February 13
Yah, well I'm just trying to arrange a trip with David in the summer precisely so I can spend some time with him. When I'll be in Prague I'll have lots of friends to see so not much quality time with David, so this trip will be a good opportunity to get a once a year blast of time with him. And I invited Ilona too so that David will feel more comfortable about the idea and be more likely to say yes, but I wanted to make certain things clear to Ilona that I wouldn't want her around if she will be behaving a certain way. Long story, but basically it was nice with Ilona for a while, and then half way through our relationship it occurred to me that she wanted something more permanent, which is when I told her I wasn't interested in that. I guess North American upbringing is different than Czech. For me, it is rather normal that someone might have different girlfriends before deciding to settle down one day. Anyway, Ilona seems to live in this fantasy of home that I will somehow change my mind and settle down with her. I don't even want to talk about it, but there are many things about her personality which really irritate and which I find in a lot of Czechs and which I'm rather sick of. But I email with David about different things and am trying to break him away from her, otherwise she will slow his growth I believe. Not break away from her completely, but develop some thinking for himself, and I think it will be good for him to spend time with you. Hopefully it will work out. He needs some character police around him, and I think the only thing he learns from Ilona is laziness and mazanost. But I think my emailing with him is good, and think we can discuss heavier things if he wants to. Otherwise, I really won't have much other opportunity with him. We'll see how it works out. Ilona can be right that I am crazy, but everything is relative. We can have a long philosophical discussion on what normal is, but I believe the most general definition of normal is by uncreative people who are too scared to discover things and live an interesting life, and they all live in a little box worried what others think about them, and they all collect around some common denominator and call it normal. For me that is boring, repressive and like giving up on life. So as I age I find I am deviating further from this "normal", getting more eccentric, but each tree continue to grow according to its particular identity. Only most people don't grow that way because they are used to fitting into some accepted norm. I see the same mentality wherever I go. Everyone wears a towel around their head, or this, or that, and then one person comes from a different culture they are shocked and scared. Such little people. Anyway, I wouldn't even really talk to Ilona if it weren't for David. Nice emailing with David , which I read below. Still don't have too much work, but it comes in little spurts. And I seem to be losing motivation. Kind of hard because when I move somewhere else it takes me a while to get into a good routine. And hard to motivate myself so much when I am not very clean. Long story, but I'm adjusting to the new lifestyle, learning, and trying to improve thngs in the meantime. My project in this town where i am now is to fix up the inside and make it cleaner and more homey, finishing the carpentry and other stuff, and then I will drive to the nature peninsula and hang out there for a while. Was in the Greek part of Cyprus recently to get a stamp in my passport and met a Slovakian girl. that was nice. No big aspirations, but I think I'll drive back there on my birthday and celebrate in that bar, and then ask her if she wants to go hiking. there are a lot of nice hiking trails in the mountainous part of this island and I think she was talking about the Tatras and that she likes hiking, so it would be nice to discover the island with someone. Otherwise, I don't have any aspirations for a travel femail friend, because a very difficult position to fill. But it could get interesting at Kadir's when I get there in a month or two. Lots of backpackers go through there and I might be able to hook up with some ozzie chick. I was there a few days and already hooked up with one girl a bit, but wouldn't be interested in anything more with her. But by the end of April
Kadir's Treehouses should be in full swing and i think I'll enjoy hanging out there for a while. lateroo
HI!!!!! SO GREAT TO HEAR FROM YOU!!!! I never got any emails or sms from you recently. This is first one in few months to be honest.
