Messin’ with Texas

Current Mood: Happy
It has been just over a month since I left for Turkey, and I have learned a lot. For one, I actually know something about air compressors, which is helpful in my line of work. I finally bought the aptly named “Teach Yourself Turkish” Book and CDs, so that I can start learning [...]

Here’s a picture of Liz and I the Sunday I left Hannover. Yes, she has short hair now.

Current Mood: CoolYesterday, Tuesday, we had a long meeting to organize ourselves after the Hannover fair. Basically, Murat and I took all the contacts we made at the Hannover fair (a total of 75 potential distributors and 9 potential OEM customers) and divided them up. In a sense we were dividing up the world. I [...]

I posted some pictures at:
Hannover Pictures

Current Mood: AngryWhile we were setting up the stand, I did my best to take periodic pictures from the same spot. Since I didn’t have a tripod, and I wasn’t too disciplined about this project, it came out so so. There are about 60 pictures in this 30 second clip. Setting up the stand took [...]

Here is a short story I wrote March 3rd, 2005. Anybody pick up on the significance of that date?
The story is supposed to be a metaphor for life. Let me know what you think.
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The Train Ride
It’s cold. It’s dark. The few lights on the platform appear to have been vandalized recently leaving you, and the [...]

Sigh… It’s finally over. What an exhausting week. Today, Friday, was the last day of the fair so it was kind of slow. Murat and I went around and visited other companies: sellers of both competing and complimentary products. It was kind of nice. We had cappuccino with the general manager of Dominick Hunter, got [...]

Sorry it has been a while. We have been super busy with the fair. I made a short video by taking pictures periodically, of our stand being constructed. I will edit and post when I get back to Istanbul. Unfortuneately this post is not going to be a long one. I would just like [...]

It may seem like I am not posting, but I infact have two blog posts
sitting on my laptop in my room, waiting to get mailed out. I just
haven´t had an internet connection in two days, so they are just
sitting there. Hopefully they will get posted tonight.
So, this is my second full day in Hannover. Last [...]

Sorry, but since I have limited access here in Germany (or at-least so far), my posts won’t be very visual. I am posting via email, and I am not quite sure how to include pictures, nor do I have any good maps or pictures to include without the internet.
Anyway, I am here in Hannover. Yeah! [...]