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You know how sometimes a new person joins your group or class or sits down at your table. Then the more stand-up person agrees to introduce say 10-12 people to the new person. After taking the time and everyone being really nice, the new person says, “I’m really bad with names anyway, it’s going to take me a long time.”

Is anybody really good with names? I wouldn’t consider myself bad with names, but who knows. So I’m not getting this post up until Thursday morning but the spirit of Wednesday is still with me. Going to make it kind of short since I have a long field day ahead of me, although my wonderful mother keeps pressing me for pictures and whatnot.

So I agreed to talk about the cabina, because I’ve neglected it for a while, not the room itself, just talking about it. So for about all of last weekend I was ‘rooming’ with Franklin, the lab manager (termination verified), who I still haven’t met. He actually never really spent a night there. On Tuesday, the majority of his stuff was gone. Later, when I returned to the room Tuesday night, the whole place was super-rearranged.

Most importantly the fridge was gone, and I assume it belonged to Franklin. So now that I had arguably the best room on the station to myself, life was good. I’ve been expecting to get a roommate for a while now, since they seem to fast track people over here. This morning I got a not informing me that I will get a roommate, but not until June 18th.

Oh and mid-conditioner during my first shower in the room, the hot water thingamajig (MS Word takes this too, so thoughtful) failed me. Should attend to that sometime soon.

Began the day a little late, but looking forward to visiting the LEP primary forest plot with Amanda in the morning. Through some confusion and lack of timing, Amanda left without me. Turns out she fell in a river. I suggested we build a monkey bridge over, idea pending.

Did minimal work in the afternoon before batting. Our original intention was to go bat at a plot at a farm off-site. This would involve taking the project car. Off course we couldn’t find the keys and other people had them, and there was no extra set at reception. ¡Ay Dios mio!

Disheartened, we walked back over the river to look again and then make a decision. No keys, the decision was to just tough it out and bike out to LEP to bat there tonight. 1.1km down the trail it started raining, boo. Turned the crappy bikes around and raced back to the lab. Sat in the office in quiet discontent eating field dinners.

To not be completely unproductive we reconvened before 8:00pm to go work in the GIS lab. Made some cool maps, of which I’ve supplied one as a picture today, since I don’t have anything striking on my camera. By the time we finished up there it was about 9:35pm and I was turning into a yawn machine. Got back to the cabina and crashed until 6:50am, kind of late. Remembered about forgetting to do this post in my slumber…and here I am.

Had to shell out a solid $500.85 to OTS for 21 nights here through tomorrow. Of course they gave us bills early in the week that said what amounted to nothing. As Amanda & I are standing in reception yesterday (the 30th), I’m informed that the payment was due the 30th of every month at 3:00pm. Somehow, that never made it onto the bill. And why should I have to pay for the 31st on the 30th? Funny business they run here.

I was kind of proud of yesterday’s post, I think it flowed pretty well. Not as proud about today’s, but I will avenge it tonight after batting. Time for the field pretty much all day. And exciting news, mini-vacation to San José tomorrow through Sunday, and hopefully international friendly match between Costa Rica and Chile. Pretty excited for that…and I WILL take pictures.

I feel rushed, so I’m out!

BP