#and now i have 3 liras in my bank account

[doakaptan]

i may not be mentally okay but so is ted

so, kids, this is the story of how I watched how I met your mother and accidentally spiraled into an existential crisis

At the start of this semester, I started watching How I Met Your Mother for the third time to overcome my fear of sitting through films and shows. The show is familiar and, something I already liked so, I did not think I would find any errors or things that would make me uncomfortable. 

Well, first of all, I was wrong and, second of all, now I’m afraid to watch Friends again because I know I’m going to hate it after a while. 

How I met your mother is a lighthearted show about a guy named Ted who’s trying to find the love of his life to get married and... That’s basically it. Most of what Ted wants throughout the show centers around his dream of getting married and, we see most of his lowest moments during the times he’s chasing after that dream. Actually, the show starts with his lowest moment where he confesses his love for Robin within their first date, insisting she’s the one, and this creepy attempt at romance kickstarts the 9 season adventure that is Ted’s life.

Most of HIMYM’s humor derives from the year it takes place. So, I was not surprised to see jokes that are pretty offending thrown in every two to three lines. Still, the show is too lighthearted to take them seriously so, I kept watching without a hitch. 

Everything was fine until I reached season 5 and then things starting getting out of control. 

In the 5th season, most of the gang starts moving on with their lives. Marshall and Lily get married and start thinking about having children, Ted becomes a professor at Columbia University, Robin starts trying out things that she wouldn’t do; like getting in a serious relationship and putting it before her career ambitions. Barney... Well, Barney is the same old Barney but, now he is more aware of his on-going issues. Try guessing who’s my favorite character.

Then,  I started feeling like I’m losing friends and that they are moving on with their lives faster than I am. I think this was due to me procrastinating while the rest of my friends actually finished projects while I was watching HIMYM but, I digress. 

This is also the season where Spongebobification or Simpsonification of HIMYM starts. Now, what the hell does that mean? Let me quickly explain. 

As shows go along with more seasons the characters start becoming the shells of their former selves. In Spongebob, the main characters are reduced into single characteristics like; Patrick being plainly dumb, Mr. Krabs being stingy, Spongebob gay, Squidward only being sad. In Simpsons it’s the same thing but more painful... The characters no longer have depth, they are merely two-dimensional. 

It starts to be that way for HIMYM characters, especially Ted.

Ted becomes someone who’s so blatantly obsessed with his perception of love and, how relationships should be, that he slowly manipulates Robin and Barney into breaking up. He does not approve of how free-spirited Robin is and instead wants her to want the exact same things as himself. 

The same thing goes for his thoughts on Barney and Robin’s relationship. He finds them incompatible while they are oddly similar in many ways. Both have commitment issues but, they get each other since their issues beyond commitment are also similar. Their preferences on alcohol, cigars, relationships, even their daddy issues are similar. 

Ted doesn’t see the similarities or their compatibility and even gives Barney lectures on Robin. For me, that episode is the one where I realized Ted completely lost it. 

And as I watch more, I remember even more of the final episode and it gets on my nerves. For everyone’s sake, I’ll leave out my thoughts on the final since the last time I’ve watched it was several years ago; but, I will come back and update this post once I am finished with it. 

Lastly, as season 5 progresses and we move onto the sixth season.. Things for the gang start settling down for once. 4/5 of the doppelgangers are found, Lily and Marshal are set on having a baby and, Ted is both enjoying his job as a professor and, as an architect who’s in the process of designing a building that would affect the skyline of Manhattan.

This got me thinking about my own goals and dreams and, I realized that I’ve kind of lost it. I’m having a hard time dreaming about my future; I don’t know what I want and, I have no idea whether I want to continue my life as it is. Yet, I have no idea what I’ll do if I were to change it and, I don’t know why I’m feeling like this while the episode is mainly about men with small dicks. 

But thanks to this hot mess of a season I sped up the process of my internship and, I’m looking for a job on the side to make me feel like I’m doing something. I know I’ll be back to normal once the school kicks back in full force but, this hectic schedule won’t be with me after I graduate and, I don’t want to fall into a void once it leaves... At least I hope it won’t be like this after I graduate because if it's even worse than this I won’t hesitate to sue request the school to pay for the therapy I desperately need.

To conclude once and for all, I may have lost it along the way but, at least I know how I met your mother has it worse than me.

Also I just wanted to add that, something about the lighting of this show makes everyone who appears look awfully average. I know for a fact that Cobie Smulders (Robin) is ten times more attractive than how she’s on the show and not only her but they managed to make the likes of Britney Spears, Nicole Scherzinger, Jennifer Lopez look average. There’s a lesson about lighting there but, I don’t exactly know. 

[kazamastar]

Welcome to 2019

Version 3.0 : Final Version - Wow. February and finally, the 9th is here. All of you my 488 followers can finally enjoy it (372 by the end of 2017). I’ve never been that late to write a sum up but it’s pretty obvious that if it took me so much time to do it, then deep down I didn’t want to do it. Indeed I was about to let that sink in and leave this post with the version 2.0. But I remembered I had one person to honor. And this is what this year 2018 is about : focusion on the good actions and the good people. Because spoiler alert : this year 2018 have been on some other level of shit. More than 2013, 2014 and 2017 combined.

