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Don’t be so cynical you two, I’m sure there are some in stop sign posts too.
On the Left Side of the Road...Nothing like taking bombastic, big haired arena rock to the next level. Gotta love them holding gold albums about halfway through. And what’s the quick shot of the stage hand?
I know, what a thread stealer I am…
ITS THE FINAL COUNTDOWWWWN….DA DA DA DA…
On the Left Side of the Road...I dropped the family off at the second-farthest west cache (Munchkin I think?), then I went and parked at Dorothy Gale and went back on the trail. So if you bring a patsy with you who doesn’t mind going 8 miles while you go 4, that’s an option too. 😀
On the Left Side of the Road...I don’t care what anyone says, those chicks are HOT!!!!
On the Left Side of the Road...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jK-NcRmVcw&ob=av3e
On the Left Side of the Road...I don’t think it’s a dumb reason for archiving at all. We pulled a ton of puzzle caches a while back for a similar reason, because certain people were set out to basically spoil puzzles and couldn’t understand how someone could possibly feel that actually solving puzzles, rather than just handing out final coordinates, was important. We lost that argument so, rather than sit and stew, we went out and pulled. Now I try to take a different view on the actions of others, as I’ve outlined here.
And that is also a value to this forum and why this discussion should continue even though some might not wish it to. I think it is very helpful for the caching community to know that this issue is important to some owners and that some owners will choose to say forget it and pull caches.
I was once told by a prolific cut and paster when I brought up the subject, “If I had to write a unique log for every cache I found I would have quit this game long ago.” I guess we see there is a flip side to that sentiment as well.
On the Left Side of the Road...OPS, I completely understand your argument and why you feel the way you do. What I will say is don’t let the actions of people you do not know and probably would not even like to be around set the value on what you do. You did not put your caches out for lazy loggers, you put them out for people who appreciate them, and for your friends in the area and beyond.
But, I know it is difficult to not take those things as a reflection on your efforts.
On the Left Side of the Road...It was always on at Easter time, wasn’t it?
On the Left Side of the Road...Ah yes, the irony of people complaining about people complaining. Rich indeed.
On the Left Side of the Road...Yeah, this game isn’t important in the grand scheme of life, but unlike life you don’t have to play it either. And let’s be honest with ourselves here, TFTC is not saying thanks, it’s pasting something into the box because GC doesn’t allow you to post blank logs. It would be like writing TFTC (thanks for the candy) on the front of your Halloween costume instead of taking the time to say it. Ditto for the same boilerplate text, how you’re an amazing platinum whatever or some pseudo-Latin garbage on every cache. Paste, click, paste, click, paste, click. 🙄
This is why I think the whole comment box should be optional because some comments simply do not improve white space. There are times we don’t have much to say either so we end up with a simple “found it.” If GC didn’t demand text in the comment box, this discussion wouldn’t even exist but I bet people would still be placing caches. The thoughtful finders would be writing thoughtful logs, and no one would be griping about TFTC logs because they simply wouldn’t exist. Again, letterboxing is a prime example of that. Because logs are optional, every comment is at least a sentence and I’ve never seen a “TFTB” log.
As I think I said a few pages back, I just get to the point where I consider the source. As in life, there are numbers of people in this game who you wouldn’t like if you met them and vice versa. Then there are those people who you do like and whose opinions you value. That’s why I just delete logs from the former and relish logs from the latter.
On the Left Side of the Road...On the Left Side of the Road...@Northwoods Tom wrote:
Dorothy Gale – The Yellow Brick Road Series GC343DK
I bit of a drive, but a fun series of caches outside of Oconto Falls.
Well I don’t know if I see the Halloween theme but we did this series today and it is great. I’m going to start a recommended cache post.
On the Left Side of the Road...Nothing within 50 miles of Green Bay for me…I keep watching.
On the Left Side of the Road...apparently they check their forum threads as often as they do their email!
On the Left Side of the Road...Two things. First, there is a huge difference between designating a responsible local person to look after a remote cache, and simply pasting verbiage on your cache page telling people they can feel free to replace a cache after 5 x D minutes of looking. The first is responsible, the second is lazy.
There are too many players in this game who think they are hot stuff because they have X00s of caches placed out there when they only have the wherewithal and/or provisions in place to care for a fraction of that amount.
Second, a fair amount of the artwork is still in place; not as impressive as it used to be but still worth the visit. We were there in August.
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