I really liked this weeks Podcacher Show 275.0: A Puzzling Day. It was one of the better podcasts that I have heard in the last few weeks. I think it appealed to my evil streak. Anytime you can come up with new puzzles it is a good thing. Podcacher is one of my insperations. I have a few that I took ideas from them.
In all it was a great show. The pet GPS tracker would be good. I really love the reverse geocache you can check it out here. It is an idea where you need to get a box to a particular spot. Then it will open. You need to take the cache container to the coordinates, then it will unlock. I looked at the design at one point. I should delve into it a little more. i have a few hardwood boxes that I made some time ago that I would like to try it on.
I am still working through some of the caches in my list. I am down to about 140 caches to go through.. i have a lot on hold that I am working on as well. If I have not looked at your cache, or if you are wondering what is going on. I have forgotten them before. I have had as many as 300+ caches in my queue and on hold when I got back from scout camp. So feel free to pipe up if you are wondering what is going on with yours. That is what email is for.
Friends
I wanted to toss in a bit about my friends. I was reading the latitude 47. The blog of groundspeak. they just had an article A Journey of 1001 Days of Geocaching. It made me think of some of the great friends and local cachers there are. I will try and write a bit about them when I get the chance. This guy has done 1000+ days of caching. Yet Dr Jay passed 1200 in the past few weeks, and he has 700+ ftf's. Jac0b passed 1800 caches. I remember early on wondering who these two were. I am happy to have met them and count them among my friends.
We have so many fantastic people here in Utah. I have a hard time listing and naming them all. Many I have met, and many more I have yet to meet. So until we do meet. Good luck and good caching.
My caching over the weekend and a few neat spots
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This makes one year in my reviewing life as BlueRajah. It has been great and a fantastic roller coaster of fun. Hopefully I make it many more. The people that I have met are fantastic. I do not think many people realize how great we actually have it here.
There is something for everyone, and what great fun it is. Mountains and desert, mountain lakes to warm reservoirs. The people are fantastic, and the pizza is good as well.
I am the village idiot that has a few names. I go by Firennice and by Bluerajah.
The whole idea of geoaching was fascinating to me. I had heard of it for a few years before I actually started. I went out with a bonus check from work and decided to buy a GPS. Well like so many others I began to wonder what I could do with it ... more than just carry with me while I was hiking.
So thanks to some papers in with my Magellen Triton 200 I headed off to the geocaching.com website. Well off I went on the 4th of May in 2008 to find my first cache. It was GC17484 Generic Cache by Jac0b. Little did I know that taking the red pill (My Matrix) would change my life. Like Alice going down the rabbit hole an entire new world opened up to me.
The cache that amazed me more than any was when I went hunting for friend GC12Y1Z Moose It was there. Tucked away in a place that I never thought, tiny. Smaller then I ever even consdered. It was truly the eye opening moment.
Update on 2010-06-09 00:01 by firennice
Changes. There are changes coming, and I am exited. Hopefully everyone will like them. Thanks for the words of encouragement from everyone. I was thinking how long I have been doing this now. I am shocked at all the work that goes into it. Its like saying that scouts will only be an hour a week.
The anniversary of Groundspeak is on its way. We are ready for the next 10 years. I don't think anyone that does not speak geek would understand all the work that Groundspeak is putting into beefing up its system. Where other companies are downsizing, we are growing in leaps and bounds, and trying to stay ahead of everything.