cau dudess, at the internet cafe and feel like responding "live" rather than offline later. I think you missed a lot of my grill parties, and I always enjoyed organising them, although towards the end of my stay I only organised them for my close friends, rather than totally "open house" and "invite all", because it seems that a lot of people in Prague just don't really care much, maybe just show up because something is free, kind of trash my place and I'm forced to spend much of the next day cleaning everything up. But with close friends everyone brings something, or pitches in with some help, or is generally more respectful, and the atmosphere is nice and not so loud. But I look forward to being able to organise something similar while travelling, since I have everything with me for that: portable volleyball net, propane grill, kitchen stuff, super stereo and musical instruments. So it would be cool to organise some bash outside in a field, or by the beach. I rather enjoy organising them. Greek Cyrpus compared to the Turkish part is like Switzerland compared to the Czech Republic po revoluce. Turks are kinda pigs and there's garbage everywhere, but they're nice. They seemed a bit snobbish and rich when I was in the southern half of the island. Also, these "richer" countries can sometimes be more particular about a greasy van and guy like me camping for free by the ocean. Look forward to checking out the peninsula in the north east part, as it is supposed to be beautiful nature. But right now I wanna hang around this
Gazi Magusa whatever bigger town and fix up the truck a bit. Want to complete some carpentry work and make it nicer inside, so I feel more at home. But on the 23rd of this month I may dive back into Greece, to some small town Palmirini or something like that, which is about 35k from Lanarca, because when I was there last time I stumbled on some bar full of Rumanian, Bulgarian and Slavic chicks, and who else would I end up talking with all evening but a Slovakian chick. So I might go back there to celebrate my birthday, although the beer is so much more expensive. But also because I'd like to ask her if she wants to go hiking, cause I think she said she's into that and its certainly more fun with a chick than by oneself. There's supposed to be a bunch of cool hiking trails at the top of the mountain range in the middle of the island. So you got a dog eh? That bored, or practicing the baby thing, heh heh? Well, have a good one and love ya too banana.
Anyway, How have you been? I miss your parties!!! like grilling inside of your living room in February!!!! HA, so much fun. I have a puppy with me now, he travels with me all the time. I love Cyprus, I know it is a robbery to live there regarding the prices but once you figure where to go shopping and so it is ok. The northern part, i've only been to the northern part of Nicosia. I enjoyed it a lot. Last year I went 3 times. Last time i went it was before xmas. I like the climate, the food... lots of fish and vegetables and i love haloumi cheese!!! And people are nice too. Well, enjoy it there for me as well and let me know how it is going. If you are planning a trip to Larnaca anytime soon, let me please know as i may ask a favour. Thank you. Please take care and keep in touch...gotta go to feed the BEAST...his name is BOB and he is two months old welsh corgi! LuvYa, kveta
cool story dudess, and liked the pics. I think you are the only person I know who I'm jealous about what they are doing. The rest are settling into their suburban comfy and repetitive existence, basically the reason I left Canada in the first place that 15 years ago. Prague was fun for about 8 years, but then all the cool and adventurous people left and the remaining seemed to get all gossipy and settled into village life. Still more fun than a lot of cities, but I prefer my existence much more now. The biggest drag of it all is that I'm not making much money, so I have to carefully count my beer money, which hampers meeting people. Or paying gas and exploring nature more. So I tend to hang out in one place at a time and save up gas money to go elsewhere. Now I'm in Cyprus, which is a lot warmer than the mainland, so I'm happy about that. There are lots of ruins and nice nature on the island, and I can drive over to Greece to extend my stay in Turkey every time. So if I stay future winters in Europe, I think this is the place. Hanging out by some larger town, but on the outskirts on a secluded beach, and spending about a week or something buying material i can afford to fix up the truck a bit. Haven't done almost anything since I left Prague, and there's a lot of little beautification things which needs to be done. You know, like when you move into a new flat. You spend perhaps a year beautifying it until it has reached some perfect equilibrium, like that totalne zapicovany byt I used to live in on Luzicka. Then it just stays the same and stagnates for a decade or something until you unearth and make another move. Shit, I enjoy working with wood so much, if someone actually gave me enough for this clunker, I think I'd enjoy selling it and use the cash to make another one, almost making a second career out of it. But I'd need a few years with this one, until I got tired of it. On the other hand, it really was a big project to put it together, but I guess future ones would go faster, and I can unearth and enjoy variety that way. Otherwise, what concerns a backyard, unearthing and changing that requires only a quick cranking of the ignition, and I rather enjoy that sorta gypsey lifestyle. Have a good one and keep sending the pics. Reminds me of when I used to glacier and mountain hike in Alaska and the Yukon. And I got above the clouds like that a few times while treeplanting, although the chopper took care of that. Or perhaps I got as high as you in Whister BC during the summer, but the super fast gondola took care of most of that, and we just hiked the rest of the way. Have a good one.
