[brainandbraun]

Very interesting input! Thanks!

Our kids are still pretty little and we are working very hard on learning how to be discrete. They do make us cache slowly, but they are the ones that point out the little flowers and the different shaped leaves. They always show up with “a flower for mama”, which is so sweet. And how to walk carefully so as to not crush plants (not to mention make a cacher’s trail). They also are the ones who point out to our family members that ‘a cache is over there’ and the details of finding it. 😀

Hopefully we will have some of those other memories and lessons learned mentioned before to add to this list. Here’s to No More Fires in Seattle! 😉

[brainandbraun]

We watched the video and…Wait a minute…who finds geocaches with only a compass? And then to show a tomtom as a gpsr to use while geocaching, ouch. We did that for a year and struggled. Don’t recommend doing that. Oh, and it hasn’t taught our kids how to follow directions. It’s taught them to blame the gpsr if we can’t find the cache. It’s taught them what a muggle is. And it’s taught them to include our home coords in their letters to Santa.

[brainandbraun]

Who knew that a divorce advisor could cause so much trouble geocaching? You are a naughty, naughty boy! 😈

[brainandbraun]

Okay, Christmas morning is better. At least you know it’s coming; it’s just a matter of waiting. This isn’t the same. We have no idea what will be waiting for us once the servers go up. yuck… 😡

[brainandbraun]

I guess now you can add ‘getting questioned by the cops’ to our things to do. The teens across the street had been setting off fireworks all night and after we set off 4 bottle rockets the cops showed up at our door. Thank goodness we looked and acted ‘mature and responsible’, oh, and the cop didn’t know gc.com was down. 😯

[brainandbraun]

@Averith wrote:

I was just wondering does the WGA website have an off site back up??? If not, perhaps would be something to seriously consider.

According to the CEO, they cannot afford 2 datacenters. So, there is no backup. 😯 We have 52 active caches and never thought about maintaining paper backups. Ouch…

[brainandbraun]

Never got on twitter before tonight, but wow it’s useful when you are jonesing for geocaching.

A minute ago twitter said about 2 hours because the 2nd generator just got on site.

[brainandbraun]

Okay, last tweet said 4 hours…

[brainandbraun]

We really planned on spending today and tomorrow caching. So instead we blew up illegal fireworks in our backyard. If it’s still down tomorrow we are filling an old microwave with fireworks, attaching it to an outlet with a long extension cord and turning it on. I wonder what will happen?? 😆

[brainandbraun]

Twitter post a minute ago…”still getting the same reports that they are “on target” to get online late this evening” from geocaching CEO.

Here’s hoping!

[brainandbraun]

@bugsmasher69 wrote:

http://www.kirotv.com/news/19939673/detail.html

and a couple of twitters from CacheAdvance:

electrical onsite inspecting & attempting to dry out the electrical switch gear at Fisher datacenter -no ETA

Adhost website states that the systems may be up by 1pm Pacific. I remain skeptical but hopeful

this link has the news article and a video…doesn’t sound good

[brainandbraun]

We propose that due to the inability to access geocaching.com, each member be allowed extra finds to their total – 10 seems reasonable. 😉

[brainandbraun]

Still waiting…this stinks. We totally had plans to be out all weekend – beautiful weather, no responsibilities, no commitments. I guess we will have to settle for exploding stuff in the backyard. Thank goodness we live so close to IL. No “safe and sane” fireworks for us! 😈

[brainandbraun]

Very cool! Hopefully this article will intro geocaching and get some newbies to join and place more caches for all of us to hunt! Congrats on being famous! 😀

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