I don’t know if I’ve ever told you about the barber shops here. I think, it is pretty interesting, the fact that exactly here in Oakdale there is a barber shop run by Turkish people. I do not have anything against them, on the contrary – I think they are good barbers(is that the word? ), it is just a strange idea that a Bulgarian goes to a Turkish barber shop in a small town on Long Island. Most barbers? even recognize me as someone from around Turkey ( most of them needed at most 3 times to guess that I am from Bulgaria, even though they already know it )…

I know people say “It is a small world” but I think it is a huge world, and even so things like this happen…

When I have a presentation to make, it usually means that the night before I will sleep 4-5 hours, because I would have actually make it… Last night wasn’t an exception. I had to compare Socialism and Capitalism for a course of Economics and not only did I go to bed at 4:30, but I didn’t like the presentation. In the end 6-7 hours of work were presented in 1 hour and I couldn’t get enough sleep ( the presentation was at 10 in the morning )

According the the Greek orthodox beliefs, today is The Resurrection Day ( of Jesus Christ ). In Bulgaria we say:
– Christ Resurrected!
– Indeed Resurrected!
and than the egg fighting starts.

Today in Arcib we had an interesting event. We had to make sure, no one will be able to recover data from 4 disks – to destroy them. It turned out a little bit more difficult than it sounds. First, it is not easy to disassemble the drives. Than the platters are pretty tough and it took quite some time to drill through and heat them, in the end we took the head magnets for us, we drilled a whole in the platters, heated them to 1000 degrees fahrenheit and we concluded it will be very hard to recover anything from these platters… A got a few of the strong magnets for myself

Few weeks ago, looking around at amazon, I found Salton YM9 1-Quart Yogurt Maker. This device is nothing more than a worm incubator for bacteria It was on a discount, so I decided to give it a shot. All I can say is that I will never buy yogurt from the store again. It is twice cheaper and 100 times better( in taste and healthy ). I also got some Bulgarian bacteria and now I grow them at home and I eat them. The only problem is that this yogurt does not last as long as a store yogurt. Not that it goes bad, it just gets eaten too fast

Here is the procedure:
I put 1 quart of organic milk in a pot and I heat it until it start smoking ( not boiling). Than I put the pot in the sink and run cold water next to it to cool it down until it stops smoking ( around 40 degrees centigrade ). In a small cup I mix 2 teaspoons of my last batch of yogurt with a little of the worm milk, stirring carefully, not beating. After the yogurt is dissolved well I mix it with the other milk an stir. I put it in my incubator ( it can be left in a worm place with a blanket around it, or in a stove that can maintain as low as 40 centigrade. Also when I stir I run all my utensils through very hot tap water for disinfection. After about 5 hours I move the container to the refrigerator. The consistency will still be runny, but after another 2 hours in the fridge and mmmmmmm