Messin' with Texas

For 40 dollars you get lunch and a 6 hour day of horseback riding in the mountains outside of Quito, transportation included. In hindsight, I guess they were closer to high hills. It was good fun, although there was a lot of down time before and after the ride waiting for transportation. My butt wasn’t [...]

I have super busy so I have been late posting a lot of things. My life has been very hectic lately. I am going to start a series of entries here posting my videos from my trip to Ecuador in January. It was a great trip and I had a lot of fun. I will [...]

Here in Beaumont we have a group called the La Cercle Francaise (The French Circle). It is based out of Lamar University and is organized by the head of the French deparment there, Dr Ken Rivers. Twice a year they show a series of French films on campus on a weekly basis, and about once [...]

Just over a week ago, I went to Chicago to play diplomacy ( If you don’t know what diplomacy is at this point, you have not been reading enough. Look it up yourself). Is a great event. It was well run, a good venue, and a decent field of players. Although I did not do [...]

Random sign on the side of the road. Not sure what they were selling.

Water tower on one of the back roads

Baseball, the great American past time

Oil pumps. Just need a couple of long horns to create the perfect image of Texas

Sour Lake, Texas, the home of Texaco…

… has a population of less than 2,000

Middle [...]

Last weekend I went to Seattle, Washington to play in a Diplomacy tournament at the washington athletic club (WAC). For those of you that do not know me, Diplomacy is a game that I am very passionate about and that I play all of the US and all over the world. My brother and I [...]

This past weekend, because of Martin Luther King Jr day, and the fact that my job is only four days a week, I had a four day weekend. So I drove to Baton Rouge, Louisiana to visit a friend from school. It was a three hour drive through totally flat swamps and plains, but the [...]

While visiting my grand parents in the Poconos Mountains in Eastern Pennsylvania, my uncle and my cousin and I went hiking through the old coal mines. The Poconos are one of the few places in the world where you can find anthracite, a type of coal characterized by a very high carbon content, which although [...]

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 [...]

Last week I attended an exhibition on industrial technologies with my company. Alper and I went, and we were joined by Ahmet Aral, the owner of one our distributors and the manufacturer of our high-pressure products. This is the first of many fairs we are planning to attend over the next year, and the first [...]