It has been quite some time since I updated last so here goes nothing.

The summer has been quite good to me despite some of the usual ups and downs. 

The family has finally made their move to Deleware leaving the gma as the last Simon outpost in New Jersey.  It was really weird going to my uncles and seeing new people living across the driveway in a house that used to be mine.  Certain aspects will be missed, but others certainly will not.  Most of all, I will miss having a place that I could retreat to that was different from Hanover but familiar and safe also. 

Mike and Mellisa celebrated their wedding the other week and we took a trip down to South Jersey to celebrate with them.  Overall it was a really fun trip.  We stopped down in Bath on the way to Jersey and visited Denise's church picnic.  Oh the food we ate and polka we rocked (can you rock polka?  fuck it, we rocked the polka).  The wedding was really fun and I attempted to drag Denise out on the dancefloor as much as possible.  (Sidenote)  Despite what most people think about me, I really do not mind attending weddings.  The whole fiasco with my sisters wedding stemmed more from her not treating me as a human being let alone family.  If she could have understood that I had a personal issue and respected that then we would have been cool today.  Apparently women (basing this on one woman - my sister) become psychos when it comes to weddings and it doesn't matter who they trample to get what they want.  Im not about to play that.

I recently read One Flew Over the Cocoos Nest and found it to be a quality read.  I would stronly recommend it to all. 

Mr. Secker stopped by the town of Hanover last weekend and fun was had by all.  That friday we went over to Cadorus mountain biking.  It was an absolute blast, painful but a blast none the less.  After about an hour of riding around the park we discovered that I had a flat tire.  Mr. Seckler rode all the way back to the apt and then back to pick up my skank ass with a flat tire.  The next day Abe, Denise, and I all went to the rail trail starting in York and heading south.  Another quality day was had but with yet another not so quality tube in my rear tire.  The only saving grace was that we were only 2 miles from home when I discovered that this one was going flat.  It was really good to see Abe once again.  It is great how after months of seperate and limited communication that we can fall right back into where we left off.  I appreciate that more than anyone can know.

Denise had a job interview last week near Bethlehem!  From what she hears from the lady she interviewed with, she did extremely well!  She has not heard back yet as far as whether or not she got the job but either way I am extremely proud.  She has no idea just how great she really is.  On a somewhat related topic, Denise turns 23 on Monday so make sure you get your well wishing and birthday spankings in soon!

The job, yes the job.  Right now I'm extremely frustrated with it.  Friday marked the last day for our summer help Josh.  This really is going to be hard on the department because he really eased the work load during the short time that he was there.  Even with him there though, I have way too many balls to juggle at this period of time.  It is either feast or famine where I work.  This week I'll be luck if I have time enough to wipe my ass (if I don't have time it might work to my advantage, no one will want to talk to me to assign me more work).  It really is cool that I am the point man for so many things, but I really wouldn't mind forfeiting the warranty aspect of it.  I really am making a lot of contacts and gaining a lot of valuable experience so I'll stick with it as long as I need to.  In the meantime though, I am trying to gear myself up for the inevitable job searching that will commence when Denise finds her new job. 

The half marathon, we are a little over two months away now.  I am starting to look forward to getting it done and over with so that I can cut my training back drastically.  With the last few nights being quite cool it has been really nice running.  I can run so much harder and faster in 70 degree weather instead of 90 degree weather.  

Oh well, hopefully I haven't bored you all too much.  Everyone have a great one, and remember to keep the emails flooding in.

Kevin