while ara logs about the aftermath of war in nkr, i can't help but be saddened ny what we managed to muster up with our new parliament. most are a wrong wrong group of people who have no place in politics. yet another dissapointment. yet another reality. yet another group of people who will park their mercedes jeeps on the sidewalk and sit at big tables (with the ajoining long smaller table for the lesser people who have come to see them) and do favors and deals. yet another group of people who will shortly acquire an outdoor cafe, a gas station, and start a construction group which will receive important infrastructure projects from the government.

i am not saying it is not like this everywhere in the world. dick cheney has the deal to rebuild the oil fields in iraq. this is everywhere. i have always said that the big difference is that in the states and perhaps some other countries in europe... the acting is better. here in armenia everything is obvious, everything is in front of your face. so it is just a little harder to digest. it really has an impact on your psyche.

on a more positive note... it seems like summer is really underway. guests are swarming in and arthur and i are planning our summer. this is the part of year that we don't mind guests too much. it is a bit later that we start to say enough is enough... leave us alone. for now we are excited to be out in the summer sun... and yes people i am finally happy with the weather.

today is my last day of tile remond and later this week we will do the ceiling. after that we will be back to normal and will start thinking of remonding our basement, and building ourselves a garage for the car. this entire city is under construction. so we might as well do whatever we can for ourselves while we are breathing dust anyways.