so finally started working on the caravan truck again, and added sorta disco lights in the front cabin area. Want to add some other circuits of lights, for the closet area, and do a bit of work with wood. Depends on how much money I feel i can spend on this, and how long I want to hang around this town, but I found a nice secluded beach, and I've been wanting to work on the truck for quite some time, so we'll see. It's like beautifying a new house/flat you move into. Sometimes it just takes time. For a long time, not only did I not have the cash, but I felt psychologically drained from the experience, after rushing so much prior to my departure from Prague. But I want to make it more homey in here. Still need to put on some back windows, paint it, and all sorts of other stuff, but that will have to wait a while (already have the paint, but I need to repaint it in conjunction with changing the papers). But looking forward checking out the north east peninsula. Supposed to be really beautiful, and Turks from the city come to beach where I am now and leave all their garbage, so I´d rather be parked at a more secluded beach. And on the radio I heard something about "Cyprus´s best wifi provider", which made me think there could be wifi companies working on a national scale. Will look into it, and if it´s true, could be a better option then spending the gas money every day commuting to some internet café, where I pay by the hour. If that works out, I might find myself on a secluded beach with some wireless internet connection. That would be fantastic. I think within about five years wifi will be much more spread all over the world, so my travelling dream will be much more convenient. Anyway, the reason I´m writing this is because I was taking a second look at my online family tree. Today is Sunday, the day I force myself not to work (often rather painful) so I can read the bible and try to learn how to worship God more or something. I´ll often get ideas while reading and research them more, and today arguments were popping in my mind against Jews who feel confident they are God´s chosen people. Anyway, wanted to know how my Jewish thing is, so looked at my family tree and, according to mala Jana, my great great grandmother was a Jew. Have to admit I´m rather uncomfortable about the idea and didn´t even know I had Jewish blood in me until Jana told me. I feel uncomfortable about even mentioning it. Anyway, because Vlad was putting together a family tree, thought I´d show him how I set mine up (the Excel file), and could offer to help him with his if he likes. The advantage of such a simple Excel file is: 1) you can easily add pics, 2) link to other webpages with more information about each person, which in turn can link out to whatever 3) see the structure of the tree and add to it with ease, 4) use other sheets within the Excel file to start other trees, and link between them, so that by pressing on one link you are immediately zipped to another location, be it another cell on the same sheet, a cell on another sheet, or a cell in a sheet on a different Excel file. If you want, I can make one for Krizan if you send me pics (scanned) and a storey, as Jana did. Or make any corrections or additions to the Kosman part, although I´m sure that history won´t interest either of you. But I thought the structure of the Excel file itself might interest Vladimir. Potentially gruesome computer tech stuff for ya, but it´s definitely useful for the purpose of a family tree. At some point I want to approach all the Kosmans I find on the net and see if we are remotely related, and start expanding the history outwards. Could prove interesting. Well, adios!
before I left Prague I surfed the internet a bit looking for English speaking churches I could visit while travelling, and with moderate success, I assumed I would be able to find something while travelling. But that has not worked out, because I find myself quite busy during the week, and once Sunday rolls around, I'll just read the bible etc. So I turned to looking for
Christian reading, since I've read the bible so many times it is getting repressively boring, and I feel it is good to get different perspectives, like listening to a good preacher. To enlighten me on the meaning of some scripture which would probably not come to me if I read it a million times. Anyway, attached is the first inspiring reading I found. A challenging message, and I can send you more if you like, because I assume you too might be too busy to go to church, especially when it is so difficult to find a preacher with a powerful and inspiring message to make the exercise worthwhile. I marked in red those parts I wanted to reflect and focus on for myself, and a letter I wrote to one friend which you can ignore at the bottom. My work situation is rather frustrating. I've never had such a long dry spell. Some
Czech
translation agencies were giving me some work for a while, but stopped for various, what I consider, rather silly reasons. I've approached a bunch of Czech companies with practically negligible response, I'm approaching companies on the internet, I'm continuing with my seo work, although the results of that take time to take effect, and in between I get little spurts of work just enough to help me get by, with the exception that every few months I have to borrow from someone else. It's getting a bit depressing and sometimes I wonder if God is against me. I could go into a long explanation of how I tried this and that in Prague, but I feel I wasn't productive there and had too many temptations I wanted to get away from. Without the rent or electricity my expenses are lower, and I feel I can serve God through the internet, or to people while I'm travelling just as if I were in Prague. Anyway, Prague and Czech was simply getting too depressing for me, and I made my decision to leave. If God gave me something interesting and productive to do there, at least I would have something to consider against. Anyway, please pray for me. I'm trying hard on many fronts and don't know why it has to drag out so long like this. The company is set up for expansion and all I need is some work to get things moving. It sucks on that front, but I'm glad I have the beach and warm weather. Take careo
ahoj, the package left this aft., will take 5-9 days to arrive at the postovvice of your choice. Go and check it out often. It will probably arrive for your birthday:):):):), I know you donot care much but now when you are so much on your own you may like it that someone remembered. Also chick your bank account for a little change for good beer for your birthday.
