Germany and Poland Pictures

September 28th, 2007

Pictures from my Germany and Poland are up at:
Germany and Poland Pictures
I have been really busy since I got back so i haven’t had much time to post. This weekend I am going diving one day and outdoor climbing the second day, so I should have some good pictures for you on Monday, and [...]

Germany: A Butcher and a Hotel

September 22nd, 2007

Current Mood: HappyThere are two reasons I haven’t written in a while. One, I am on a business trip through Germany, and then next week Poland. The other reason is that until about one minute ago, I had not finished watching all three seasons of the TV show Lost. Now that that is done, I [...]

Turkish Coffee and Tasseography

September 14th, 2007

Current Mood: Cool I had to look up Tasseography too, so I will save you the trouble and start off this entry with its definition (according to wikipedia.org):
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Tasseography (also known as tasseomancy or tassology) is a divination or fortune-telling method that interprets patterns in tea leaves, coffee grounds, or wine sediments.
The terms derive from the [...]

Ramadan

September 13th, 2007

Yesterday marked the first day of Ramadan. I won’t go into extreme detail about what it is, so if you are interested you can read Wikipedia’s Ramadan Page.   Simply put, Ramadan is an Islamic religious observance. It takes place during the ninth month of the Islamic calendar (it’s a lunar calendar, so it [...]

Ant’s Birthday

September 13th, 2007

Ant’s Birthday was about two weeks ago, but I just got the pictures from Izzy (he was on a week long hiking trip in the south of Turkey). Still exhausted from my vacation in the US, I took a nap and showed up for the clubbing half of the night (I skipped dinner). We went [...]

My Blog Turns 6 months old!

September 12th, 2007

It has been 6 months since I created this blog. For those of you that might be interested here is some general information about my blog so far.
Number of posts: 108
Number of comments: 91
Visits since I started using a statistics program (June 22, 2007): 950
Visits by month

June07 [...]

Istanbul Windsurfing Championships

September 12th, 2007

I didn’t compete, but I stopped by to see what was going on. The third leg of the Istanbul wind surfing championships was held at the wind surfing club I go to, less than 2 miles from my house. So on Friday afternoon of last week, we stopped by to see how things were going. [...]

Teaching English

September 10th, 2007

At the request of several of my coworkers, I have begun having a sort of English class at 5pm everyday (well we started on Thursday, and Friday’s was canceled because we had a small crisis in Greece). I have mostly just gone over some vocabulary with them and have been doing small phrases with them. [...]

Turkish Medical Care

September 6th, 2007

Current Mood: HappyI went back to the doctor today. I decided I should figure out how this whole health insurance thing works. According to Dilek, the woman at my health insurance company that is my contact (she’s the only one I could get on the phone to speak English), I have the best health insurance, [...]

Blog Update: Removed company name

September 5th, 2007

I decided that I do not want potential customers reading my blog. If they are searching for information on my company, they should find my blog – I am sure that is not what they are looking for anyway. Also, the fact that they can read my blog makes me a little bit more reserved. [...]