I keep forgetting to write about the disaster that appears to be looming in my future... my view of Ararat appears ready to be at least partially blocked by a new highrise under construction. This boggles my mind, because it is a good half kilometer or more away, and being built in front of existing highrises, so I thought nothing would top those. This looks like it is about to... very disturbing.

So you have read about how difficult it can be to get something done with the government and utilities here on a few occasions, of course it can be hard in any country. Well I have been imagining how nice it would be to just hire someone to take care of all of this for me, and now that I suddenly have a bunch of things piling up, and little to no desire to deal with it, I have finally found a university student to handle all of this for me. Ah, such peace of mind. Still there are a number of things I can't pass on, like my trip to the bank this morning (since it is not open at all on weekends), but it is a bit load off.

The news is on in the background, and I must say I am disappointed in BBC, and the US Government. The BBC for calling Saddams destruction of the marshlands the "environmental disaster of the century". I thought they avoided at kind of sensationalistic and idiotic labeling. I am quite certain there are a dozen much bigger disasters that took place in the last century, and that many of them were probably in the USA and Europe. The Florida wetlands certainly jump to mind immediately. Then you hear that the US has banned the showing of any coffins of US soldiers in the media. Is the Iraq war a fight for freedom or not? How contradictory can you be? This of course is on top of the detention of people in Cuba, the removal of all kinds of other freedoms in the name of fighting terrorism... Just disgusting. Are these people so removed from reality that they can't see what they are doing?

They have passed a massive aid bill for Iraq this week, which is only fair to the Iraqis whos country the US bombs ravaged. But why did we go in there and necesitate this to begin with? In any case, I encourage you to apply for the plentiful lucrative jobs popping up in Iraq. It is perfect experience for similiar jobs in Armenia which are rather competitive. With Iraq on your resume, you can even get preferential treatment for certain hirings. Of course being in Iraq is not without its dangers, but I suspect that New York/LA are still more dangerous...

Now where are the other loggers?!?!?!