[TyeDyeSkyGuy]

I have an upcoming cache where I’d like to put a cache in a concrete wall, and cover it with something. This concrete wall already has almost the perfect hole in it, but I wanted to make it just a bit bigger so the custom container will fit. The hole now is about 1 1/4″ and would need to be about 1 3/8″. The wall is on public property, technically has something already covering the hole, and if the cache was ever removed, you would in no way ever notice the hole, just as you cannot at this point.

Any idea if this one would fly?

[TyeDyeSkyGuy]

This one is fairly obvious for me. I think I’ll remember the Tornado that ran through my back yard on January 7th. the one that destroyed my pool house and ripped the roof off of my office. Yup, pretty sure I’ll remember that one for a while.

😯

[TyeDyeSkyGuy]

LMC is a truck parts company. It would be wise to avoid that one as well.

[TyeDyeSkyGuy]

The only uses for the date are:

1. The date it’s placed will show up on the cache page

2. The GC.com software uses that date to show the cache as “new” for seven days when people do a search.

Neither are that important, but I’d want the date correct too.

Contact GC.com support and ask them what’s up. [email protected]

[TyeDyeSkyGuy]

@Timberline Echoes wrote:

Another area I work in is writing and my first novel has just been published. It will officially be released on April 21.
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Congrats on your first publication!!! Looks like a book the wifey would like. I passed the link on to her.

Now you’ll have to write a Sci-Fi or Sci-Fact for me. 😀

[TyeDyeSkyGuy]

No street sweepers for us yet. We still have snow banks overflowing into the streets. And, I haven’t seen the first Robin yet either.

But, The skunks are out, and I saw a raccoon last night too. Both good signs.

It’s 54° here by the lake, and the snow is melting quick!

[TyeDyeSkyGuy]

…and in case you are concerned about chesters around cache placements. You can always check this site.

[TyeDyeSkyGuy]

OK, it sounds like KFC wins. Just as long as we donn’t start calling the Kentucky Fried Caches, I guess it’ll do. 😀

[TyeDyeSkyGuy]

I’m currently working as Maintenance Foreman for a Real Estate company. Carpentry, electrical, plumbing, the works. I took on this position after finding that Bankers hours no longer meant short hours with holiday’s off.

I worked as Branch Manager for TCF Bank in Shorewood WI until one day I realized i was missing everything I wanted to experience as my son was growing up. I mentioned this to my landlord at the time, and she offered me a job working right where I live. It took a few months for it to sink in before I made the switch. It was a big change from $uits and laptop$, to steel-toes and hammers I’m sure you can imagine.

At the time it sounded like a great idea. I did, and still do get to spend a lot more time with my son, but, working where you live has it’s drawbacks. Like my employer won’t let me live off-site, and the wife and I have been ready to buy a house for six years.

So, in August, we are both starting back to school. Debbie is taking her placement exams as I type. She will be getting her degree with hopes of working with underprivileged children. Either ones with physical abuse histories, or drug and alcohol issues.

I will be attending Gateway at the Racine campus off of Hwy H. I will be working towards my degree in engineering starting with CAD, but only attending part time, while I continue working full time. Gateway has gone to a trimester schedule now, so degrees will come quicker than they used to, but will still take me forever. But it will be worth it in the end.

How does this all relate to puzzles? I don’t get to use my brain at work much, because my job became kind of routine after a while. One you build a wall, or replace a water heater, or re-wire an apartment so many times, it just gets monotonous. Puzzles keep my brain active. Not just geocaching puzzles, any kind of puzzles. The biggest puzzle of all, the theory of everything, is what keeps my brain in check most of the time. Then there is caching.

[TyeDyeSkyGuy]

@-cheeto- wrote:

No Chesters In Area Cache

hey, I resemble that remark…

Thankfully, wrong kind of Chester. 😀

[TyeDyeSkyGuy]

@-cheeto- wrote:

Ignoring them simply because they have a ? icon is simply “a crime.” If they are local, read them. Don’t just ignore them… Who know’s maybe the subject will interest you or you will know the solve.

I couldn’t agree more. To many people I think, pass on puzzles as soon as they are published, without so much as a look.

So many of my puzzles look so complex, but are actually quite simple to solve. My newest, Riddler’s Treasure Chest for instance. It’s a 5 star difficulty because it’s so easy. Nothing to solve, no coords to figure out, no research. The coords are right there for anyone to find. yet most people will still ignore it.

Yes, puzzles can be intimidating, but give them a shot some time.

[TyeDyeSkyGuy]

The designation is a big thing for me. It should be an easy thing to remember and recognize, but should not make us the butt of so many jokes.

I think a simple KF (Kid Friendly) would do fine.

CF (child friendly)

or CFC (child friendly cache) if you want it to be a three letter acronym.

Or if you really want to draw attention to it, you could make it (NCIAC) No Chesters In Area Cache). Did I just write that? Too much coffee this morning I guess, and the backspace button is not responding. 😯 8) 😆

[TyeDyeSkyGuy]

My least favorite is also not on the list, which would be the pill bottle in a tree crotch that can be seen from 50 feet away. I like a little challenge, even when I’m hunting easier caches.

If I have to pick from your list I’d go with multi-caches, only because most every time we hunt one, there is a stage missing, or unreadable coordinates.

[TyeDyeSkyGuy]

@Cache_boppin_BunnyFuFu wrote:

I know when I run PQ’s sometimes I don’t have the right checkboxes checked and I have to do it all over. I just ran one and it came over just fine.

My mistake in the PQ is usually where it asks for the TYPE of cache and I choose Earthcaches BUT I forget to move the dot from ANY TYPE to SELECTED TYPE after choosing Earthcache.

Fu

I read your post and thought that would do it, but it still comes up with no results. I’m double checking, and this is what I have checked off.

Selected types
Earthcaches
Any Container
I Haven’t found
I have found
My Home Coordinates
Within a radius of 100 miles
Output to this accounts e-mail

[TyeDyeSkyGuy]

Is there a geocache there?

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