Thought about what a bummer year I've had for rocketry. I haven't built a single kit and I haven't attended a single launch. The lottery launches that the local club put on just didn't work out for me (though I fully admit that they were far better than nothing). Since I couldn't make launches I didn't acquire much ambition to build anything. I had hoped to build an L1 rocket this year and try to move up in the rocketry world, but I didn't even get around to ordering the kit because it looked increasingly like I wouldn't be able to make any launches. Sadly, that fear came true. Oh well. Luckily, there is no time limit, so as winter comes on and rocketry shuts down for the year again (I don't have an indoor workspace, unfortunately, so I'm limited to working outside only when weather permits, which the winter months can sometimes make impossible), all I can say is "next year, maybe?"
On the bright side, I did read a huge chunk of Stine's "Handbook of Model Rocketry," but I still haven't finished it. After completing that book, I hope to read about HPR and prepare for a better year next year. Maybe? Who knows?