Tankya muchly. Mostly looking forward to the salmon. Reminds me of BC and gives me happy fuzzy feelings. I like to eat it with squeezed lemon, lots and lots of diced green onions, and pepper. Nothing else, and this seems the best. Everything else doesn't seem to do it justice, and the above seems to bring out the flavour the most. Lately I've been getting into salad a lot. Easy to make, not expensive, and very healthy. I like how the veggies here are nice, robust and fresh, but dismayed that nowhere could I find juicy red tomatoes like I hoped. Maybe its just the globalisation issue, why everything has to taste like plastic. Guess I need to find a natural farmer and pay more or something, but at least tomatoes here taste almost as good as they do in Prague during the summer. Thanks for the cash. Starting to get depressed with my situation. The
seo/search engine work takes a long time to yield results, and will be good once/if I start to get a lot of hits. I am ready for expansion, after spending years setting up my new system, and now I just need some steady work so that I can continue to invest into looking for more customers.
I will send it Friday 16th so it is early for birthday but at least it will be there for the little
celebration. Tell me more about where you are, looking forward to your blobs.
Already started uploading the latest blob update, but the internet was very slow yesterday. Will try to finish it tomorrow, but I've put a whole bunch of new pages. The blob pages are starting to get near the top in some keywords, so hopefully I'll start getting good traffic for that as well. Right now in Cyprus and looking forward to leaving this beach. Tired of the Turk pigs who leave garbage everywhere. Such a beautiful beach destroyed by all this garbage. When it is not so bad I clean up the beach around where I like to park. Then on the weekends the Turks come and everywhere is cans of beer and plastic bottles. Really disgusting. Hopefully I'll find a small town with internet on the peninsula I want to go to. Or perhaps I'll be able to get wifi internet. That would be great, but its a lightly inhabited peninsula with lots of ruins and apparently nice nature, so we'll see. One day I'll meet a fisherman and ask for some tips. I've seen one person (Turks fish a lot with their families on the weekends, and bring out the bbq) with a plastic bottle with fishing line wrapped around it. They spun the lure with their right hand and then released it, and it got out pretty far from shore, so a bulky fishing rod is not necessary. Perfect for my small space. Put sand in the plastic bottle, and you can have several bottles sitting by the shore, running to the first one that starts moving. They did the same way in
Montenegro. Simple and genius. Just need to know what they use for lures. In Montenegro I think they just used chunks of bread. That will be healthy and super cheap, but not looking forward to gutting the fish.
We are leaving for Italy on SAturday 17th, be back on 24th. I will not be able to get to the internet unless I find some cafe there in the mountains. Wanted to buy a helmet but it is sooooooooo
uncomfortable and hot that I decided to be extra careful and forget the helmet. Do not plan to fall for another 15 years.
Falling is not something one can plan for, and the skull is very soft and fragile. I studied first aid for treeplanting and it is always the first thing we look at. Concussion is the most likely to lead to death. Either that or you can study Aikido and how to fall. After some Aikido a rolled out of an accident without even thinking, where naturally one will put their arms out and scrape their palms off. Ouch. You can roll out at fairly high speeds, and that way prevent your skull from smashing.
Weather here is like Vancouver but dry most of the time. 8-12 degrees but it is so dirty and smelly here that I am sick again, something is stuck in my throat and I feel like I am in the coal mines.
Heard it was supposed to be 22 tomorrow and today i was suntanning in shorts, while the Turks still fully dressed up in coats and long pants. I must have been an oddity, with my hot Canadian blood. When I get cash again, one expense is to get a decent fan for when it gets hot. Saw some marine ones that work on 12V. In
Croatia it was hell trying to sleep once it got too hot.
Looking forward to the sweet air of Vancouver.
I remember once on a ferry approaching Vancouver seeing a thick blanket of yellow smog. Cars do all that, although it seems clean once in the city. This is another reason why I left Prague, and the big cities. Heard of a Russian who slept in a forest in a little treehouse, is over a hundred and very healthy, where before he was constantly sick. There must be more than 600 chemicals in car exhaust, and I always remember how well I slept in the forest in Cesky Raj when camping on the weekend. I think I'm done with busy civilisation, and snobby cosmopolitan people. Always rushing everywhere. Rural people are so nice, relaxed and genuine. The Turks keep giving me their food and it is very nice. Looking forward to Kadir's once it warms up. Nice to party with young backpackers.
