Rhenium

It's my birthday today! Which means I get to geek out by showing you videos about birthday candles and the fun things you can do with them.

But before the videos, here are some milestones from the past year:
1) I graduated from college and started a Master's program
2) I moved to Michigan (obvious I know)
3) I missed seeing the ACTUAL Stanley Cup 3 times (twice in Lake Placid, once in Michigan)
4) I don't wear my hair in a ponytail everyday (this my friends is HUGE)

I am sure I am forgetting a bunch of things, but Year 21 was so hampered by school, school, school, and well more school that it was hard to really find things that were milestone worthy (although I still count an A in P-Chem as a mega-milestone). Here's to Year 22 being better :)

Fun Fact: Before its discovery in Germany in 1925, rhenium was discovered by Masataka Ogawa in Japan in 1908. Unfortunately "nipponium" (Ogawa's name for rhenium) was misidentified as technetium, so Japan's name for the element was nullified. Instead the element was named for the Rhine River in Europe.