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In Armenia

I made it.

Thursday morning at 3:30 my flight touched down and I sped right through immigration and customs into the (relatively) cool night air of Yerevan.

The trip to Yerevan was marred with two separate, but stupid, incidents; since arrival, everything’s been swell!

First, at the Weimar train station, I stopped into the bakery, […]

Il-86

I’m playing the 24 Hour Game right now.

In exactly 24 hours from now, I will be waiting in an airport terminal, waiting for my connecting flight to board so that I can be on my way to Armenia, for the second time.

This is going to be a short trip: five nights away from […]

ReMote TV

It wasn’t that long ago that I wrote about the new satellite television decoders in my apartment.

At the time I had just installed the devices and I shared my horror at the discovery that a large number of channels carried disgusting aberrant sex: naked boys with naked girls doing the most unspeakable and unnatural […]

Can’t Lose

A couple days ago, at the office, one of my colleagues brought up something that reminded both of us of an early ‘90s television sitcom—while I struggled to remember its name, he blurted out “Parker Lewis Can’t Lose.”

Not only were we thinking of the same television show, apparently the TV show was an international […]

Photo Friday: Oddity

Public access typewriters are now an oddity.

Photo Friday Entry (#82) | elmada.com Home

Minor Changes Ahead

Last month, after J of Germany Doesn’t Suck did it, I submitted my name to the friendly gals at “So Many Blogs, So Little Time.”

It’s a group that goes out and evaluates blogs on a number of criteria and then assigns a rating to each blog, somewhere between zero and ten; with zero being […]

Wedding Season

I hadn’t realized it until this year, but August is wedding season.

By the end of this month, two of my hetero-friends will be formally hitched to the woman/man of his/her choice. I’ll be attending one of the two weddings—the one here in Germany, as opposed to the one in Denmark.

Strangely enough this will […]

Understanding Others

As I’ve slowly grown up, I’ve come to realize that one of the most difficult skills for people to acquire is empathy across differences and the ability to understand the lives of others.

I don’t necessarily mean empathy in Bill Clinton’s “I feel your pain” sense, but in the sense that most people never understand […]

Pleasant Summer Evenings

I’ve heard through the rumor mill that this German summer has been pretty cold, wet, and otherwise miserable.

Not so for me: if you’ll recall, when I was here for a week of meetings in July, it was a nice and toasty 38°C (100F, for the Celsius challenged). I pretty much spent the week sitting […]

Weimar in August

Weimar hasn’t really changed in my absence—really the only news of note, that I’ve identified, is that the city’s number one photographed monument in Theaterplatz, the statues of Goethe and Schiller, are being renovated and are under wraps.

It seems odd to me that the powers would chose to renovate the statues at the height […]