But there are not theaters, no balls and our friends are so boring and sedative and inactive that it drives us crazy. Here we drive THEM crazy
because nobody can keep up with us and our activities. But I am getting tired and
need some sleep and mountains and Italy will be perfect end of this social marathon visit. So Kajinku I think of you a lot, wish you all the best for your birthday and all your life and hope to see you soon. xxxxxxxxxxxxxooooooooooooomamamamamama
Me too. Hopefully we can hook up somewhere in Europe and plan things. I can arrange accommodation for you guys. Starting to map out Europe like I did
Cesky Raj. Too bad you didn't go with me once there. Very nice part of Czech and my favourite. Looking forward to checking out Moravia on my way back, but not sure how long I'll be in Czech. I think sometime around June. laterama!
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good to hear from ya. Just read your last mail on my mobile and felt like writing back to you right away. Just finished watching the movie Blow with Johnny Depp and had to reflect on my life, and then read your letter. Feel like a little criminal going down Depp's path, but hope I can straighten it out. Funny I read your letter and you mentioned all those invoices just as I was reflecting on all these things. Well, just for fun, because I'm here on my own in my tin box parked on a beach in
Cyprus with no one to talk to... Got tired of the
Czech
Republic government charging me through their teeth for taxes, and Czechs ripping me off at every corner, and everyone being dishonest. I think one of the reasons it has taken me so long to build up a successful agency (still not there yet) is because I'm so honest. The occasional customer doesn't pay me and I spend a year grovelling like a dog to make sure everyone after me gets paid. Not how many agencies operate. But I have a beautiful reputation on the net and all my translators love me, which is more important for me and going to sleep with a clean conscience than hoarding a bunch of doe. And every year I have to try a new accountant, and every year the new one screws me over again, leading to further delays in payment of taxes, and fines and penalties, and interest on the fines, and penalties on top of the interest. It was ridiculous. And one year I got a big gig, and they were going to pay me around
November, but if I didn't spend the money on business by the end of that year, the government was going to take sixty percent. So that was the last straw and I moved my company offshore. Beliz in fact. Corporation. I'm 'just' a director hired by this company called KENAX Corporation, in charge of controlling the bank accounts and sending myself money to different countries to some guy Karel Kosman with a Canadian passport. Nice guy in fact. So if you meet the new housemates, you can tell them to go camping and make a pleasant little bonfire with all those invoices. I'm done with
the
Czech Republic and all those criminals. Speaking of criminals, I set up a roaming account with t-mobile and they started sending me invoices for 200 Euro. On two occasions was forced to set up a local sim card in two different countries. I know how much internet data I use through that mobile and it became very obvious to me that there is some hacker in t- mobile
Czech who is thieving from me and who knows who else. Wrote the headquarters of t-mobile telling them this, and where they can place their last two invoices. A nation of thieves and I'm practically ashamed I was born in that country. The new tenants should not accept any registered mail on my behalf, but what is done is done. I'll only whip through the country once a year to reregister the vehicle (a criminal enterprise in itself) and sign in for another year of health insurance. Trying to pay up everything and come clean, but I refuse to pay the t-mobile bills. Long story, but I haven't had much work either for a long time and getting a bit depressed about it lately. So we're two old farts who lived like young bucks in the old Chapeau Rouge days, when we felt invincible and the world and women lay before us. I'm starting to feel lazy and running outa steam myself. Sports usually kept me more motivated, but without a convenient shower, I won't create a sweat. Hoping that things will change in the summer, or if I can get a hold of some tap water, which occasionally happens. Sorry to hear of your problems. You at least have a nice relationship with your kid? Hope everything turns out good for ya bud and we'll smoke a fatty when I whip through around June. Smoked only twice since I left. Maybe when I get to
Kadir's
Treehouses it'll be a bigger party. Need some work so I can enjoy myself more, but I'm happy to have escaped the cold and finally see some steady beach action in my life. If you're not busy and working when I swing through we can go on a little trip or something. Been fixing it up a bit lately, and put some cheesey flashy disco lights in the front cabin area. Good to hear from ya and hang in there bud. k
Of course its just a game U ..., but how do U e.g. call chess? Have U ever played?