Pic : Plot twist. No more smile. No more bowtie.

Well let’s do some quickmaths : as i said we upgraded from 372 to 488 followers (and roughly 2,241 posts). For the 9th time I have to say that I have mad love for y’all (except fake pr0n blogs, y’all aint shit). For the humans that still follow me : thank you. And I’ll have even more love for the poeple who read this until the end haha. I have to apologize because these last months my tumblr looks pretty much like a mess, between the heartbreaking lyrics, quotes, passive agressive posts than only a few people can understand ... And that’s all because of that one follower I lost (y’all understood it was an euphemism). But to be accurate, I don’t want this post to become another heartbreak post : there are already too much of them on my tumblr. Indeed, it’s one of the main contraints I forced myself to write under. Because “l’art naît de contraintes” (Art rises from contraints) like Van Gogh said. So : not another heartbreak post where I pour my heart out for a girl who won’t even read it (guess I’ve done enough with the Helsinki post).  But it’s kinda difficult because this break up is the main reason my 4 last months of 2018 (and on...) have been so so awful and so much things happened because of this. But nevermind I’ll do my best. I’ll do my best because like I said, this post is more about love. This break up surely made me less human, mistrustful, but still, I’m writting because I’ve seen beautiful actions that had to be honored. But we’ll see that later. What other contraints for this 9th sum up ? A young lady I’ve met this year challenged me to write 2 good things for 1 bad that happened to me this year. I’m sorry, I failed ahah. I found more good than bad, but that 2 for 1 ratio was a bit too much ahah. Désolé ma grande ;) And because of this, I had to have a kind of draft for writting, even though I always told myself these sum up needed to be written without drafts, to keep them kinda “natural”. Looks like I’m taking this more and more seriously haha. Well, when I say that this year have been worse than my 3 worst years combined this is not a joke. Have you ever told yourself for example “Wow I left all my stuff in the car, I would be deadly unlucky if someone would break into it and stole everything !” ...Yes, that’s that level of mischance. Because this happened to me btw. And that’s the spirit of this whole year. In “Welcome to 2016″ I remember talking about “mala suerte” ... that was bullshit, 2018 is the real mala suerte. The heartbreak of this year is the worst of my whole life by far, then I’ve been close to what I dreamt of in karate, what I fight for since 2011, had 2 chances to get it this year and I still not got it by a hair’s breadth. Dad got into a crash car, hopefully only the car got wrecked. (so sad it won’t take me again to Andorra haha) People kept on deceiving me. Close friends but also unknowns.

People close to me know how much I cherish friendship. If you’re my friend and you’re not doing well, then I’m already on my way to yours to fix you. No exceptions. Even faster if it’s because of a heartbreak, because heartbroken people should never feel lonely. It’s that simple. SO when I see fuckers I have been there for through ups, downs and heartbreaks and these people are not even able to give it back to me I can’t help being mad. And I don’t act like that in order to make people give that kindness back to me, that’s not the purpose. But I do hate ungratefulness. So, I had to go through a heartbreak again and I saw people disappear again. So that’s enough lines wasted talking about these people. I also have to talk about those who were there. In 2018 I also found an awesome training partner and got closer to her clan. That’s a positive energy I really needed on that 2nd half of 2018. Par ailleurs, tu liras surement jamais ça mais je me permets une parenthèse pour te dire encore une fois Merci Julie pour avoir sauvé ma vie. This kind of old friendship is priceless to me. We can also talk about some young friendship : in march I met someone (almost my best 2018, except I didn’t manage to define an encounter good enough to define it as the best of 2018) who made me go deeper into Tekken, making me getting closer to the Tekken community in Tls. Funny how I always dreamt of this when I was a kid and this is happening. Indeed I’m living the shonen life : I’m in a group (where I met some really lovely people), I’m not the strongest but hell I do what I can to improve and that’s begining to pay even if i won’t forget the 68-0 against sensei, and like in karate I still aim to the top. It’s funny to be inside another competitive world where people don’t have all the values we have in karate. Some of these Tekken people (in the whole country, not only in Toulouse) show off, are mean to each other etc ... And also like in karate, we admire asians for being the best to do it in the whole world. What else ? I became a karate teacher. Took me a bit of time, it wasn’t hard but just took me time and dedication. I still met some great people all along this experience. I made peace with the old pals, vacays together were really incredible. Some of the sweetest days of this year. One of the sweetest day this year was the day I worked hard as hell and went back “home” to the one I love. What a lovely feeling. But I guess we didn’t lived it the same way ... Then, I also had the chance to make a karate lesson in the 1st place I’ve been taught karate !!! This was outstanding because I love to give back to those who gave me, and I love to inspire people. So, it was such a pleasure to tell these kids “I was standing where you are now. I started like you and I’ve been getting stronger and stronger. If I did it you can do it too !!!”. I truly believe some of those kids are about to be deadly strong, hopefully I’ll be done with competition haha. Talking about competition, i sadly lost my title in Andorra by mid June.  At the end of the competition, I promised to come back stronger and to revenge but there will be no revenge as this competition will not be repeated in 2019. Indeed, this Andorra 2018 was a great competition and a great trip. A cool trip, great team, great mates, a lot of alcohol, a good hotel room, and love ... so much love. A deadly hangover, but a lot of love. Sadly, there would not have been love again, as 1414 who was my coach for the weekend, my partner on the tatami and in life decided to take a different path from mine. Indeed, I promised to not talk too much about that but this is all the 2nd half of 2018 is about : me trying not to drown because of this heartbreak and it feels like everything is related to that. I got cocky and forgot the 1st and only love lesson my father taught me “nothing lasts forever, mostly in love”. Damn he was right. Even my mother was right for not trusting her at the begining, and God knows she’s never right usually. I won’t even mention what that break up costed me. But as the big bro says : there were no house, no kids, no joined bank account ... Only wasted times and dead dreams now. “La mort d’un rêve” ... it’s still something painful. S. is now a dead dream. I cannot imagine my own flesh meeting some destructive people like the ones I met and going through hard times like I’m going through. I wouldn’t be able to handle it. So no more S. and no more L., and it’s a hell of a problem as I’ve always built my life around the fact that I wanted them. And it’s painful because I wanted them with her. Nevermind, no one will ever know “what a great father I could be” as 1414 said. So much dreams. Gone. My 5 brothers took care of me as much as they could and they did amazingly great. I’ll never thank God enough for putting these guys into my life. Hope they know how much I love them. That was sad to see another one of them going back to his motherland but ... what an amazing last evening in Toulouse we spent. I’ll never forget this one.

