Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Scoble’s new venture launched recently . . . Pot meet the kettle: scottO rips Groundspeak for its less than courteous customer service. I truly wonder what he thinks the perception of Terracaching.com’s customer service is . . . Ed Morrissey’s When the Democratic Party moves too far left for George McGovern, you know they’re in trouble made me spray my computer screen . . . It’s interesting that the guy who got me into geocaching is also now blogging . . . much ado is being made out of John McCain’s reaction to NY Times reporter Elisabeth Bumiller. That isn’t anger to me and I have no issue with his response. It was a silly question he was asked and he let her know it . . . ’twas just reminded that I will be at Yankee Stadium in June for a game. It is the last season for the House That Ruth Built . . . gearing up for lawn care as I dropped the mower and edger off for service today . . . “Oh, get over it!” You have to love Scalia . . . from an e-mail I received earlier this week: “I hope all the bastards who got those no-money-down loans do get thrown out of their houses.” . . . completing classroom book orders online is wonderful. No longer do I have to fill out those dreaded forms and mail them in. We’ll see how quickly they arrive . . . California now requires parents who homeschool their children to have teaching certs. Ha! or should that be Bah! Sure, force parents to be indoctrinated in the system they want to be rid of. That makes sense . . . More spewage: “Adam Eaton is picking up right where he left off last season — getting pummeled like Apollo Creed in the beginning of Rocky IV” . . . I came across this (don’t ask how). The more I see of stuff like this, the more I am sympathetic to celebrities. I think they give up some of their personal lives as the trade off of stardom, but this kind of stuff is ridiculous . . . a good chuckle . . . Wow! Reading a book is considered “racial harassment” . . .
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
What does it say when someone makes the following posts:
Was great to finally meet some of the gang. Thanks to the organizers for pulling together a nice dinner and the opportunity to chat and trade notes. Hope to see you all again soon.
13 December 2004
Great group to be doing sunrise breakfast with
5 May 2005
Great fun chatting about our favorite caches and cachers. . . . Was good to see some new faces as well as a lot of familiar ones!
1 October 2005
Got a chance to see some familiar faces who appear in the Pines from time to time. It was great to meet some new faces that I have known only by reputation or email. Nice friendly bunch of cachers. Thanks for allowing one of the South Jersey gang attend this event.
20 December 2005
Fun to see some familiar faces as well as a bunch of new ones.
18 June 2006
Nice to see some old friends and new faces!
9 September 2006
What a great party. new faces, old faces, good food and good times. I was glad to see that all of the usual Pofe suspects and then some were in attendance.
3 December 2006
Nice to see some familiar faces as well as meet some new ones.
19 December 2006
This was a fun event. Met some new cachers as well as catching up with the old gang again.
2 February 2007
The food was good, the company excellent.
17 April 2007
Another fine event. Tagged along with the SJ Cache Posse for some Fudd burgers.
16 May 2007
. . . chatted with my fellow cachers. Life is good.
10 March 2007
The food was good as well as the company.
9 June 2007
it was great to be spending it with friends, new and old.
21 June 2007
Good to see everyone again!
15 September 2007
Now this was a different event. . . . Great fun by all - thanks to the DAM TROLLS for organizing this different kind of event.
10 November 2007
Saw some old friends, some new friends, had fun with the games.
9 December 2007
Good food & good company.
19 February 2008
Good seeing everyone this morning.
2 March 2008
yet when I post an idea for an event this same cacher states on multiple fora:
sounds like a waste of time and effort. Plenty of real caches to find in the mean time.
3 March 2008
??????
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Saturday, March 1st, 2008
Four Min Hourglass
After some caching today I decided to pull over and play a little Wherigo. When I loaded this cartridge I saw it could be played at home. I saved it for later and played a different one then.
After logging the caches and organizing the seemingly endless photographs, I decided to call up this cartridge.
I recognize the puzzle, although I have used different numbers previously. I jotted down my plan. Unfortunately, my plan was flawed. Yikes! I made the adjustment and re-played the cartridge and happily timed four minutes.
Thank you for the cartridge. I appreciate futzing with these.
I am not certain how much this has to do with location or a GPS, but at this point in the game I am not terribly concerned. It is good to have cartridges to play to work through some of the conceptual stuff and this one does just that!
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Saturday, March 1st, 2008
A Vegas Rddle
I played this cartridge this afternoon after doing some caching. Not having read what was needed I looked for an open space thinking that may be needed. I pulled into a public school I used to teach at and drove around back. I read the preamble and got started.
Apparently I am not a good judge of 100 feet as I ended up with some of the casinos on the other side of the fence. Sigh . . . only me. 
It didn’t take too long to solve this. At first I didn’t realize I needed to select the person too. I was just dropping off luggage. I would never make a good limo driver.
I played and enjoyed the little logic puzzle. Once I was done I was unsure if I needed to do anything else or not.
Thanks for the fun.
This cartridge was more interesting than the tutorial was.
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Yesterday I received a Garmin Colorado 400t in the mail. I had fun all evening setting it up, loading files, and learning about this new unit. Today I had the pleasure of using it for real.
Excited to try out Wherigo, I played the first player tutorial on my lunch break on the school’s playground. I knew from reading about this cartridge that it was a real basic game so I wasn’t expecting much. That was good because there wasn’t much there. Nevertheless, I played and completed the game in short order.
I found some of the directions confusing and I am still learning the menu system on the Garmin, so that affected how smooth I was in giving items, collecting, etc.
And of course, I am not a gamer and never have been. I can see that there will be different genres of cartridges and those that are heavy into the role playing will likely not be my favorite.
I attempted to upload my saved game to Wherigo.com as part of my log, but I received an error each time I did so. It appears that the file is corrupted somehow.
Looking into it I am not certain why. I have two cartridges of the same game loaded on Rocky. I played the one named Wherigo Tutorial. I have a feeling this is an earlier version of the cartridge. I also have one named Wherigo Player Tutorial, which is the current name of this cartridge. I wonder if I played an older version of the cartridge and that is why it could not be uploaded. Even so, I was able to log that I played the cartridge.
I anticipate working through the other play anywhere cartridges soon. I hope to have a smoother interaction with them as I learn this new game.
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