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Do not respond to such an email … most often a faked link that will trash your computer one way or another.
Besides an item I’m getting to Lil’ Otter for the drawing … I have a big box with about 100 energy saving night lights … I plan on leaving it out on a table for all of you to dive into to add to your trinkets.
We will not have room to haul any extra stuff … but plan on throwing in some cash, you may put it towards charcoal if you wish.
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Originally posted by GrouseTales:
One problem I see with this idea is the release time. It looks like it would need to go out earlier so those traveling would be able to take advantage of it.
Quick! Hide a new cache and approved it … filled with CDs with all the coordinates on them!
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Originally posted by GrouseTales:
For the sake of discussion, what if we did this:
[*]Send out a .gpx file of the waypoints the night before the event. Email would be sent out at a specific time, say 7:00 PM the night before.
If you happen to do this, please still plan on supporting those that get the coordinates up on arrival at the picnic. As we are starting our travel to the picnic Friday morning, and will not have a computer on the road.
I’m new at this picnic stuff … I assume I don’t have to Pre-Drop a bug in the picnic cache, if I don’t want to. I will have several bugs with me, that I might want to trade with specific people. But since I’m doing caching Friday in Portage, while staying the night, I don’t know for sure what bugs. I assume I can trade or drop a bug and log it after the picnic is over. Or am I wrong?
2 cents … I agree with the WGA decision, I don’t think there should be any chance for some one to pre-hunt the picnic, then it’s not the picnic. I’m hoping to meet tons of people, strike up friendships and hunt with them (if that’s what’s done, sorry, I’m new).
A question … I’ve never upload to my Garmin except via my Mapsource software (which creates .mps) files. Assuming I bring my eMap’s cable, will what you have directly support uploading to my eMap … or do I need to bring my own software. Again, I’m new to the group activities, so this must be a dumb question.
Congrats!
And I feel honored that you made 100 at one of my caches (“Port Puzzle”, 53074).quote:
Originally posted by Cathunter:
If each cache has a logbook & the cache owner wants each waypoint to be logged seperately, so be it. Otherwise, log only for completing the multi.A multi is historically several waypoints leading to a final cache. When designing a multi, hopfully distance between waypoints is taken into consideration. Unless of course there are some awfully nice prizes in the final.
Ah, no logbook at each stage … that makes it a single entry … I can agree with that logic. Regarding “nice prize” … this one was a real bummer … hunted for the first stages for 1.5 hours, drove around, to find that the cache was no longer in it’s original identified container, but just a zip lock bag, sticking out half from under a log … big downer after all that effort.
Shoot me in the head, if I’ve gone too far off the subject … aside from the “do what you feels is right” concept … what is the average professional cachers opinion of multi-caches, with seperate containers … one find, or multi finds?
I just found “Linda Fawn’s Runt” last night. It’s a 3 parter that really stretches the limits … by the time you are done, you’ve driven 2.2 miles as the crow flys. Each step is a very very small container and each was hard to find (even with 2 teams / 7 people looking). I know I can do what I want … but I feel I “deserve credit” for 3 finds, considering the time and effort … but I don’t see others counting it as 3, so I don’t want to be the “odd ball” (at least not in this regard).
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Linus has good points … if you don’t want to log a No Find, at lease email the owner … they can/should post a note that it could be missing and check on it.
I don’t know about others, but I’m getting very frustrated by cachers that jump ship and leave to trace. Case in point, the caches in the “Lions Den” area south of 53074. I’ve rebuilt and taken over a abondoned cache that was trashed. Now it’s becoming obviuous that the other cache in the area has been abonded by that owner too … however, that cache is functioning fine, so I’m not getting involved with it … the same cacher has another cache that Huggger fixed up in another park … and the same cacher claims to have placed several TBs in his cache months ago, but they never really were in there. I’ve informed the TB owner’s of death of their TBs. Grrrrrr!
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Originally posted by Trudy & the beast:
It doesn’t make sense to add a burden of guilt to your geocaching backpack.Live, Laugh, Love and keep on caching,
Everyone has good comments, especially about the great caches in Wisconsin. But really like the part I quoted above for T & B. No matter what you do with the numbers, this should always be about having fun … find caches, don’t worry about how the next person counts something.
Maybe just a suggestion, just to keep non-readers of this forum, that might be attending the picnic … posting something at the sign up table (or on the cache’s web page) indicating how to log each find (or maybe the multiple choices that are ok) … this might avoid others from scream foul, vs. the organizations “flexible” viewpoint. Personally, I think it makes sense to log each find (with a short entry, I agree with that too), since each one has the full effort of a non-picnic cache.
