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This site has several parts. The first is the Abernathy Murder website, the only web page I've ever written to receive a web award. A friend of mine and his son were murdered in their home in 1997. I wasn't particularly close to them, but Neal and his son Brendan were still part of my universe. I liked Neal's family a great deal. Time spent at Neal's house was always time well spent. We shared many of the same friends. Our social lives overlapped. The publicized evidence suggests that Neal knew his murderers, and that means that I and many of my friends may know the killers too. The double homicide is still unsolved and there is no "closure" for those of us who knew Neal and Brendan. Even if you didn't know the Abernathy family, please check out the website. Who knows - maybe you know something that could help the police solve this case. I have recently rebuilt the Abernathy Murder webpage include some new stuff I have learned since the last time I updated my website (4/2003). I changed some of the formatting too. If you can't stand the new look with the embedded quotes, send me an amail and suggest an alternative (so long as its HTML and Bobby compliant)

The second part of my website contains various articles related to medieval arts and sciences that I've published over the last 15 years. This part of my website is being rewritten to make it more general instead of narrowly focused on the membership of the historical re-enactment and living history groups I belong to. I hope to have the rewrite up and running by the end of March 2004. My ultimate goal is actually to convert my opus of writings on things medieval into a book about medieval material science, and I'm writing things with that goal in mind. In the meantime, if you've stopped by to read my articles on medieval silver smelting or medieval pigments, they've been moved to the rocks4brains.com website.

In the last part of my website is a peek at what I do for a living. Click here to see the pre-print (as a pdf) of my recent Journal of Applied Geophysics paper. And click here to see an article on some of my recent research published in the newsletter of INRA, a DOE-funded research alliance of northwest US universities.

This site went on line 19 February 2001. Most recent revision on 24 January 2004. No ads. No cookies. No marketroids. No spam. No junk email. No hassle. This site does use an invisible counter. I spell badly and sometimes links die. Send info on dead links or any other comments about this site to: no1home@onewest.net. Thanks for stopping by.