I went back to work. Around 1500, I went to the office and knocked."Yes, Gordy?" I've been thinking." Good, too few do so." This whole area full of ar...hropods is dull!" What do you mean?" Look, I love the ants, the bees, the wasps; the spiders and mites and scorpions; the moths and butterflies; the crickets, katydids, grasshoppers, and locusts. But just displaying them under glass with a tag won't get anyone excited. Why don't we have any amber? Why are there no fossils? Why aren't there. An alert tone sounded on the comm panel, interrupting Keith’s train of thought. “Keith, are you coming home?”“I’d thought about it. What’s for dinner?”“Come and see,” Kimmi laughed.He checked the time. The colonists still had not reset their time and date references, despite the growing inconsistencies with the planetary year. “My relief will be here in about ten minutes, so I should be there in an hour.”“We’ve got to do the centrifuge tonight. Don’t forget.”Keith moaned inwardly. “I won’t. See. When she finally broke away, she asked, “Is that what you have in mind, because that’s what I’d love to do with him right now.”All I could do was nod. Yeah, that was the kind of something that I couldn’t put into words.That was when the music ended and we walked back to our table. Tanner and Tanya were grinning at us and said almost in unison, “You two were having a good time out there.” I thought, if only they knew.A few minutes later, Tanner got a text that our UBER driver was waiting. Once most of it had been hauled up to his room, to the garage, or wherever it went, he turned to packing nearly two dozen boxes that would be mailed to him at pre-arranged maildrops along the trail.Given the relatively cold conditions -- nothing like a couple months ago, of course -- he was going to be loaded fairly heavily, prepared for winter camping, or at least off-season camping, with things like a winter down sleeping bag, warm clothing, and a small but honest tent. In a little over a.