Up before 08:00. Had a quick shower and went out in search of some groceries. Tried a market up the street. It seemed to have a better selection. Got some muesli and laundry soap. Had a delicious bowl of muesli and soy milk for breakfast. Dropped my laundry off on the way down to the Kumquat at 09:30. Saw Yeşim around 10:30. She had had an anxiety attack on the way home the previous night. Managed to make it to the far side of the bridge to the Asian side before having to pull over and have the police assist her in getting to the hospital. She should have been home resting, but was in at the office to get a number of shows and art events organized and to get her artists gearing up for Fall. She told me that the small piece about our course for the class brochure had not been submitted. This was rather embarrassing because we had finished it on August 17th.
Asia popped up on iChat, burning the early morning oil at 02:00 her time. Had a very long chat with her. Finally left the Kumquat at 13:00. Stopped and got some produce on the way home. Found out that Renee's plane ticket had been misplaced. She had not bothered to mention it until she and Michael had been getting ready to leave for the airport at 05:30. Michael and I headed out to run some errands. Stopped by his bank and then headed for the furniture area to get one of our office chairs fixed and pick up my beanbag chair. Was a little taken aback to find a large lavender bean bag chair waiting for me. When I had ordered the chair, the salesman had brought out a set of sample swatches and I had picked out a dark brown that I had hoped wouldn't show all of the black soot that settles on everything. Alas, the number of the swatch was not written on the order and the salesman recalled us asking for the lavender display model, only in a bigger size. Rather than having to come back a fourth time, I decided to take it.
Headed back over to Taksim to get a replacement ticket for Renee. Spent 45 minutes making the arrangements for standby seating on each of the two flights of the next couple of days. The next available seat was for September 8th, which was long after Renee needed to be back for school. Had a bit of lunch and listened to Michael relate stories of his times with Lee Michaels in Malibu and Venice.
Renee glumly tapping out SMS'. Michael at the Turkish Air counter (The staff were helpful but painfully slow.) Michael with my new lavender beanbag chair. They are referred to as armut iskemle (Pear Chairs) in Turkish.
Headed home and puttered around for a bit before heading back down to the Kumquat to see if I could get xsiter to work on my server. Seemed that some of the php calls were not compatible with the php libraries being installed as cgi rather than an Apache module. The upshot was that I could not get it to work and would have to wait until fALk and the developer were both online. fALk and Willow came by a bit later and fALk started to get the Artificial Eyes site and another one for his parents uploaded. The Artificial Eyes site was not working properly. Somehow the database was not importing our data. Fulya came by around 21:30 and looked at all of the blog entries for the last couple of days. We finished up as the Kumquat closed at 23:00. Walked Fulya home and headed back to the house. fALk and Willow came 30 minutes later with a huge bag of produce to make dinner with. We were all set to cook when Willow decided that she would make it all. I started nodding off around 01:00. Dinner was finally ready around 01:15. Willow had whipped up a delicious assortment of lentils, roasted peppers with cauliflower and potatoes and a dish of eggplant, onion and garlic. There was also a raita, a yogurt with cucumber and leek dish. This was all served on lavosh. Finally finished cleaning up around 02:00.
Asia popped up on iChat, burning the early morning oil at 02:00 her time. Had a very long chat with her. Finally left the Kumquat at 13:00. Stopped and got some produce on the way home. Found out that Renee's plane ticket had been misplaced. She had not bothered to mention it until she and Michael had been getting ready to leave for the airport at 05:30. Michael and I headed out to run some errands. Stopped by his bank and then headed for the furniture area to get one of our office chairs fixed and pick up my beanbag chair. Was a little taken aback to find a large lavender bean bag chair waiting for me. When I had ordered the chair, the salesman had brought out a set of sample swatches and I had picked out a dark brown that I had hoped wouldn't show all of the black soot that settles on everything. Alas, the number of the swatch was not written on the order and the salesman recalled us asking for the lavender display model, only in a bigger size. Rather than having to come back a fourth time, I decided to take it.
Headed back over to Taksim to get a replacement ticket for Renee. Spent 45 minutes making the arrangements for standby seating on each of the two flights of the next couple of days. The next available seat was for September 8th, which was long after Renee needed to be back for school. Had a bit of lunch and listened to Michael relate stories of his times with Lee Michaels in Malibu and Venice.
Renee glumly tapping out SMS'. Michael at the Turkish Air counter (The staff were helpful but painfully slow.) Michael with my new lavender beanbag chair. They are referred to as armut iskemle (Pear Chairs) in Turkish.
Headed home and puttered around for a bit before heading back down to the Kumquat to see if I could get xsiter to work on my server. Seemed that some of the php calls were not compatible with the php libraries being installed as cgi rather than an Apache module. The upshot was that I could not get it to work and would have to wait until fALk and the developer were both online. fALk and Willow came by a bit later and fALk started to get the Artificial Eyes site and another one for his parents uploaded. The Artificial Eyes site was not working properly. Somehow the database was not importing our data. Fulya came by around 21:30 and looked at all of the blog entries for the last couple of days. We finished up as the Kumquat closed at 23:00. Walked Fulya home and headed back to the house. fALk and Willow came 30 minutes later with a huge bag of produce to make dinner with. We were all set to cook when Willow decided that she would make it all. I started nodding off around 01:00. Dinner was finally ready around 01:15. Willow had whipped up a delicious assortment of lentils, roasted peppers with cauliflower and potatoes and a dish of eggplant, onion and garlic. There was also a raita, a yogurt with cucumber and leek dish. This was all served on lavosh. Finally finished cleaning up around 02:00.
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