Sometimes I have a battle going on. I love GSAK it is so powerful and such a useful product. Yet sometimes I feel like the village idiot that has been handed an tank. Somewhere there is a button that I can use to move it, fire. And yet I am completely stumped with it sometimes.
Today's battle is trying to get the mail download to work. After months of using it. Now it is stuck. It hates me. It hates me with the fire of a blazing sun. Somewhere in its insides is a way to cram materials inside it. I could use a funnel and cram it in, but I have a feeling that doing that would be ineffective, and fry an expensive computer. That leave me with downloading them and getting them to run the old fashioned way.
Curse you and bless you GSAK.
I just wanted to share more of my last weekend. My wife and kids were out of town. Faced with the thoughts of being alone and doing nothing I tricked Jac0b into going caching with me. I would have gone without him, but I would have gone to Vernal area. He wanted to go south.
We headed through Nephi to grab a few, and I placed one. I am still trying to decide if I list it. It is on a fence. One side we went through 2-3 gates to get there, and the other was locked and had no trespassing. So I am torn. Do I list or not. We spent a long time trying to get back out and finally did make an escape, but I am still determining weather to list it.
There were a few I was hoping to get, and early on all the Ammo Can hides were all missing. So I was getting worried. We finally started to snag a few. I placed a few through the day. The two that were really fun were Guarding the Cache and later in the day Tetanus Shot. Sometimes an idea strikes me. Usually they are not very good, but this time I liked the ideas of those two. We went down through Sanpete county and grabbed a number. More than I expected. We did pretty well.
I also grabbed 4-6 Virtuals that I had missed from some of the smaller towns that I had not been through. So that was a good run. Hopefully I can grab a few more that I am missing down there to finish them soon.
My favorite of the day was a simple guardrail cache Jenny Green Tooth. But the reason that I enjoyed it was because of the experience. We got to the location, and I had been reading the cache page. It made it appear that it was under the bridge. Well we got there and looked at the waters edge. It was a canal/river that was pretty full, and brown and nasty. Well Jacob decided that he was going after it.
So there he was stripping down, to go in the water when I see it up above on the guard rail, So I go up and grab it. Just as an old farmer rolls up and wonders what jacob is doing nearly naked down by the river bend and me scrambling away from him.
He drove off shaking his head, and I was wondering if I should have waited a few minutes before I said that I found it. Jacob swimming in brown cold runoff water would have been a good picture.
This makes one year in my reviewing life as BlueRajah. It has been great and a fantastic roller coaster of fun. Hopefully I make it many more. The people that I have met are fantastic. I do not think many people realize how great we actually have it here.
There is something for everyone, and what great fun it is. Mountains and desert, mountain lakes to warm reservoirs. The people are fantastic, and the pizza is good as well.
I am the village idiot that has a few names. I go by Firennice and by Bluerajah.
The whole idea of geoaching was fascinating to me. I had heard of it for a few years before I actually started. I went out with a bonus check from work and decided to buy a GPS. Well like so many others I began to wonder what I could do with it ... more than just carry with me while I was hiking.
So thanks to some papers in with my Magellen Triton 200 I headed off to the geocaching.com website. Well off I went on the 4th of May in 2008 to find my first cache. It was GC17484 Generic Cache by Jac0b. Little did I know that taking the red pill (My Matrix) would change my life. Like Alice going down the rabbit hole an entire new world opened up to me.
The cache that amazed me more than any was when I went hunting for friend GC12Y1Z Moose It was there. Tucked away in a place that I never thought, tiny. Smaller then I ever even consdered. It was truly the eye opening moment.
Update on 2010-06-09 00:01 by firennice
After rambling a bit, and trying this a few other times. My blogs for knitting, and colored glass fell through. So I guessed I would try and do a new one. Mostly about geocaching. I have had a great time, and I really will ramble on. Feel free to mock me and post your ideas and comments.
So we will see what happens.