My incredibly thoughtful and brilliant secret santa (a husband/wife duo!) made for me a one-of-a-kind silicon wafer with a 42 nanometer thick chromium Science Officer badge from Stak Trek TNG design in the middle, and making the design involved "an electron beam, a few different acids, ultraviolet light, and finding out one of the machines in my lab isn't working properly", all done at the semiconductor fabrication lab in which this gentleman works. He said it was going to have a gold background but someone stole $3,000 worth of gold from the lab! They also got me some essential and delicious earl grey tea, served hot of course, for when I'm reading. And I love tea. And I love earl grey. And I love reading! The badge is absolutely wonderfully, incredibly awesome though and I can't believe I'm even in possession of it! I'm looking at it right now... and am thinking that its a perfect gift, and a very thoughtful gift, and a cool as shit gift. Science and Star Trek together. Man that sums up two of my most instinctual passions. I will cherish this incredible badge from you two wonderful people for a very long time to come. And I will keep it safe! Framed probably. :) Fuck yea this is an awesome gift!

Oh yea and I just saw down here at the bottom of this submission page that you and your secret santa can win an award. Well you good sir and lady, deserve one.

Thank you so much!