Still talking about the break up and all the bad that happened this year : tbh I couldn’t draw good lessons from all of these bad things. Really. But like I said, I’ve seen good things coming from good people. So now I need to talk about 27. First of all, 27 was right on so many levels. (yes, I use numbers to not drop real names). Those who know me know that I love to experience, live everything. I would have been better without this heartbreak but still, it taught me new things. I could understand 27 better. When she talked about hell, she wasn’t joking at all. The doubts, the negativity, the hate, self-hate ... I think that’s too much to handle. But still, she still tried to help me when she saw me going through that hell. I couldn‘t thank her enough for this and that must be remembered. This is the whole reason I still wanted to write this sum up, in spite of all the bad things that happened. It was like : a soul lending a hand to another soul. Merci. Je ne l’oublierai jamais, je t’en dois une belle. Et toujours d’une âme à une autre. Tu dis le contraire mais tu as une belle âme et je suis sûr qu’il te reste beaucoup d’amour à donner. Tu as trop à donner à ce monde (en espérant que tu me lises un jour)

Also, I could understand 26 better. [...] And 26 still have the most beautiful smile in the whole world. No transition : Najwa Zebian said that « it’s unfair that new people in my life will have to destroy walls around me they didn’t even built » (btw I love this woman, she also had a big impact on my life through her reflexions) and I can tell she’s right but … trusting people is so hard these days. I really don’t know what to think about this statement. I think I’ve always been picky about who I let close to me and I still got fucked up by my ex-lover, my entourage … It’s all about who to trust, who to let in and who to cut … And it feels like I’ve been making the wrong decisions for years.

It’s starting getting late so let me end up with facts nobody cares. Neutral facts : I discovered lofi this year, my hero academia (FUCKING AWESOME !!!!), Tokyo Ghoul, 7DS, sword art online (great !!), la casa de papel, stranger things, sherlock, IP MAN 3, the good place, misfits, Juice Wrld blew up this year, NAV, Dosseh ... Funny how I discovered some of the saddest love song this year haha. Bad facts : I got injuried a lot. Females still played me a lot. Indeed I realized females are cruel but I still love them. This might be the proof we don’t chose our sexual orientation haha. Then, I couldn’t train properly from Sept to Dec. Oh, I can’t listen anymore to : Nicki, Kehlani, Rihanna or Cardi B. “More life” or “Views from the 6″ are albums I can’t listen to anymore. Well, GOOD FACTS now ! : Got a karate gi from J. (outstanding move), I put the young bloods in high school at Tekken and mangas haha. I met 80′s family and it was like a dream and I’m sure I got luckied in another dimension haha. 80 and 90 are still close to perfection in my eyes. 30 is still 30, with good and bad moods. I’m in peace with the sensei. I also received one of the best gift of my life. I learned that I was able to train by myself thanks to my power of mind !  To finish, I saw that I was able to forgive and still give love, even if it was pointless and too late.

Well, 2019 has already started and this will sure be a hell of a ride (January was ... special) as now I’m like on some quicksand shit. Let’s go ! And let’s not forget those 2018 that marked this year and I’ll surely be listening to in a decade (you need to know that I still listen to all the songs in the previous sum ups !). Enjoy :)

2018 Playlist

Dvsn - The morning after

Youv Dee - Opening

Tory Lanez - 48 floors

Roy Woods - Instinct feat MadeInTYO

XXXTENTACION - SAD!

Damso - Smog X Kyle - Ikuyo

Dosseh - Cœur de pirate X Guordan Banks - Keep you in mind

Marwa Loud - Je voulais (feat Laguardia)

Bazzi - Honest X Omar Kadir - The last thing I do

Oboy - Nuit X NAV - What I need

The Magician - Love break feat Hamza

Dinos - Les pleurs du mal

⚡ Dinos - Helsinki X Logic - The Glorious Five X Laylow - Digitalova ��

(Albums :6lack - East Atlanta love letter X Juice WRLD & Future - Wrld on drugs X Tory Lanez - Love me now & memories don’t die)

[globalmedialife]

                                                             LEBANON AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT?

