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… you spend 3 hours on a Friday night googling phrases like cometary panspermia to solve 3 new seldom|seen internet research puzzles.

(then see that dave’s already been out to hunt 1 of them)

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They probably invest the membership fees into better and more powerful hardware as the user base and content continues to grow by leaps and bounds and also into paying developers to work on software that supports multiple languages, countries, timezones and all this varying content and a user base that grows by leaps and bounds.

One of their employee’s posted a note about testing and tuning performance of the system today in preparation for the upcoming weekend. That reassures me that they know what’s happening and where the overall priorities lie.

They’ve actually mentioned it on many occasions that pocket queries are not interactive functionality. They are “batch”. In the world of computers, batch means you don’t get it right away.

I ran a new pocket query this afternoon and the email came across only a couple minutes after I ran it. Did you know that if you delete your old query and create a new one that it has a higher priority in their batch queue?

They obviously have issues with the whole site when new updates go in. PQ’s are probably no different. I give them the benefit of the doubt. When you start to think about the site and all it does and you have a technical background you realize that it’s no small feat just to keep that beast up and running for all of us.

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Here but I should be working..

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The event is now published on GC.com:
GC1NJ9R- 3 For 3 – Appleton CITO 2009

It should also be showing up here on the WGA events list when the site admin approves.

I will now be updating the cache page with any changes.

We hope to see everyone there!

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The Appleton 2009 CITO event cache page is now in the reviewer queue.

Event date has been switched from my last update. It will be on Saturday April 18th starting at 9am at the large pavilion at Pierce Park in Appleton.

As seldom|seen mentioned already, we will be cleaning 3 parks for the 3rd consecutive Appleton Spring CITO event.

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Not sure if it’s my place to respond but I am a huge fan of being open all the time.

There was much discussion regarding options for this and a great solution and proposal were put together by the website committee to accommodate this excellent idea. There is also a note regarding this being mentioned at the WGA board meeting in the meeting minutes.

I don’t see any mention of “next steps” in the committee thread. I will post a followup there to keep this topic moving so the members can start posting!! 🙂

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For those geocachers in the area that are newer and/or have not been to a CITO event, here are links to the last 2 Appleton CITO events:

GC19PTZ – Let’s Cleanup Jones Park – Appleton CITO 2008
GC1180N – Not So Superfund Fox River Cleanup

Volunteering to cleanup a park is a VERY rewarding experience! Trust me that you will feel like you did a good thing if you participate and you’ll get to meet other area geocachers. This is a great opportunity to give back to the parks department that graciously allows us to hide geocaches in our parks without extensive permission processes.

I will continue to keep everyone posted here until the cache page is published.

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Thanks everyone for the input so far. I think I have enough info to plan the date & location with the parks dept.

We’ll go for 4/25 for the event date.

Please keep the ideas and responses coming!

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Congrats!

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Congrats!

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I actually thought there was a posting in the past that asked if the group was interested in having a forum section devoted to “ask a reviewer” or something like that. Mostly a cache placing forum.

Don’t know what ever came of it but I guess not much since there’s no section.

Wis Kid has always been helpful to me. ..no disrespect to the missus reviewer… I just don’t get to work with her much 🙂 Not sure what’s going on in your specific case but our reviewers are geocachers too. They are volunteers and they are both members of the WGA. I think they want you to succeed at placing caches and maintaining caches for everyone to go out and find. I could be wrong here but I hope I’m not! 🙂

Good luck on your current issues. Try not to get too discouraged. (I know it’s easy to…) Keep on placing them as that’s what keeps the game going…

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naw… just carrying them around in case the mood strikes to hide another on some street corner, fence post, bus stop, or guard rail somewhere.. haven’t swiped any (yet).

which gives me a couple more:

…you visit bus stops and don’t get on the bus or have said/signaled “no thanks” as the bus drives up to the stop.
…you know where all the guard rails are in your home town and surrounding towns.
..you see cyclone fence post tops and want to check if they will pop off or not

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… you hear that we move forward our clocks this weekend and think “oooh 1 more hour for geocaching after work”

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I bought this unit from Seldomseen

that explains it… it’s a puzzle to get it working right 🙂

Seriously though, I’m following this thread with interest as my father-in-law has this type of GPS.

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Pathtags in the dryer are found on a regular basis…

add to that, magnetic nano’s….

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