I arrived safely in Grant Village (Yellowstone National Park, WY) on schedule on thursday May 14th, and I am settling back in to my old job ["Houseperson"/Porter/Night Maid] as the snow melts away and the activity of Yellowstone visitors picks up.

Here in Grant Village, the most exiting thing that has happened lately is that an Elk had decided to give birth to her calf right here in the village, and has been very aggressive as she protects her newborn, chasing employees and guests alike away by charging at them, and vehicles. Bears have been spotted near by as well, but I've not seen them or heard about them entering the village for at least a week.

Because I broke the semi-decent camera I took my awesome photos with last year (Oops), I only have a super-sucky digital camera at the moment, so I sadly will not be able to expand my photo portfolio much, if at all this season (Unless maybe I get a nicer one for my birthday from my family [August 5th *Hint*Hint*]).

Last Season, I was almost completely cut-off from the outside world, but for E-Mail (when I could get the internet to work here, which wasn't often), and infrequent calls on a calling card from the courtesy phone when it was not in-use or broken.

Today, I'm quite pleased to have a new Cell Phone which actually works INSIDE the Park (in specific areas), so now I can talk to my friends and family, and they can actually call me back. YAY!

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On the Artist/Cartooning front:

I have ridiculous amounts of ideas for stuff I would like to do, as usual (Fan Art, Fan-Fictions and Original works alike, ranging from stand alone pieces to multi-chapter epic graphic novel stories), but I remain lacking in the motivation to put a pencil to paper and make them.

My theoretical Fan Fiction "StarFox: Lylat R&D", and my Original Fantasy/Sci-Fi universe "Tomes of Oscar County", have both grown so big in my head, I'm overwhelmed by the idea of trying to start either of them.

That's all for now.

... Later.

~ Joseph (aka. Vuldari)