A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY’S RISE FROM HELL.

In the early nineties, I found a book at the public library written by the late British journalistRobert fisk titled ; Pity the Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon.

Being a Lebanese American citizen, I couldn’t help myself, so I checked it out of the Library and read th entire book. It was a detailed account of the Lebanese civil war as well as other matters , but based on facts, Robert traveled to Lebanon and lived through it all.

After reading it ,a simple question came to my mind:

Who provides the human intelligence information gathering so that our policy makers can make sound, logical decision away from emotions, especially in the Middle East.

What concerns me is the Middle East and especially Lebanon. I wish I can still limit my thinking to Lebanon, but now this tiny country, my birth place, where my family still olives, where my ancestors are ,is a part of an axis. The Lebanese people cannot separate themselves from the struggles that are going around them in Syria, Iraq and Palestine/Israel. Lebanon is still realing from the burden refugees , from Google:

July 31, 2019, 3:39 PM Since 2011, Lebanon has taken in 1.5 million Syrian refugees. Officially, the country’s policy has been to host them until the war in the neighboring country has ended. In reality, it has recently started coercing them to leave.

Lebanon also hosts more than 17,000 refugees of Iraqi, Sudanese and other origins, and more than 200,000 palestinian refugees under UNRWA’s mandate. The presence of such a large refugee population in a small country facing an economic crisis, high unemployment, pressure on infrastructure, and environmental challenges increasingly risks . (Google search 10/02/2021).

The new government of Najib Mikati promises the poor Lebanese people some releif, but what releif is about to arrive when the root causes of corruption, political elitism/nepotism, and an old ragged constitution based on religious divisions can offer the Lebanese anything other than temporary releif from oppression and victimization.

When will the USA that delegated France of dealing with the Lebanese crisis that were started frst by the maximum pressure policies during the Trump era to theoretically according to the brilliant minds of the Trump white house and staff, back then to squeeze the life on the environment of Hezbollah causing Lebanon to implode form within, and cause a civil war that will uproot Hezbollah out of Lebanon.

To increase the pressure Lebanese bankers stole all deposits of Lebanese people, which no can be done without the knowledge and consent of us authorities since the Lebanese banking system, including the Central Bank Of Lebanon, is tied to American banking and the SWIFT network. That in addition to the depreciation of the Lebanese Lira, up to 19.000 Liras to the US dollar. The formation of the government caused the dollar to drop ( as of today 10/2/2021 one USA dollar equals 1505.70 Lebanese Liras.

This caused the Lebanese tremendous hardships since essential goods, including food, that had to be imported and paid for with US dollars became very expensive. The result was massive shortages in critical supplies including medical supplies and medications, which means there is no official estimate how many Lebanese people died from hunger or the lack of medications.

So for those advocates of the maximum pressure policy, whether it is towards Lebanon or any third world country, the American people must know that it is the people of these countries that pay the price not the rulers, and as far as Hezbollah in Lebanon, they are just fine, they weren’t affected with any policies, since they are an independent country, that has it own economy, with the support of Iran of course, as the whole world knows.

The US government officially supports Lebanon and urges reforms and rooting out corruption, but at the same time corrupt Lebanese officials stash the Lebanese people’s money in American and French banks, as well as other offshore banks etc...We pick and choose who’s Lebanese official we expose his or her corruption based on their political affiliation or whether it agrees with “our” interests. Then how can Lebanon rid itself of corruption while the superpowers of the world provide heavens for the Lebanese and other third world corrupt officials?

About two years ago I emailed president Trump and presented my argument for a strong prosperous Lebanon with American and international focus on massive infrastructure projects that will employ the youth , supplying them with wages that they can sustain their families on. I also argued that this will guide them away from terrorist activities militias and other criminal activities. I also argued that a prosperous Lebanon, and well armed /equipped Lebanese armed forces is the best guarantee for Israel’s safety since that is the always the primary concern of the White House.

I also indicated that as ling as the Palestinians do not have a homeland, and they are refugees all over there will never be peace in the Middle East, as I am sure all sane minds in Israel who are away from racism have finally realized. That days is coming, since I personally beleive that the laws of physics apply to foreign policy, and that when you toss a marble in stainless steel bowl, it will revolve all around it, but will finally settle in the middle-if the bowl is perfectly designed and manufactured, but since perfection belongs only to God, it is our task, and your task foreign policy makers to keep adjusting that bowl until it is perfect, relying on credible, signal and human intelligence, not on so called Middle East experts, or a couple of guys that go camping in the desert for two weeks.

[jodiwatson]

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Answering Questions About Turkey - Part 1

We get a lot of questions about Turkey – I’ll use this post to answer some of them. Better yet, come visit sometime and experience it for yourself!

