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Picking up a bunch of ticks this weekend, stopped us from going after a second letterbox hybrid. Nothing more annoying that driving from cache to cache and stopping in between to catch a tick crawling across you.
One thing we did start doing, when we get home, we throw all our clothes in the dryer and let it spin for a while. I dont know if its the heat or just all the tumbling, but it does get them out of your clothes.
Still a bit rough considering I did all of it in paint, but here is the general idea
Marc, this one is going to be a little different. Unlike the normal Geo 101 class, they hosting a High Interest Day – where the kids get to hear about different activities. They sign up for 6 different interests to check out throughout the day. They are looking for 6 – 1 hour geo classes. In addition its a pretty broad range of ages for the kids (K- 8th grade). The coordinator is working on getting us more info about how many will attend and ages. She seems to be super cooperative.
Koolma, I can send you the info that we’ve gotten so far, if you are interesting in teaming up for this. Just let me know. The more the merrier.
Ditto on Potowatomi Casino. I’m not much of a gambler, but their sports bar has excellent food in addition to a world class restaurant (Dreamdance from above). Also you might what to check out the Harley Museum, I believe there is a eatery in there as well, if not it is very close by.
Funny part is it was more than just a passing nod on the trail, but the whole family stopped and talked with the 4 of us for quite a while as the their kids played with the dogs. We had no idea who they were until after they left and Crippler clued us in. They seem very genuine. In fact, when they moved on, Paul mentioned their mission was to throw some rocks in the creek.
If you are 30, or older, you might think this is hilarious!
When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning…. Uphill… Barefoot… BOTH ways… yadda, yadda, yadda
And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on my kids about how hard I had it and how easy they’ve got it!
But now that I’m over the ripe old age of thirty, I can’t help but look around and notice the youth of today. You’ve got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a Utopia!
And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don’t know how good you’ve got it!I mean, when I was a kid we didn’t have the Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!!
There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter – with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox, and it would take like a week to get there! Stamps were 10 cents!
Child Protective Services didn’t care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our butts! Nowhere was safe!
There were no MP3’s or Napsters or iTunes! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself!
Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio, and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up! There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car… We’d play our favorite tape and “eject” it when finished, and then the tape would come undone rendering it useless.
We didn’t have fancy stuff like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called, they got a busy signal, that’s it!
There weren’t any cell phones either. If you left the house, you just didn’t make a ###### call or receive one. You actually had to be out of touch with your “friends”. OH MY GOD !!! Think of the horror… not being in touch with someone 24/7!!! And then there’s TEXTING. Yeah, right. Please! You kids have no idea how annoying you are.
And we didn’t have fancy Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your parents, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, the collection agent… you just didn’t know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances!
We didn’t have any fancy PlayStation or Xbox video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like ‘Space Invaders’ and ‘Asteroids’. Your screen guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen… Forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!
You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your butt and walk over to the TV to change the channel!!! NO REMOTES!!! Oh, no, what’s the world coming to?!?!
There was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I’m saying? We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-finks!
And we didn’t have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove! Imagine that!
And our parents told us to stay outside and play… all day long. Oh, no, no electronics to soothe and comfort. And if you came back inside… you were doing chores! And car seats – oh, please! Mom threw you in the back seat and you hung on. If you were lucky, you got the “safety arm” across the chest at the last moment if she had to stop suddenly, and if your head hit the dashboard, well that was your fault for calling “shot gun” in the first place! See! That’s exactly what I’m talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You’re spoiled rotten! You guys wouldn’t have lasted five minutes back in 1980 or any time before!Regards,
The Over 30 CrowdNo kidding, Beale is the cache? One of my first solves. I use variations of that technique every year at Easter as a way to hide the Easter cache/baskets for the kids. Sorry to see that one go.
80% sure we can come up with something. What would really be cool is have one event at the lake front, another around the zoo interchange, and another in Brookfield/Waukesha area.
It would be nice to get 10 events going, one for every year. Does anyone else think this is a good idea?
@Team Deejay wrote:
We’re the maybe. We will only attend if you fix the shift key on your computer!
The shift key works, SG is capitalized. It looks like a PICNIC error to me.
Also, I seem to be missing something, which day are you thinking of holding the event?
Hmmm 90 miles between Milwaukee and Madison. One event every 10 miles??? We could get 10 of them in. I did not read anything in the rules about not having an event a park and ride. Gotta work on the creative naming thingy. And sub lackeys would be most welcomed as they are much more fun that the stuffy full lackeys.
RC, if it makes you feel any better, I spent over a year working on solving Baffled and Bewildered. I got to the point of knowing all the names of the people and was working on the common thread between them and the cache got archived. Also, I have had some caches in Tosa that I spent hours on, only to go seek the cache and find it gone. I sent the owner an email and without a response he archived it. Wywrdson followed the rules and did what he was supposed to do. My GSAK is full of solved puzzles, I am pretty sure I will end up only finding 75% of them. It is part of the game.
Personally if it was my cache and you solved the puzzle and it is considered an easy find after that, I would tell you to log it. And then I would either fix the cache or archive it. Its the CO resposibility to maintain the cache, the rules are pretty clear about that.
Do the events have to be an hour apart? What if we managed to get 10 between here and Madison or Appleton?
Mc Donalds has a sausage biscuit for a 1.00 and an extra large thermos of coffee and we could have a breakfast kickoff at the lake front!
@Lostby7 wrote:
So who will be holding a 10 year event?
Perhaps a string of them across the state by different cachers with staggered start times….like an event power trail.
Or like a round robin. Everyone starts at one event , then moves to the next one. Seems I read you just need a minimum of 10 people.
Way to go on another milestone. We look forward to seeing you again on the 27th!
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