Messin’ with Texas

Yesterday I went climbing. It was great. I successfully climbed one of the routes for the first time and I climbed the very difficult slanted wall with relative ease. My grip still needs to be stronger to do some of the more challenging routes, but I am more determined than ever to improve. Erman came [...]

Current Mood: HappyMy weekend was pretty good. Unfortunately I currently only have pictures from Saturday and Sunday, but hopefully I will get some pictures from Friday.
Friday Night: We did an evening Bosporus cruise on Izzy’s yacht with a mixed group of about 12. Ant, Izzy and Erman were there from the people that I knew. [...]

Current Mood: HappyPart of keeping my sanity during the week when I only have Murat and Alper to talk to is staying very active. I try to do some kind of sportive activity as often as possible. I feel it is very important to keep your body healthy (this is obvious) but it is also [...]

Current Mood: HappySo my little boardgame project seems to be taking off. For the past few weeks I have been making an attempt (with the help of Izzy), to organize a standing weekly gaming session, and it seems to be working out. I had originally discussed the idea with Izzy and had decided to wait [...]

Current Mood: EsctaticLook very closely and see if you can figure out what is in these pictures that is making me so happy.

Did you get it? It’s air conditioning!!! After two weeks of asking Murat’s uncle Ahmet to arrange air conditioning for us, it finally happened (it takes forever to get anything done around here [...]

Current Mood: Angry & ConfusedHere, to catch up read Crisis and Crisis Update
The good news is, I have my laptop back it’s working. The bad news is, it has a new hard drive in it and I am now starting the slow and painful process of going through externally saved data, and reorganizing myself. [...]

Current Mood: Alarmed & Angry & Confused & Mischievous & Sad & SicklySo the guy I took my laptop to could not recover the data. He expected so and he told me, but I was hoping beyond all hope that this wasn’t true. There are however more advanced data recovery [...]

Current Mood: Angry & Confused & Sad & SicklySome of you will appreciate the magnitude of this crisis more than others. You need to know that I was very very very attached to my laptop. For the past few weeks, my computer has been acting funny when it heats up. To prevent this from happening, [...]

Current Mood: ConfusedLast night after work I went to the city with Murat. He dropped me off at the indoor climbing place in Etiler where I did some climbing by myself for about an hour. After that I met with Tahsin and we went to Tophane where we were to meet with Ant and some [...]

Current Mood: ConfusedYou may remember a post from way back in March where, I talked about some of the clear differences between Murat and myself. If not click here to catch up.
I am reminded of this entry because of my recent interaction with Oytun, the consultant we are paying to take care of our stock [...]