Well, I've played this Nanuki icecream game starting many years ago, that's how it was introduced to me, and I'm used to calling it Pente. But I didn't study its history etc., so don't know who called it what first. Don't think there is any other name for chess than chess, unless one uses another language. Maybe Pente is the Italian name or something. I'm pretty good at chess and like the game a lot. Think I'll go to "Greece" tomorrow, for my birthday, and say hi to the Slovakian chick. Hopefully she'll be up for some hiking. Would like to check out this island more. Game attached.
Thanks for the paper - heavy duty stuff. I just read a bit and although dated, it seems to talk just the same to
Christians of today.
Yah, as I read deeper into it I realised it was getting pretty dated, but then would get back into
something more usable again. I liked the beginning, because it seemed to get deep into motivation, which I found good to reflect on. Down to the real core of things. Concerning below, for personal contact I have this marketing approach where people anywhere in the world can approach customers and they get a permanent commission on all work sent to me. Kenax can be like the engine, with the virtual office the core of everything, project managers, Czech to English translators, proofreaders and vettors etc. logging into it to exchange files and communicate with one another. Everyone working on different time zones to keep everything operating 24 hours a day. The marketing dude can set up an office and look like an agency, and just forward the files to us. They can put whatever markup they think they need or can get away with. I find my prices pretty competitive. But most people aren't interested in this commission thing and want so salary, so I guess this is something I'll get into in the future once I start getting a solid revenue stream. The important thing is that the scripts for the virtual office are developed and I can start expanding in this way. Now I am focusing on marketing, which I haven't ever, really, but it is just taking longer than I expected. I really enjoy the
seo stuff and am making slow progress. I guess it will just require time. For the God work, that's going slow too. Hard to find charities to get involved in while travelling. When I was in Prague it seemed impossible too. Not much room for volunteers and everyone seems only professional, and when I approached shelters for homeless children, because I've always enjoyed spending time with kids, everyone assumed I was a pervert or something. So I guess I'll have to stick to donating money over the web and focusing on my various web projects, and trying things occasionally on a local level. Well, thanks for the encouragement. Was getting depressed when I sent that letter, and feeling pretty
desperate. But at least my costs are pretty low at the moment. Just trying to accumulate some positive vibes.
I think it's your B-day today, right? I hope that not only today will be a special day for you but also days ahead will be filled with all good things!
Went to the Greek side, only 20km away, to where I met this Slovakian chick and partied with her a bit, but couldn't get cash out of the bank machine so only stayed a short while. She says she works seven days a week and maybe gets one day off a month, so my mission to ask her to go on hiking trips in the mountains failed, although she expressed interest in stuff like that. Got in touch with some hashers (the people who jog and drink beer), so maybe I could find some interested parties through that, otherwise I'll just go myself. It's a nice island nature wise, with lots of historical relics. The way things fall into place for me while travelling, I get strong messages that God is watching over me, but I always get nervous when the money starts running dry. I know I'm not supposed to waiver in doubt, but sometimes it just gets so
desperate I can't help but get depressed. But thanks for the encouraging words, I need them at this time. I just posted my latest travels, with lots of pictures of my drive across the southern Turkish coast. Lots of historical relics. I moved things to another location, so perhaps it will show up now on your browser.
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Otherwise I think I'll make a slide show movie, so I can always show you guys that. But I think the web pics are better because one can stare at the pics as long as they want. One reason why I'd like to be earning more is so that I can travel more, instead of counting pennies and feeling hunger pains in my stomach as I watch the gas meter bob its way down to zero. I enjoy checking out the varied nature, and relics are cool. Occasionally I go jogging through areas, which is nice, and decided I might get myself a paragliding thing. Seems like, if its windy enough, you can take off from the beach and go sailing around in the sky, and land where you want. So could be a great free way to explore area. When I get to Kadir's maybe I'll get some travellers to pitch into gas so we can explore Turkey together. Otherwise, I think my travel website will eventually get a lot of traffic, which will help me find fellow travellers, mostly during the summer. Take care and thanks for the encouraging words. Need them right now. lateronie
Just wanted to let you know that you are in our hearts and prayers daily... hopefully something good comes and you will be Czech to English translating again or whatever Gods wants you to do, you will do it with joy and enthusiasm .... I think you are amazing individual, going so far on your own with trust that God will provide; and He will as what Bible says, you are his child and follower. I am sure he will use you and test you. Life is not easy, only silly can think otherwise......