Turkish Flag

How did you decide on Turkey?  Answered in an earlier, separate post here 🙂

Are you allowed to buy property in Turkey?  Yes, we can and we have. It’s not very common to finance property purchases. Most people buy their homes with cash. We hired a Turkish lawyer, named Cihat (pronounced Jihad – same meaning!) who helped us navigate the legalities and questions of property ownership. Unfortunately, we can only stay for 90 days at a time on a tourist visa for a total of 180 days/year (90 days in, at least 90 days out). So far, this works great for us as we dodge the hurricane season in Mexico. It’s quite onerous to get a residence permit to live in Turkey full-time. Like in the US, if you are foreign-born, there are many hurdles and requirements for us to stay longer. Also, similarly to the US, you can buy property, but it doesn’t qualify you to stay longer. Also, like in the US, we could come and stay “illegally” (beyond our 90 days), but when we left and tried to return, we would likely get hassled and maybe not allowed back in the country (not a chance we want to take). Although we can buy a house here, you are not allowed to buy a car unless you have a residence permit, so we rent a car (for about $8/day) while we are here.

How does the current economy and Lira free fall impact you?  The currency here is called the Lira. Currently, the lira falling is a good thing for us. We have a local, Turkish bank account, but mostly we transact in dollars, so it’s actually better for us. When we arrived, the lira was about 3.5 lira: 1 dollar and now it’s almost 7. We try to keep dollars as long as possible and exchange when we need them. Interestingly, even though Turkey takes MasterCard and Visa, many businesses reject our US cards as their chip readers won’t accept our cards. It’s extremely frustrating, and it prevents us from leveraging the exchange rate but also requires us to use our Turkish account or liras. Also, most places, unless you’re in a posh hotel, won’t take American Express, and many stores don’t even know what it is. In the long run, a stable Turkish economy will be better for us as we own a home here and want to see the community thrive and appreciate in value. We use TransferWise to move money from our US account to our Turkish account. The transfer fees are reasonable, and it’s fast and easy with an app on our phones.

Turkish Lira

What about the politics and president of Turkey?  It’s best not to discuss them.

What’s the language and are you learning it?  The language is Turkish – it’s a beautiful language that has more in common with romance languages, like French, and none of the harsh or guttural sounds of Arabic. My Turkish is very rusty; I understand a lot of it, and I can shop and get along pretty well at a high level, but I still can’t speak conversationally. I can follow along, but I lack the ability to say too much in response, which is frustrating! It’s definitely improved with time here. Many people here don’t speak English, so we blunder along, try as we can, and use Google Translate when we get stuck! I think for our trip next year, we’ll spend time using Babbel or taking an intensive language course to jumpstart our learning. There is nothing more humbling and makes you more empathetic to people living or traveling in the USA, trying to speak English, than when the shoe is on the other foot!

Panoramic of our neighbors – as seen from our back balcony

What’s your neighborhood like?  Our total community is ~30 buildings with ~70 separate homes built as townhouses. Most people own 1 building, but we split ours with our friend who lives next door. The busiest we have ever seen it was during a national holiday a couple of weeks ago, but even still, our neighborhood was only about 30% full. We are in a separate little area with only 7 homes, and we call it the G7 as we are a fairly international group. All but one house was full during the holiday – it was great fun hanging out with everyone, sharing meals, and working together to make improvements.

Who are your neighbors?  Most everyone is Turkish, but they either live abroad or work abroad. Two of our neighbors are Americans (living in Turkey & in the UK), one family lives in Brussels (an engineer & an anesthesiologist), one family lives in Ankara (retired ministry of tourism & a librarian), one family lives in Istanbul (a gynecologist & an engineer), one family lives in Istanbul (professor & Turkish think tank)…all professionals, and all of them speak *some* English. (They are very patient with us!) There are quite few kids here, too, which is really fun to see the energy and diversity of our community; watching them grow up year after year will be really fun. We have a beautiful swimming pool, and the beach is about a 2 minute walk away – complete with electricity (when it works), lounge chairs, a fresh water shower and palapas.

Who takes care of everything there?  There is a guy, Mustafa, who lives here full-time, in a little house with a bunch of chickens. He is our on site guardian, does odd jobs, keeps the pool clean and does general maintenance. We also have a building site manager, who is accountable to a board of directors and who is supposed to run the bigger systems like solar and water (which don’t work great….). But, we are really on our own for repairs and landscaping. Part of this is because we are still a new development that hasn’t received all the rights of a city property – this will likely come in time.

Can you find everything in Turkey, like in the US?  Yes and no. Generally, there are specific stores for each category of goods. If you need electric, you have to visit the electric store. If you need plumbing, you have to visit the plumbing store….and so on.  There are big chain stores ala Home Depot and IKEA in larger cities but not near where we live. There are two grocery chains here (Migros & Carrefour) that are starting to carry more than just food, but in general, when running errands, we have to plan all day for a minimum of 6 stops!

Pharmacies – are prescriptions hard to refill?  Pharmacies are plentiful here, but limited to generic drugs or alternatives. For example, we can’t find Benadryl here, but they have an antihistamine equivalent, and my branded contact lens solution is readily available. I take a migraine pill that costs me about $20/pill in the USA with insurance, but here, I pay the equivalent of $1/pill – no prescription required! Natural treatments like Arnica are easy to find, and tampons are nearly impossible to find. It is related to a holdover custom from the muslim culture of revering virgins (seriously). I remember this being the case when I lived here 30 years ago, but I expected it would have changed by now (it hasn’t).

