Bears and buildings

What an interesting day.  Work was much better than yesterday, just less tourists and better preparation helps a lot. One thing that also  helped was the last geyser went off after 5 PM.  Yesterday, it went off at 4:30, so the crowd shows up and wants stuff. darn tourists!!

I went to a ranger led seminar at the Employee Rec Center.  it was about bears and quite interesting.  I did have some problems hearing, but one of my buddies from the residence was sitting next to me and kept telling me what I missed.  There are about 1000 bears in the park at this point.  A whole lot of other stuff about them, too.

I took a bunch of pictures of the Rec Center and of the lounge in my residence.  Folks here hang out, do puzzles and sit around socializing and complaining.  Very similar to sitting around my and Than's table, except no one, no one talks politics. 

Outside of the Rec Center

inside of Rec Center

another view from inside the rec center
Outside of my residence, Obsidian Hall, aka Geritol Hall

Puzzle people, Brenda, Angel and Jasmine

Better view of Jasmine

Steve and John

Long shot of the room

no-name woman, Debbie and Jim


Brenda and Jasmine are my suite mates, we share the bathroom.   More tomorrow

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