I can certainly vouch for the appearance of tourists all over. I was at Marco Polo last night at the outdoor tables and saw a good number of them wandering the streets :-) It is inspiriing, makes me want to finish revising Rediscovering Armenia asap.

My cold is creeping along. No signs of ending, but it is not keeping me at home either. The forecast seems to be predicting great weather from now on, so I want to get out of town this weekend, so I really want this cold to just end already.

Work is going ok. I have written a couple of interesting articles about the work we are doing in the past couple of weeks which I hope will show up in the Diasporan newspapers soon.

And in one of those matters I don't feel free to openly discuss, I am being hit up for a bribe. At this point I am still determined to resist...

And finally, this week I was worried I did not have a particular issue in mind to write my commentary about, but I have to give a "special" thanks to the Armenian President for helping me out with this matter. Read on:
AMOT, ROBO-JAN