Are you in a safe area?  Despite what you read on the news, which is largely sensational and focused on small areas, most of Turkey is very safe, and yes, we are also in a safe area. There is and has been violence in Turkey, but we stay vigilant and try to blend in and not put ourselves in uber-tourist places with a lot of people. We have a full-time caretaker who lives here year round, and he watches the place. There are also a few dogs that live here, and they are quite protective of the neighborhood and people roaming around at night. The only thing we have to watch out for are scorpions and wild boar! 🙂 There are immigration patrols that we meet on the highway from time to time, and recently, we have seen military helicopters flying over our beach, presumably looking for refugees since we are so close to Greece (the closest entry point to the EU). The immigration road blockades generally wave us through once they see we are foreigners or Americans. For this reason, you must always carry your passport when traveling around the country.

What’s your 3-6 month plan?  We will be in Turkey for just under 90 days until the first of October when our visa expires, and then we will island hop around the Greek islands for a few weeks, landing back in the states in time for the midterm elections in early November. We plan to be back in Mexico at the end of November, visiting the Copper Canyon with friends. We’ll spend December seeing family and friends (Arizona, Sun Valley, Portland) and then back to Mexico where our sailing season will start again in earnest. We’re tentatively planning to sail south to La Paz or Puerto Vallarta from January thru early March to avoid the heavy “Northers” before sailing back up into the Sea of Cortez for a few months before the next hurricane season. We both are likely to travel back and forth to the US during this time for work, and Jodi may come back to Turkey for a month in Spring to check on the house and do some weeding and spring planting.

When will you be back in the US?  Sometime in late October/early November, 2018. We hope to come back to Turkey for another extended visit in 2019 – again, during hurricane season in Mexico.

What’s the food like in Turkey?  In a word, amazing. Some of the best cuisine in the world. Not heavy like Greek food but fresh, whole foods grown in volcanic soil and rich in color and nutrients. Lots of fresh fruit (melons, peaches, nectarines, plums, figs, apricots) and vegetables (tomatoes – okay, a fruit, squash, beans, cucumbers, lettuces), 100s of varieties of olives and cheese (I counted more than 40 types of “white cheese” at the grocery store the other day), legumes (chickpeas, lentils, white beans) meat and fish/seafood (although we don’t really eat these anymore), and the government subsidized recipe for white bread is divine (and costs no more than about 50 cents). My favorite is breakfast, which is generally cheese, tomatoes, olives, cucumbers, honey, bread, and jam. Alcohol is easier to buy than it used to be (albeit very expensive for out of country brands – a small bottle of Absolut Vodka is $20), and Turkey’s wine industry is growing fast (high-end bottles costing between $5-15). Efes Beer is Turkey’s national pilsner; it’s cheap & delicious ($2/bottle).

Which do you prefer – the Aegean or Mediterranean?  Turkey is one of only three countries in the world that straddles more than one continent (Russia and Azerbaijan are the others). Turkey is on the European and Asian continents. We live on the Aegean, but both seas are beautiful. If you look on Google Earth, you can see that the Aegean is a bit more green and mountainous than the Med, but both have crystal clear blue waters, and most of the beaches are small pebbles vs. sand. We are closer to a few Greek islands than we are to mainland Turkey.

What’s your typical day like?  See next post – Part 2! 🙂

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On The Ethereum Protocol

The function of this digital ledger is, in actual fact, pretty much identical to a standard ledger in that it data debits and credits between individuals. Earlier than knowing what BCH, BTC, ETH and etc. is, let's first understand what cryptocurrency is. That's the reason cryptocurrencies are free of many transaction and alternate charges and stands as a chance to create the primary actually international medium of trade. Normally, the miners who "uncover" a new block get 12.5 newly mined Bitcoins (this quantity will get halved once in 4 years) plus some roughly 3-10 Bitcoins from the users who made payments - the transaction charges. Verge is a decentralized forex designed for users who value privateness. As a consequence of this I charge their business case robust, they are going to rise greatly in value resulting from this. A future in which what cash is will change, however the WHO behind it, in their eyes will not (that is Ripple and other coins embraced by banks and bank card corporations). In listening to about it, most tales which can be talked about contain somebody shopping for Bitcoin years in the past solely to now develop into wealthy by promoting them off. I’ll explain why not in what was my upcoming article, but is now wanting more like a white paper!

Integrated Technology: This know-how has an integration with media sites for social interplay like Twitter, Fb, Reddit, and many others. This may keep connected one with their identified-ones. Once the number has reached 21 Million, no more Bitcoins will be made and therefore, inflation is kept out. However, the fascinating thing about having almost all the provision on the market, is that the value of Quark will stabilize a lot a lot quicker than Bitcoin. Nakamoto designed bitcoin to be deflationary -- artificially limiting the availability of bitcoin to 21 million, forever. I provide just a few options which Bitcoin traders may consider at the top of the article (titled, Conclusions and Choices). So Iran has to supply some type of bonus or decrease oil prices to make them return to its oil. Or it might have one thing to do with the fact that bitcoin just isn't a unit of account (even if it is a medium of alternate, costs are often denominated in USD).

