Got an alert from one of Santa’s helpers… Placed thirty-one and were good as well? Except for that snake thing. Well, I do have one serving as a guide at one of our own caches. Sounds like a fine report card. Checked your profile and see you are halfway dressed for the occasion – might need a warmer shirt though. You will find something to help you on your way in your mailbox. Hope you can have a Merry if Chilly Christmas!

S.S.S.S.Santagasu

Labrat has suggested a SSSS reunion on January 1st. I’m almost afraid that he may have been serious… 😯

ZB, that won’t cost you as much if you just become a premium member. lol.

I’ll try to play Santa again and see what I can get to you via e-mail, or if that doesn’t work perhaps mail you a hard copy. I just can’t resist having the audit log on this one – sixteen views today so far. Watching the watchers has been one of the most fun things about this cache. Merry Christmas. And all I want is a moratorium on sudokus for the new year.

Santagasu, correct me if I am wrong but I don’t think the mire freezes or at least not very hard. 😆 there really is no GOOD time to go for this one, just a different set of variables.

Dear Santa,

I’ve been a pretty good girl this year. There is the matter of that embarrassing 1/1 DNF a few weeks back, but other than that, I’ve looked hard on all our adventures, and even found one nasty one without ANY help from Trekkin’ (though a few others gave me nudges).

So, all I want for Christmas is someone to travel with me to Hawaii so I can cache and get that same kayaking EC Da Fu is getting. Add to that a jillion new life birds. Trekkin’ won’t take a plane! LOL I might even have a non-caching friend convinced, who knows?

Your friend, Birdin’

Hmmm…

The coal gift department appears to be managed by another contributor to this thread.

Hawaii: That’s on my Wish List, big time, but my family does like to fly and I hope to get there with them – might not be till after retirement though. 😥 I have to believe there are some others who would love to make that trip sooner, either for the EC or the life birds. Eat my heart out.

ThePharmGirl wrote:

Hey wait a minute… the “help” in my mailbox was something I had already figured out. Sneaky Santagasu. I guess he gave me the satisfaction of knowing I was right.

The mail must travel slow. The help there was the first reply before a separate e-mail from ThePharmGirl detailed significant progress and applications of the key far into the solve. Confirmed that one of those applications should get the solve, but see only a couple attempts and no new correct solve on the geochecker stats page thus far this morning. Still trying to keep from taking the fun out of it with any more, but, after the time apparently spent, could be convinced to be even more specific.

Jeremy wrote:

I only want one thing for Christmas this year. My mind back. It has been preoccupied with solving a certain sinister, scary, sneaky and strenuous (SSSS) puzzle cache as of late. I can’t concentrate on anything without drifting off into a weird fantasy land land of keys and numbers and mathematical formulas. When I try to sleep I’m haunted by nightmares of getting INCORRECT in Geochecker over and over and over again.

I’ve been a good boy this year and must be on the nice list. I kept my room clean and ate most of my vegetables. I didn’t get into any fights and listened to my mom.

Hopeful that a full cure is imminent. ThePharmGirl must be very close to getting that ticket out of the weird fantasy land and on the sinister trail to success!