Messin' with Texas

Things were getting stale. Time to change some things. A new theme for this blog is the first of several things that are going to be different.

I received a card yesterday from a friend pointing something out to me. She said I had lost my positive voice in my entries. That I was looking at the negative things. Thank you. I think you are correct. It’s been tough trying to overcome various culture differences between what I have experienced thus far [...]

I updated a few things.

I changed the about page. I re-wrote the text and put a new picture, one which I like very much. It was taken on the bus on the way to work at 6am. Happened to see someone sipping from that.
I added my picture to the contact page
I updated the places I [...]

In case some of you didn’t realize, my comments on my blog are made using the alias skyblueshu. I have fixed that so now it will show my name as Conrad on all future posts and comments. However, old comments I have not yet figured out how to Change.
- Conrad

Current Mood: HappyWell a lot has happened since I last wrote a real post way back on… December 12th! It was a real pain in the butt trying to get my domains transfered and set up my new host for my website, but it’s all finally done thanks to the help of Ant and Ali [...]

I am back! Thanks to Ant and Ali Emre for helping me with everything. There are still some kinks to be worked out but the transfer is finished. I need to fix the pictures, and Ant has some tweaking left to do but other than that, everything is on track. I promise an entry by [...]

Since a new year is about to begin, I thought I would ask you the reader if there are any specific topics or questions you would like me to address. In the coming months, or if anyone would like to see specific things in and around Turkey.

Hello everyone,
My life has been getting busier and busier, and I have been getting more and more tired. With a week vacation in Morocco, followed by a visit from my brother and a friend from university, coming up, there is no break in sight. I therefore regret to inform you all that I am taking [...]

I have recently received some criticisms related to my sweeping generalizations about Turks and their culture.  I know, that’s intentional. As my reader, keep in mind that I get most of my information from observations, stories, and from my interactions with the two distinct groups of people I interact with. The first group being my [...]

Current Mood: EsctaticI would like to take this opportunity to go over two things.
1. Bragging: I started using Google Analytics to track my blogs visitors and my company website visitors (I made the website, so it’s my duty to maintain it). I figure it is never a bad idea to take a few simple steps [...]