Nonetheless, ought to anybody proceed have any questions for cryptocurrency news news. It has been a good year for bitcoin buyers but a horrible one for those who hoped that the cryptocurrency would change into the de facto tender for the internet. The good news from the admin center that LCF Coin free registration period extended until January 7, 2017. However the sooner the higher, quicker also enter your knowledge within the system. We all need Bitcoin value advance and sooner would be higher than later. A mockup of "Bitcoin surge pricing", inspired by Uber. (When this occurs to stocks, I count on Bitcoin and different cryptos to learn). Many traders consider this as a brief-time period recreation due to the volatility of Bitcoin and different cryptocurrencies. The difficult bit about Bitcoin is that its enthusiasts have to be taught to stay in the true world first. The primary responder may be within the medical profession, the firefighting profession or the ambulance driver. $2.Three million dollars inside the primary 12 hours of the campaign.

They (presumably) care about the buying energy of these future dollars. $1.2 trillion cash folks foreign money was in blood circulation. Its validity as money regresses to nothing specific, although an Italian may think it more stable and valid as cash than the outdated lira, because it has a major aspect of the outdated Deutsch mark in it. I believe not, so watch out. ALL. Most people assume that WHAT cash is or isn’t is what led to its failure. Particular person Traders: They often commerce utilizing their very own money or use different people’s money to invest in Day Trading. Nevertheless, simply sooner or later before Vargas’ announcement, the Venezuelan Constituent Nationwide Meeting declared the cryptocurrency illegal. Cryptocurrency is not backed by banks; it's not backed by a government, however by an extremely complicated association of algorithms. As well as, data is extra priceless the much less individuals have it. Interviewer: Do you might have any recommendation for the readers about subjects which get views and how a lot you receives a commission for them?

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Workstation Vs Desktop Computer

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1000 Question Survey pt. 4

Money 301.) Do you have a job?: Yeah

302.) What do you do?: I'm an administrative assistant in property management for a company called Savills

303.) Does your boss like you?: Pretty sure, yeah

304.) How much do you get paid?: £15k per annum

305.) Do you have your own bank account?: Yeah

306.) Do you have a credit card?: No, a debit card

307.) A checkbook?: No

308.) Are you a big spender?: Not really, I can be but only on things like food haha

309.) Do you go to the mall a lot?:  I walk round on my lunches some days

310.) In an average week, how much money do you spend?: I'd say like £200 average including getting to work and stuff

311.) Do you know how much a peso would be worth in the United States today?: No idea

312.) How about a Franc?: Also no idea

313.) Do you really care?: Not massively

314.) Do you like your job if you have one?: It's okay, it gets pretty boring and sometimes stressful but it's good enough money for me to be able to do the things I want to do

315.) If you don’t have one, do you wish you had one?:  -

316.) Do you wish you had more money?: I'm doing alright with what I've got, the only thing is not being able to afford to go to Disney World, but I could save for a long while

317.) Why?: Because if I really need money for something I've learnt to be patient and save up for it

318.) Would you rather be filthy rich with no friends or dirt poor with tons of friends and a dog?: It depends, I'm not rich but I don't really have any friends aside from my boyfriend, and I'm cool with not having friends based on the fact it's because I got rid of the bad people from my life, however if I had genuine friends I'd rather that and be dirt poor, plus the dog sounds dope but I'd hate if I was too poor to be able to look after it

319.) Do you have a cool wallet?: I don't know what defines cool but I like it

320.) What is the largest amount of money you ever had in your possession at one time?:  I'm not sure, maybe when I changed over a load of money to Turkish Lira before I went on holiday, I can't remember how much that was though

321.) What are you wearing?: Black tights, a stripey grey, black and red dress, flat black slip on shoes, my watch and my Pandora bracelet

322.) What are you listening to?: Nothing, just whoever is talking on the phone at work when somebody rings up

323.) Who are you talking to?: Jesse over WhatsApp, whoever rings at work and whoever might walk in or out as I'm on the reception desk

324.) What are you doing other than filling out this survey?: Pretty much what I just said above

325.) How is your hair?: I plaited it last night when it was wet so it's sort of wavy but it hadn't dried properly so it doesn't really look how I wanted to, sort of frizzy

326.) Do you have anything on your feet?: Tights and slip on shoes

327.) Are you cold or warm?: It's more cold than warm but I'm not like shivering

328.) Do you have any jewelry on?: My Pandora bracelet

329.) Do you have any makeup on?: Yeah

330.) Name 4 things laying around your desk:

Tissues

Bubblegum scented hand sanitizer

Chocolate

My work notebook

331.) Pick up a book laying near you and type a random sentence from a random page: "I was away on an excursion for the last couple of days"

332.) Open a cabinet near you and describe what’s in it:  A make-up bag, a lanyard, lip balm, Vaseline, a mirror, bandages, a defender alarm, a phone case, a shoe polisher, Fifty Shades of Grey, a nail file

334.) Should you be doing something else now?: I probably shouldn't be on this but there's nothing I really should be doing

335.) Why aren’t you doing it?:  -

336.) Is your room a mess now?: No

337.) Is your mom nagging at you to clean it?: I don't live with my mom

338.) What are any people around you doing?: There's two guys trying to fix the lift at work

339.) Who are you thinking about right now?: Jesse

340.) Are you doing anything illegal?: No

Looks 341.) How much time do you spend on your appearance in the morning?:  Before work it's usually about half an hour

342.) Do you wear makeup regularly?: Yeah

343.) If so, what?: Primer, foundation, eyebrow powder, concealer, face powder, mascara - and sometimes I'll wear bronzer, highlighter, eyeshadow, eyeliner and lipgloss or lipstick

