Wow, what a great string of logs! I myself have enjoyed reading what everyone is up to a great deal, and hope this becomes the norm. On the other hand I should warn readers for now that they have to keep checking in to read the logs since I am not able to archive since April 11. So if you don't check the logs for a week or two you will miss a few logs until that archiving feature is fixed. To the loggers I must say that the problem is with Blogger, they cannot handle archiving "extended ansi characters". This means if you type your logs ahead of time in another program first, PLEASE use notepad or wordpad, but NOT MS Word!! Word slides in extended ansi characters all the time without warning you.

So time is flying by, and in a few days I leave for the states on a business trip. I can't believe it is sneaking up on me so quick. It will be nice travelling lightly for once, even though I really don't have too much choice in the matter. At work I have been doing all sorts of scattered tasks, and this week we got to go on a field trip to the Nuclear Power Plant at Metsamor. It was quite cool, and looked well run, but I was still glad to know that it had been turned off and is being refueled anytime now. It felt like a Simpsons episode, visiting Mr. Burns' power plant, but instead of a containment dome they only have massive cooling towers, so it looks rather different. This plant is capable of generating 42% of Armenia's electricity if you want to know how critical it is for Armenia at this time. The problem is it is supposed to be shut down as soon as possible for two reasons, first it was only designed and meant to be run for so many decades, and second, the lack of the containment dome, despite all the other safety precautions, is still a concern.

Oh and just as I was giving up on the summer house, they called and said everything, including all the land, was finally in order. It only took about SIX months!! :-)