New bloggers and comments

Welcome to the newest loggers - you may have noticed them already. Lara on this page (and Nareg a bit earlier), Rupen on Diaspora and now Christina on the Hayastantsi logs! She's logged twice already (in Armenian!), so this should be some good practice for those of you wanting something current and interesting to read in Hayeren. I'm also enjoying some of the great posts from people who've been quieter... there have been some really cool ones as of late.

I'll take this opportunity to mention that comments are now "moderated", meaning I have to read them and ok them before they actually show up. Just a nice way to prevent mess' which I seem to be cleaning up before they happen. Also nice since I am now up on the "Gold Coast" of Australia, and not really online. The "Gold Coast" is not to be confused with the "Sunshine Coast", an hour up - I tell you, a lot of marketing is in these names. I'm staying in a town called Surfer's Paradise now, which reminds me of Waikiki, actually. There is a new residential tower here they said is the biggest in the world. I dunno, but it is definitley huge - did they say 80+ floors? I wanted to know how many square meters it is to see how many times you could fit my apartment in there. Or how much of downtown Yerevan for that matter. Not being there, I hope they are making swift progress on the new blvd, though I doubt it in the cold they are having. I am tired of everything being a construction site, and it would be nice if at least Tumanyan was finished, if not Pushkin. Arami poghots will be a mess for years to come. So anyway, I will explore this area of the coast for a week (Brisbane, Byron Bay, that Croc Hunter khent's zoo, etc). Then off to Perth, then Sydney...