Things generally fine, except for a persistent lack of work. But I'm making slow progress with the seo stuff, so at least something promising. Didn't realise you were so sick of this stuff, so I'll make sure not to talk about it. Guess I find it interesting because I'm not forced to do it because someone told me to but because it is a way for me to become successful. And then I also find it interesting and how
google and the algorithms work. Anyway, I guess you didn't read the letter, but I was wondering if you had that typing program I could suggest to me translators. Or know of some free downloadable one. Where you living? Actually wanted to ask you that, or if you were still living with your parents. Is dad upset you're not helping him with rent or living with them? Guess now you can go nutso partying. Where you livin? Send me some pics? Otherwise, I should be back around Juneish. Think I'll head to the Polish coast and maybe farther north, as I don't work well in the intense
Croatia heat. And I found Croats rather snotty. Cyprus story was crazy and by far the farthest I've ever gone and most I've ever spent just to get a mobile signal. Kinda hilarious, and the ferry was expensive, but decided this is a good winter hangout because I can drive over to the Greek side to extend my 90 day limit in
Turkey. Nice nature island full of historical relics, and much warmer than the mainland, so I look forward to discovering it. Hope I can get some juicy work one of these days. Obviously to help me pay back debts and invest into expansion, but it almost sucks to be living this dream but have to be so penny pinching with gas. Almost a painful irony, but parking for a long time on a beach isn't something worth complaining about, so I guess things can't be so bad. I'd say now the temperature is almost perfect. Need to save up for gas and ferry money before it gets too hot!
I have not had time to read this document but agree with Dad on the point of personal contact. It's good advice.
cau dude, finally found an antispam system I'm happy with: www.vqme.com About 34$ a year. I need this confirmation approach, because my email addresses are all over the internet and now filter alone could suffice. I wrote dad that the personal contact approach will be handled by others, everywhere in the world, once I have enough cash to pay for that. Right now I am offering the position but commission only. In the meantime I'm doing the seo thing, and when things get rolling, I'll focus on making the machine work and seo and marketing etc. Let us call it upper management. Someone can set up a fancy office in New York, practically call it what they want, and just forward all their work to the Kenax engine. Full details here
Translations in-house jobs employment
if you'd like to read that. Finally kicked in on the seo and am 9th for "translation resources". Should hopefully only improve from here, and will keep adding more and more pages.
how are things going? You seem to be doing well, as I see your webpage all over the place. I've recently restarted seo work and am starting to see some progress. Been too busy with large projects the last seven years to look for customers, but now I have a system set up through which I can expand, externally, like through a virtual office, as I like to work on my own and not in some office with tons of people. Even one secretary annoyed me. So I've followed my big dream, moved myself and my business into a truck, and now I'm travelling freely around the world while working. I guess my details in your database should be correct, although I could not check it. Basically I'm interested in all translators and all customers.
> HEY! isn't it your birthday today??
Yah. I stopped caring a few years back. I think for 10 years I haven't told people around me, not even to get free beer. At one point I tried to stop remembering, so that I could forget my age, but that turned out futile, cause people can be annoying and they often ask, and it's quite retarded to respond "I don't know", so I was forced to abandon that aspiration. So I just don't care, but I guess i'm fortunate cause I still look young, and I'm still pretty fit, although I've been getting lazy lately. But I'm getting back into it, and mostly relies on the ability to find fresh water so I can have my portable shower. Summers are easier because beaches often have showers. Then I can jog happily in the sun, jump in the ocean and swim back with my goggles, or sweat with pushups in the truck before jumping in the ocean. But I've finally found some water here and its warm enough now to take showers outside. But before when I left Prague, I enjoyed TOTALLY kicking everyone's ass in squash, and especially the young sporty looking 21 year olds. They always marvelled how I could run so quickly from one end of the court to another. Actually, makes me not as good a player, because the better players conserve energy, but I enjoyed maxing myself out, so I would slam the ball a lot harder than strategy called for. Now i don't mind telling people my age because I like to see the surprise on their face. Or sometimes I'll do the cheesey thing and ask them to guess. Early thirties is the usual guess, but I can get away with murder in dark romantic bar lighting. Under flourescant lighting in the can it can be a bit of a horror show. Drink a double beer in my honour, because I've started a new fasting routine: starting my birthday until Easter no beer or cigarettes or meat or bad things, doing a full spring cleaning for the traditional 40ish days. I move towards a juice fast, and the near the end try the customary 8 days of water only, during which I do the various herbal cleansing things, to get rid of my kidney and liver stones and all sorts of other stuff. So I come out of it
squeaky clean like a baby. I think that helps as well. laterama
Oh hush. We shall have to stop remembering, that way I can be forever 40 and you forever 42. I think those are good numbers to stay at! Yesterday at work I was talking to a lady that was out sick for quite a while, she said she had Whooping Cough, that the old inoculations wear off and they're thinking of re-boosting everyone. I said, "You're the same age as me, arent' you?" She said, "How old are you?" I was like, " . . .. . 40." such a long pause, I couldn't even say it! She laughed. Anyways, have a good birthday. If I wasn't getting over a BRUTAL cold (hearing about your warm adventures made me somewhat jealous) I would have a beer tonight in your honour. I'm sure I'll be able to suck one down in the next couple of days though!