344.) Are your looks important to you?: In some ways

345.) Do you want to change the way you look?: Yeah, I want to get a full fringe but I feel like I'd get annoyed with it and I want a slimmer face too

346.) What would you change?: ^

347.) How do you usually wear your hair?: Most days for work it's either in a plait or I'll have plaited it before hand and then took it out so it's wavy and some days it's in a ponytail, if I'm going out on the weekend I might curl it and sometimes I straighten it

348.) Do you dye your hair?: Yeah

349.) Do you straighten your hair?: Sometimes

350.) What color is your hair naturally?: Mousey brown

351.) What is your eye color?: Some days they look green and others they look brown or a mix of the two

352.) Do you wear colored contacts?: No

353.) Do you look like your parents?: Yeah, I think more like my dad than my mom

354.) Is that good or bad?: I guess it's good, haha, I don't really have much opinion on it

355.) Do you turn strange colors sometimes?: I wouldn't say strange, I just go red a lot

356.) Why?: I go red if I'm hot or cold or embarrassed or stressed, it's my reaction to a lot of things haha

357.) Do you have any piercings?: No

358.) Any tattoos?: Two, one on my arm that says 'wildflower' and one of my ankle of Tinkerbell

359.) Ever gotten a makeover?: No

360.) Do you experiment a lot with new looks?:  Sometimes I'll try a new make-up look or wear something a little different but not really

Travel 361.) Have you ever been out of the country?: Yeah

362.) Out of your state?: I don't live in a state, but I've been out of my county, is that like our equivalent?

363.) Out of your city?: Yeah

364.) Do you go on a vacation every year?: Usually, even if it's only in the same country I'll try to get a break somewhere

365.) If so, to where and for how long?: I've been to Turkey, Spain, France, last year I went camping a couple of times just in this country and I'm going away in this country this year

366.) Have you ever ridden in a plane?: Yeah

367.) In a boat?: Yeah

368.) Do you visit relatives that live far away from you at all?: Not really anymore, I have been over to Devon and to Hereford as I have relatives there but I usually just see them when they come down here now, and my dad lives in Hinckley but that's not too far so I try visit him every month or so

369.) ON average, every week how many miles do you travel?: If I go from Jesse's to work that's about 5 and a half miles so there and back about 11, if I go from mine to work it's about 9 miles so 18 there and back, I usually go from mine to work twice in the week and Jesse's three times so that's 69 (ha), then on Saturday we will usually go from mine to town and back so that's another 18 making it 87, and Sunday we will go from mine to Jesse's which is about 10 miles, so almost 100 miles altogether

370.) Do you drive?: No

Cars 371.) Favorite car?: Old Beetles

372.) Color for that car?: Navy blue

373.) Do you have your license?: I have a provisional license but not a proper one

374.) Permit?: No

375.) Do you like fast cars?:  Not bothered

Sleep 376.) How long do you sleep each night on average?: About 6-7 hours

377.) Is this enough?: I never feel like I've had enough sleep haha

378.) Do you dream every night?: Not every night, or at least I don't remember them all

379.) Describe a weird dream you had: The last dream I remember most that was pretty weird was it was just me looking at this really tall, thin, extremely pale woman. She had white long hair but she either didn't have a face or I don't remember her face, she had a long white dress on but the dress started to become soaked with blood, but didn't seem to be coming from any kind of wound she had, and it was spreading across her whole dress and dripping from it, that's all that happened and then I woke up jumping and feeling scared and confused

380.) Do you sleep in awkward positions?: Sometimes

381.) Do you sleep in school?: No

382.) If so, do you wake up with different patterns all over your face from whatever you were laying on?: -

383.) What position do you usually wake up in?: I'm usually either on my side or on my front

389.) Does your alarm clock wake you up?: Yeah

390.) What kind of alarm clock do you have?:  I just use the one on my phone

Going Out 391.) How often do you go to parties?: Not very often

392.) Are you a crazy party hopper?: No

393.) Do you like wild parties with lots of people?: I usually just end up feeling a bit overwhelmed or get anxious

394.) Are you a social butterfly?: I don't think so

395.) Do you go clubbing?:  Yeah

396.) Ever been drunk?: Yeah

397.) Ever get kicked out of a party?: No

398.) For what?: -

399.) Do you throw a lot of parties?: No

400.) Do you go to the mall a lot?: I'll walk round on my lunch some days or might go on the weekend if there's something I need to get

401.) Do you go with a lot of friends?: No

402.) Do you like going to arcades?: Yeah they can be pretty fun

403.) Is DDR a cool game?: Don't know what that is

404.) What about those racing games?: They're okay

405.) How many parties have you been to in the last 3 months?: I don't know what properly counts as a party because I've been clubbing and I've been to a couple of family gatherings around Christmas and New Year but they're not like proper parties

406.) How many formal dances have you been to in the last year or so?: None

407.) Do you dress up when you go out?: Sometimes

408.) Do you go to see a lot of movies on the weekend?: Jesse and I will usually go like every other weekend, depending if something decent is on

409.) Who has the best parties?: I'm not sure, the ones at sixth form were pretty fun at the time, but I usually just go clubbing now, I enjoy Snobs and Popworld