[Geysers] Thanks to geyser people last week...

[Bill Johnson]

I second the thank-you, with a particular thanks to Kitt Barger who picked 
up our copy of TSB's book after we left it sitting on the Beehive benches 
on Friday following the eruption.  As Kitt could confirm, that's an 
incredibly well thumbed-over book with a great deal of sentimental 
attachment for us, so we're really happy that someone "adopted" it until we 
noticed it was missing.  In general we continued to learn a lot from you 
folks, and it was appreciated.

Incidentally, we missed the Sunday Giant by about 45 minutes :-(, and 
thereby hangs a tale.  There was a discussion at one point earlier in the 
day implying that there would have to be a "sacrifice" to get the thing to 
erupt, i.e., somebody would have to leave and just barely miss the 
eruption.  I forget who it was that I was talking to, but he was on the 
verge of taking one for the team -- until I mentioned that Emily and I had 
to start back for New Mexico.  Lo and behold, it "worked"...  Did the guy 
who stayed after we left manage to hang around until the eruption?

-- Bill Johnson (and Emily), ugly bearded guy in the orange rainwear.