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Good news for those of you with slow internet connections. I’ve now A-Test on both fast DSL at work and slow 26.6 modem connection at home … I can’t really tell much of a difference (except of course for uploading some test digital camera photos).
Part of A-Team reporting in … I just had my first run through the Beta on my high-speed DSL at work. It’s very Cool! This will be a great new site! Tonight I plan on repeating the process at home on my slow 26.6 “out in the sticks” modem connection. Maybe someday they’ll run cable out by us .. not. Or maybe the cost of satelite internet will come down … not.
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Originally posted by Team Deejay:
Depends! If you are operating a recirculating boiler …
Darn, just when I thought this was just a residential crowd! But then actually, we could be throwing solar-thermal into this and using the sun to pre-heat water that might get heated more. Oh, never mind … just forget I said anything.
[This message has been edited by EnergySaver (edited 03-21-2006).]
Wow, great story!
Glad your Ok.Much worse that my experience … last October I held a geo-event in Port Washington, one of my hides was out by a navigational marker out on a breakwater. I decided to hide it a couple days early for the event, after leaving my office but on my way to speaking on energy conservation for a small audience. Well I only got hit by one wave, but I still looked silly talking to the group with moist clothes. They would have been dripping wet, if not for the strong winds that dried much of it as I ran back to dry land.
in case it creeps in, it’s not “Hot Water Heater”, it’s “Water Heater”. If it was hot already, why would you need to heat it. Opps, wrong job!
Welcome Aboard!
I’m a Port resident too.
I hope we run into each other sometime, in the mean time please go find ALL of my caches. To quote Bushwacking Queen … “all of them!”my 2 cents, it should have all of these qualities …
(a) a nice rural area with scenery like a bubbling brook or a water fall or something.
(b) a good ol’ traditional hide in a hollow tree, that is accessable in up to 6″ of snow, and that has a low chance of being muggled.
(c) a good size container, maybe an ammo can, or something clear of similar size that is for sure water tight, and well marked.
(d) a spot where there is reasonable, legal and safe parking for your car.
(e) a mid-length walk from parking to the cache, maybe 1/4 to 1/2 mile each way.
I’d be interested in applying for this position, as long as it doesn’t pay anything, as my accountant told me to keep my income down.
– I’m somewhat of a power user and have had self-inflicted experience with making websites (if that helps any).
– At home not only am I limited to dial-up but due to my distance from the real world I only get 26Kbps connections.
– My only downside is that I’ve not given up Internet Exploiter yet.
If you need to get a hold of me, here’s my card: 7 of Clubs
Yes, I believe that Bushwhacking Queen is bringing mint ice cream to the Kewaskum event on April 29th.
did someone say gifts?
your giving away gifts!sorry, it’s Friday and I had 2 helpings of mint ice cream.
Some events have MANY “temporary” geocaches hidden at them … caches that are just there for the event day and might not meet the normal approval rules for a “regular” geocache (ie. they might be closer together than 0.10 miles) and they might not be things that would last more than a day (ie. containers that might be real cute but not water resistant; or a container that sets off an alarm when you open the cover, ahh that was my favorite event hide that I placed). Finding these hides is a different “flavor” of fun compared to geocaching and typically involve arriving at the hides with other caching teams and chatting with them … or sometimes it means making believe the cache is someplace it’s not :-). These hides are “different strokes for different folks” … some want to find all of them and fly through the woods (especially if there’s like 40 of them hidden); while others go at it slower, chat more and let the kids find them, which means you might not find them all (the approach my family takes).
Some folks like to play “Finders Tree” too … which means if you have a bunch of people and one person finds the cache, they don’t announce it but walk away from the cache and say finders tree, this tells the group that you found it, but still allows them to find it too. This is how our family typically does “normal” caches (especially when we bring guests); it works at events too, but you need to not drag it out real long, since others might be waiting for there chance at the cache.
I would suggest you hold off on a final date, until it’s announced FOR SURE when the WGA Picnic is. As that date could change based on availablily of a park … as there’s just so many places they can fit that many people, they will be at the mercy of availability.
Besides, you can’t get your event page approved until 3 months or less before your event date … it’s one of the event approval rules.
Another Cache Name.
Did I win anything?Welcome, Dan!
If you’re looking for posting subject that are meaningless but light hearted. Then just look for one’s I’ve started, as I specialize in sillyness.
Excellent comments by “NSLP#1” and “Team Deejay”!
It’s just a fact that some people get kicks out of “stirring the pot to see if it will boil over”. The best thing you can do is avoid boiling over and let them stir until their arm gets sore.
Please don’t avoid coming to events, because of these situations. Personally, I don’t worry about such people at the events. In fact I’ve had nice conversations with them, that seem to have no correlation to past WGA postings. I actually like talking to these people in person, they’re a lot of fun! … even though I don’t agree with their style on the message board. Life is too short and there are too many caches to be found, to worry about how big of a spoon is in the pot.
Boy that was weird … ok, I’m crawling back into my cyber-hole.
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