This time around, I'm going more for a photo recap of the past month rather than the usual text-heavy entry. July (and the first half of August) focused pretty much on one thing: Pennsic XLIII. The last time Deb and I attended Pennsic, it was back in 2011 with just the crew. This time around, a smaller contingent of our crew joined up with our ( Read more... )

I'm happy to report that Summer has been off to a mild start this year, with plenty of beautiful weekends to enjoy being either outside or out and about. There was plenty going on in June, enough to keep us busy every weekend and in between. At the end of my last post, I expressed that I wanted to visit Knoebel's and possibly go tubing, and we ( Read more... )

Hello old Livejournal of mine. While I can't dig up the statistics any more (since I'm no longer a premium member), I just wanted to note that I wrote my first entry 11 years ago today. I was a junior at Kutztown and working as a press operator at Safeguard for the Summer. Today I'm 9 years out of college and into my career at Merck. I also ( Read more... )

I'm a bit surprised to suddenly find myself at the end of May, but here we are. The last time I posted, I was busy in preparations for our fifth Markland Cold War event. In the days leading up to the event, April decided that it was going to save up all of its rain until the 30th, and we got dumped on. In our area, there were reports of 5-6" of ( Read more... )

When March draws to a close, things get a little crazy for me every year. April is always full of events and opportunities, and that hasn't changed this year.

When I last updated, I had marked the end of March as three years since I joined the Maker Movement, something I heard about after attending a Steampunk event. At just about the same ( Read more... )

Well, it's been nearly a month since the announcements, so let me get this out of the way up front - I survived the big layoff. I was completely tied up in my HPLC assay on the day of, not even sure if I was going to see it to completion. We were all individually scheduled to meet in the director's office, one at a time over the course of the day ( Read more... )

Hello LJ, it's been a while ( Read more... )

Hello LJ, and Happy New Year! It's a little over two weeks into January, so I figured it's time to recap the holidays before I move into the slower, grayer time of the year ( Read more... )

It's New Year's Eve and time for my annual recap. There weren't a lot of big changes in 2013; it was a year of stability in our home. While I hope there is further stability and changes for the better in the future (namely keeping my job at Merck in the face of record layoffs and changing my address from the one I've had for the past 20 years), I ( Read more... )

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