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I’m encouraging “huggger” to contact you on this GPSr. She wants to spend around $100 and this unit would be great for her. I just sent her an email and cc’d you.
… EnergySaver
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I can’t help myself …
COSTELLO CALLS TO BUY A COMPUTER FROM ABBOTT . . . .
ABBOTT: Super Duper computer store. Can I help you?
COSTELLO: Thanks.I’m setting up an office in my den and I’m thinking about buying a computer.
ABBOTT: Mac?
COSTELLO: No, the name’s Lou.
ABBOTT: Your computer?
COSTELLO: I don’t own a computer.I want to buy one.
ABBOTT: Mac?
COSTELLO: I told you, my name’s Lou.
ABBOTT: What about Windows?
COSTELLO: Why? Will it get stuffy in here?
ABBOTT: Do you want a computer with Windows?
COSTELLO: I don’t know. What will I see when I look in the windows?
ABBOTT: Wallpaper.
COSTELLO: Never mind the windows.I need a computer and software.
ABBOTT: Software for Windows?
COSTELLO: No. On the computer! I need something I can use to write proposals,track expenses and run my business. What have you got?
ABBOTT: Office.
COSTELLO: Yeah, for my office. Can you recommend anything?
ABBOTT: I just did.
COSTELLO: You just did what?
ABBOTT: Recommend something.
COSTELLO: You recommended something?
ABBOTT: Yes.
COSTELLO: For my office?
ABBOTT: Yes.
COSTELLO: OK, what did you recommend for my office?
ABBOTT: Office.
COSTELLO: Yes, for my office!
ABBOTT: I recommend Office with Windows.
COSTELLO: I already have an office with windows! OK, lets just say I’m sitting at my computer and I want to type a proposal. What do I need?
ABBOTT: Word.
COSTELLO: What word?
ABBOTT: Word in Office.
COSTELLO: The only word in office is office.
ABBOTT: The Word in Office for Windows.
COSTELLO: Which word in office for windows?
ABBOTT: The Word you get when you click the blue “W”.
COSTELLO: I’m going to click your blue “w” if you don’t start with some straight answers. OK, forget that. Can I watch movies on the Internet?
ABBOTT: Yes, you want Real One.
COSTELLO: Maybe a real one, maybe a cartoon. What I watch is none of your business. Just tell me what I need!
ABBOTT: Real One.
COSTELLO: If it’s a long movie I also want to see reel 2, 3 & 4. Can I watch them?
ABBOTT: Of course.
COSTELLO: Great! With what?
ABBOTT: Real One.
COSTELLO: OK, I’m at my computer and I want to watch a movie.What do I do?
ABBOTT: You click the blue “1”.
COSTELLO: I click the blue one what?
ABBOTT: The blue “1”.
COSTELLO: Is that different from the blue w?
ABBOTT: The blue “1” is Real One and the blue “W” is Word.
COSTELLO: What word?
ABBOTT: The Word in Office for Windows.
COSTELLO: But there’s three words in “office for windows”!
ABBOTT: No, just one. But it’s the most popular Word in the world.
COSTELLO: It is?
ABBOTT: Yes, but to be fair, there aren’t many other Words left. It pretty much wiped out all the other Words out there.
COSTELLO: And that word is real one?
ABBOTT: Real One has nothing to do with Word. Real One isn’t even part of Office.
COSTELLO: STOP! Don’t start that again. What about financial bookkeeping? You have anything I can track my money with?
ABBOTT: Money.
COSTELLO: That’s right. What do you have?
ABBOTT: Money.
COSTELLO: I need money to track my money?
ABBOTT: It comes bundled with your computer
COSTELLO: What’s bundled with my computer?
ABBOTT: Money.
COSTELLO: Money comes with my computer?
ABBOTT: Yes. No extra charge.
COSTELLO: I get a bundle of money with my computer? How much?
ABBOTT: One copy.
COSTELLO: Isn’t it illegal to copy money?
ABBOTT: Microsoft gave us a license to copy money.
COSTELLO: They can give you a license to copy money?
ABBOTT: Why not? THEY OWN IT!
A FEW DAYS LATER . .
ABBOTT: Super Duper computer store. Can I help you?
COSTELLO: How do I turn my computer off?
ABBOTT: Click on “START”……….
Me either … yet they have been in 3 of my own caches … but never at a moment in time when I can get away to grab them (which I guess would not be nice anyway).
For those of you that have one … consider placing it in “Hard Rock Cache A TB Hotel” (GCK0MR) … it is fire proof (nothing worse than sparks from Jeep mufflers) and I’m only about 2 minutes away from it .
[This message has been edited by EnergySaver (edited 08-06-2004).]
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