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As some of you know, Rsplash40 (henceforth Mike) had a mishap after he moved into his new digs in Wausau that left him with a rather busted up ankle. He has been virtually immobile and doing his best to cache from the couch or bed as the case may be.
To add insult to injury (and I mean that quite literally) about the same time this happened, the unfair and unwarranted (and perhaps unintentional) ribbing of Mike’s caching abilities made it’s way around the forums and the cache log circles.
While all of this was going on there were a number of other WGA related issues that added to Mike’s frustration. I remember the day he simply had had enough. We were chatting on-line and I could tell he was extremely frustrated and just moments away from pulling the plug (and not the one on his morphine drip).
So he archived most of his caches and pulled away from the forums pages which was a shame as I really enjoyed his creative Milestone headings. The thing is, I noticed that a couple others have had similar rough spurts this spring with egos and ideologies clashing in private and public places – I not least among them.
Like everyone, I have to remind myself at times that this is a sport and there is no need, nor indeed room, for animosity. Life is too short and there are too many caches to find to get worked up over a tough puzzle or a new cache designation.
The reality is that it was one long, cold, snowy winter and we are just now coming out the other side. I know this because today I got an e-mail from my friend Mike which made me feel like his mental wounds were healing as fast, if not faster than, his physical ones.
I have my own set of insurmountable obstacles to face this year, but when I see something like this I am heartened to know that warm weather is just around the corner and there also will I find some happy faces of my fellow geocachers which I am happy to call friends. (even though half of them should be institutionalized).
So, thanks Mike for lifting my spirits!
From Mike LaPorte, April 2nd 2008:
Slightly modified version of Twisted Sisters “I want to Rock!”
I wanna walk! (walk)
I wanna walk! (walk)
I want to walk (walk)
I wanna walk! (walk)Sit it down you say,
Well all I got to say to you is time again I say, “No!”
No! No, No, No, No, No!
Tell me not to cache?
Well, all I got to say to you when you tell me not to cache,
I say, “No!”
No! No, No, No, No, No!
So, if you ask me why I like the standing vertical
There’s only one thing I can say to youI wanna walk! (walk)
I wanna walk! (walk)
I want to walk (walk)
I wanna walk! (walk)There’s a feelin’ that
I get from nothin’ else and there ain’t nothin’ in the world
That makes me go!
Go! Go, go, go, go, go!
Turn the GPS power up
I’ve waited for so long so I could find my next hide so,
Let’s go!
Go! Go, go, go, go, go!
When it’s like this I feel the coords shootin’ through me
There’s nothin’ else that I would rather doI wanna walk! (walk)
I wanna walk! (walk)
I want to walk (walk)
I wanna walk! (walk)Hi S/S,
Great post and thanks for including RSplash’s song!!! Mike is not the only one to take the winter off, as I noticed quite a few of other friends absent during the long winter. Heck, there was more than one day, when I was out there plodding thru 3 foot snow, I wondered what the heck I was trying to do, finding a piece of tupperware in the snow!!!!
I am looking forward to seeing Mike back on the trails, as well as several of our other good friends who took much of the winter off. I even heard that some of our good friends who are masked and from Steven’s Point were pried from their cave last weekend, and I am starting to see a lot more logs from others that took a long winter hiatus.
And not to pick at a scab too much, but I recall the cache you mention, that was a little over the top. The owner of that cache is a good friend of ours too, and I know he intended no harm. It is just that sometimes humor can be a hard thing to manage, and when you are trying to be funny, it is hard to know where to draw the line.
Anyway, thanks again for the great post S/S. Here is to our good friends who took a hiatus, and looking forward to seeing them on the trails again!
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