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Congrats on #400, MuddyBottoms! Love it when we know the hide, and you earned that milestone! Sounds like you had a great day caching with friends.
Back to writing more cache logs…
@HeliDood wrote:
found signs of cachers who’d recently been there before me
Who Dat? 😉
Yes, it was gorgeous out today, Helidood. But what were those places that were like brown or yellow instead of white? It’s been a while since we’ve seen that. And congrats on your #50.@Todd300 wrote:
Not everyone is eligible for a debit card. Plus many elderly people prefer paying by check either by choice or because they do not understand now a debit card works. Oh, and it takes just as long waiting for debit or credit approval to go through. Longer if it is credit as the buyer still has to sign the credit slip.
There was one time I was at the grocery store, and I had a lot of stuff, and when I had unloaded most of it, the checker told the customer ahead of me that the card system was down and they could only accept cash or a check. With only a twenty in my wallet, it was a good thing I had the check book along to pay for the groceries. I usually use the debit card. That trip to the store was a mess for everyone at that time.
Hey, Cheezehead! You’re going to have a GC “Undocumented Feature” named after you! 😉
Hey, Cheezehead! You’re going to have a GC glitch named after you!
No, really. I can do this for you.
Send me a “fake” of what you want uploaded (if you don’t trust me), and I’ll see what I can do.
(Then when I get it to work, you can send me the real one, and I’ll get that one uploaded.)
(Then, for a fee, I’ll tell you what I did.)
But it’s basically what GR said, just a matter of finagling things to get it right.Send it to me, Cheezehead. I’ll take care of it for you. 😈
Right now I just want to be outside and find caches and find places to put caches and not worry about snow and cold and wet feet. I want to see action and not spend so much time inside sitting on my duff at the keyboard. This starts tomorrow. 😀 😀 😀 Look out, woods and open spaces! Here we come!
@cheezehead wrote:
Well being that I do cache with 3 labs and that 99.99999999% of the time I’m in the woods, they are with me.
Wow! We saw a rarity last fall–that 0.00000001% of the time you were in the woods without the dogs.
@cheezehead wrote:With most labs, the worst that can happen is they will try to lick you to death.
Yep. Or sit on your receiver so you think you’ve left it somewhere. 😉
But you are very mindful of your dogs when they’re around others. Wish all dog owners were as considerate and responsible.
@cheezehead wrote:
Cuz I do not feel that have reached the level of Puzzle Mastery that the fore mentioned have attained. Thou I am proud of most of my puzzles.
Cheezehead, you are the Puzzle Master for all areas north of Highway 64, if such areas DO exist. 😉 And you are right to be proud of your puzzles–tricky and fun.
And this brings to the fore that all puzzles are not created equal, and all puzzle creators are not created equal when it comes to how they want their puzzle caches solved and found. Check with them first, and you will make them happier and yourselves happier.
And if you get the chance, check out different puzzles all over the state. You don’t have to have plans to go to the actual locations to make the find, but you will enjoy the variety of puzzles that are out there. Within the Fox Valley alone, you have several different types of “puzzlers”, and Cheezehead is totally different from any of them. There are puzzle “zones” near Green Bay and Wausau, too. We’ve done a few puzzles near Madison, some near Milwaukee, and a few here and there elsewhere around the state. Whatever the type, it’s always so much fun to get the Success! on a solve, and then it makes us want to get to that area to make the find.
Puzzles, puzzles, puzzles… so rewarding to work on.
@gotta run wrote:
… to see how my views compare to the community as a whole.
Sounds like there’s no definitive answer out there for you, gotta run, or for anyone. Six of one, half dozen of the other. But let’s hope the discussion here gets people thinking, especially the newer cachers who may not have known all the varying opinions on this subject.
@BakRdz wrote:
Another example of not following the intent: I’ve done plenty of Marc’s cemetery caches where he would like me to post a picture of some example of a headstone I’ve found. I’ve yet to do it. Probably never will. (Not that I’m the only one either.) Why? I DO like spending the time looking around at the other headstones often (which I think is the intent), but I don’t have the patience to collect and post photos just to log the find. That is a part of the experience that doesn’t interest me. Does that make it wrong?
BakRdz, I would like to suggest to you and to others to rethink Marc’s 900 cemetery series. This was originally set up to get people to actually see the unique headstones that are highlighted for each cache. The difficulty ratings of these caches were determined by how hard an example of each stone was to find, and if several cachers could log the same stone or if each needed his/her “own” stone for the photo.
Then the edict on additional logging requirements came down just short of a year ago, and uploading photos for these caches became optional. The series, for most people, especially those cachers who came along after the photos were not required, has now become a series of usually quick finds of bison tubes stuck in a bunch of cemeteries–nothing much more than make the quick grab, sign the log, and go.
Talk to some people who wandered all over any cemetery they found themselves near, camera in hand, eyes scouring stones for the unique features Marc highlighted for each particular cache. We have maybe a dozen of these finds, with photos for most. We still hope to get farther east to find more of these so that we can upload some of the photos we have already taken. We still take snapshots in cemeteries in anticipation of making some more 900 series finds. And we still enjoy the series.
OK. Back to the Puzzle Tour wars…
@geolivestrong wrote:
Well, I took a nasty fall in the bleachers at my son’s basketball game last night! 10 x-rays today to see what the damages were. Maybe it was my cache……? 😯
So there’s a curse involved now? Guess BakRdz is next!
(But we hope you’re doing OK now, GLS!)
@gotta run wrote:
when I thought to myself, “What would Sandlanders do?”
First of all, you would never–and I mean NEVER–catch me out running. 😯 😉 But as for the dogs on your route, just outrun them. You did well, Grasshopper…
Now, as for Mr. Sandlanders on his bicycle… He has quite a few dog stories from his thousands of miles on the area roads. But those tales are his to tell, and there are quite a few dog lovers around these forums… 😉
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