<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2627" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV>One could hope the geysers get off this "let's all erupt before 9" business, but most did it again today -- Beehive, Grand, Castle, Oblong, Daisy. So I was in for a while, then out early-ish in order to keep my head cold from too much wind.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Silex erupted in the night and was just below overflow at 0700. I placed a marker. Celestine was still violently (to 3 or 4 feet) erupting, so I'm guessing the Silex initial was in the vicinity of 0300.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Fan and Mortar reaced 8 1/2 days as of late morning. The observation made earlier with John Warnock at Fan and Mortar bears telling. No, sadly it did not erupt for us, but geez, a QUADRUPLE River Vent pause...</DIV> <DIV>0757 River on; 0804 off</DIV> <DIV>0810 River on; 0819 off</DIV> <DIV>0824 River on; 0833 off</DIV> <DIV>0838 River on; 0847 off</DIV> <DIV>0855 River on; 0904 Gold on; 0913 Angle on</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>These were complete, bona-fide pauses. Throughout the entire time from 0801 until about 0900, Main Vent had a great many, very frequent splashes, some filling the entire vent and one spraying over the rocks and into East Vent. However, though it tried mightily, Bottom Vent never really erupted -- it played around a lot and did discharge enough water to form a trickle of water to near the river. There were also small "fuzzballs" in Lower Mortar. But no eruption. Once the cycle finally progressed, water levels stayed fairly high until about the 20 minute mark, then obviously decreased. Nothing, not even significant grumbling, in Upper Mortar. Nuts.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I went into the VC in hopes of clarifying that business of the electronically recorded time yielding an interval of less than 5 hours. Something is screwy. I had not misread the logbook. So we went back to the office, looked at the comuter and ...... the appropriate file could not be located! The day before and the day after, but not that one. Maybe it will turn up. (Do note that if that eruption time was actually 5/14, 0059 rather than 0259, all would be perfect.)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Anyhow, eliminating that double interval of 15h 42m, I sat down with the 15 Grand intervals I posted on Friday plus the four closed intervals since then, calculated, and found the average interval for the past 7 days to have been 8h 02m. The longest was 9h 53m (there was also 9h 51m); the shortest was 6h 36m.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Today's Grand at 0706 was a T1Q.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Scott Bryan</DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>