wasn't too scared to go to a country without regular electricity and water supplies. Now we have an online journal of Western Armenians happily living in the homeland, with all the creature comforts, as productive members of society. You can go back and read two years worth of impressions and thoughts, see how things are changing, and what it is like to live there.
As I have had a lot of time on my hands, I have been a bit scattered about a bunch of things I have been working on, but have been doing some good stuff. One of the things I have been up to is promoting www.calendar.am quite a bit. Now that web site is getting a lot more visitors and event listings. Check your local community calendar to see what is going on in your neck of the woods. Bookmark it. Forward the link to your friends. If you want to help maintain your community calendar, just let me know. I have also recently redone the discussion boards on cilicia.com as I mentioned, and made the cookbook a little better too. I think the message boards are more inviting now and already seem to have more posts than before. Lots of other projects big and little are progressing too, but not enough focus on any one project for much in the way of results.
I read today that Glendale is going to build a new chess park, mostly for the Armenian population that is so into chess, making Glendale a nationwide center for it. This is great news, and I think that chess parks in general are a cool idea, but spending $400,000 to build a park with 14 chess tables sounds overpriced to me. And there is not even one of those massive chess boards with life sized peices that are so cool. I hope the park turns out nice. It couldn't hurt to throw in a few tavlu/nardi tables too :-)
I am happy to say that Levon Travel has removed my photos from their web site, and Ani Tour has agreed to, although at this time they are still on there. I am particularly glad these two cooperated because I like their companies otherwise. Now my battles to reclaim my photos are almost complete (I think!).
Two web anniversaries are around now. This website is now seven years old. I started it when I got back from living in Armenia for the first time and my internet account came with this thing called "free web space". Five whole megs, which it took me a while to fill. Then I got my own scanner and that quickly changed. As my need for bigger space kept surfacing, and plus I got tired of changing my e-mail address, I decided to get a domain name, and here we are on cilicia.com seven years later. Two years ago the Life in Armenia log was started. Armenia has come so far from the days of early independence when virtually no Western Armenians had ever visited and rumors of massive street crime and "the mafia" frightened off whoever wasn't too scared to go to a country without regular electricity and water supplies. Now we have an online journal of Western Armenians happily living in the homeland, with all the creature comforts, as productive members of society. You can go back and read two years worth of impressions and thoughts, see how things are changing, and what it is like to live there.
As I have had a lot of time on my hands, I have been a bit scattered about a bunch of things I have been working on, but have been doing some good stuff. One of the things I have been up to is promoting www.calendar.am quite a bit. Now that web site is getting a lot more visitors and event listings. Check your local community calendar to see what is going on in your neck of the woods. Bookmark it. Forward the link to your friends. If you want to help maintain your community calendar, just let me know. I have also recently redone the discussion boards on cilicia.com as I mentioned, and made the cookbook a little better too. I think the message boards are more inviting now and already seem to have more posts than before. Lots of other projects big and little are progressing too, but not enough focus on any one project for much in the way of results.
I read today that Glendale is going to build a new chess park, mostly for the Armenian population that is so into chess, making Glendale a nationwide center for it. This is great news, and I think that chess parks in general are a cool idea, but spending $400,000 to build a park with 14 chess tables sounds overpriced to me. And there is not even one of those massive chess boards with life sized peices that are so cool. I hope the park turns out nice. It couldn't hurt to throw in a few tavlu/nardi tables too :-)
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