Hey, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! And enjoy the celebration with that Slovakian chick ... :o). Going today to the mountains, so will have time to have a look at it only later. Well. to the mountains together with Dana and Marketa. :-)
yah, you gonna make a Marty sandwich in the mountains, where your the salami slice? Was fun hanging out with the Slovakian girl, but turns out she only gets one day off a month, so there goes my aspirations of having nice company with which to explore the islands. But I've gotten in touch with some hashers (that crazy group of people who like to jog and drink beer), so maybe I'll find some coexplorers that way (although they're rarely an attractive bunch). But my back tires are getting thin and I'm starting to fear driving anywhere, as it would cost me about a thousand bucks to replace them all. Did ya send the cd yet? I'm considering relocating to another part of the island, although only a couple of hours away. The post office said they'd hold onto the cd for me, but if over a certain size, they'd charge something per day. have a good one.
didn't get a response from you the last time I asked if you could help me with my financial situation. If you sent an sms to my old t-mobile number, it probably did not get through, because their roaming services sucks, and I cancelled with them. I now have a Turkish sim card, but I'm regularly changing sim cards as I travel, until I get back to Czech and open a roaming plan with someone else. It's been crazy lately and I was forced to relocated to
Cyprus, just so that I could cross the border to another country (southern half of the island is Greek). But its a nice island and much warmer here, if you're up for a little break. Lots of cool historical relics, great nature, and friendly people. But the ferry across and other costs hit me hard, and once again I'm forced to ask around for a loan. I've been getting trickles of work here and there, usually enough to get by, and I'm managing to keep my costs low, since I don't pay for rent or electricity, thanks to the great solar panels. I'm living as modestly as I can, yet I'm running dangerously low of cash and I'd appreciate the help if you can spare it. When I don't have work, I've been busy looking for customers every possible way I can. I must admit this is the longest dryish spell I've had, but these things happen sometimes. In any case, I'm glad that I finally have the system set up to enable me to expand. I've been working on that for about five years, and now the virtual office is ready and I can hire as many people as I want externally. In the past I've had inhouse secretaries, but this is not the type of existence I want, for which reason I masterminded the virtual office (not to mention that it is essential for my new travelling existence). I've been approaching customers on the internet, offering my Czech to English translation services again, working to penetrate the Chinese market, and working on webrankings in between work. I've made some progress with the webrankings, now at 9th position for "translating resources" and 25th for "translation agency", and this is where I place much of my hope, but progress is slow. Anyway, hope you can help me out in my time of need. Take care and warm greetings from
Cyprus. I hope to swing through Czech around Junish, as I need to show up there once a year to reregister the truck and for health insurance. Maybe we can plan for some trip once back.
Yes, I use the ignum.cz filter with x.cz. It works fairly well, and there are up-days and down-days as they seem to use a product with a team that actively tries to improve it. It will never be perfect, but I get a fair amount of spam, and it successfully filters through 80-90% of it. Fair amount of spam for me now is probably 30 a day, not that much in some books. You can try it by copying all your mail through your
email address and see how it marks (I use an outlook filter on everything with five or more stars on a scale of 10 in the subject line).
thanks for the offer, but managed to find this Vanquish thing, which I believe I already wrote about. I get about a thousand spam a day, and expect more once/if I start getting a lot of hits, and into the future, so I need something that sends challenge messages to new people. Another good thing about Vanquish is "smart subjects", meaning it will let messages through and with the subject, on a permanent basis or up to a period of 14 days (I can adjust). Which is good for when I post potential jobs on the internet, as many people find these challenge emails simply too "challenging". But still hope to use the kaja address at some point, for super personal and secret emails. latermun
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