We drove to Flo­rence today to have break­fast with Cousin Lau­rie. We met at the usual spot, Cracker Bar­rel, and did some catch­ing up. Lau­rie has a new job and we have a new car. Every­thing else is pretty much the same, Donna had a hot choco­late and Lau­rie and I had the equiv­a­lent of two cups of cof­fee each and between the two of us we used up about 20 sugar pack­ets and a dozen creamers.

After break­fast Donna and I did a lit­tle caching on a local trail sys­tem, find­ing 8 and DNF­ing 1. Here is the log from the most inter­est­ing one:

Ahhh, my least favorite cache of the day.

Not the cache itself, that was a cool find. When the GPSr pointed way over there we fol­lowed blindly. Took life and limb (pun intended) in hand and crossed over the water. Sure enough, once on the other side, the GPSr pointed right back the way we had come. After walk­ing back across the downed log, we wan­dered up and down along the bank, quite pos­si­bly walk­ing right by the cache sev­eral times until my wife turned around and real­ized she was star­ing right at the container.

The part I didn’t like was while duck­ing under a tree and push­ing a cou­ple small branches out of the way, one of them snapped back and smacked me in the lower lip, draw­ing blood and turn­ing it an ugly shade of purple.

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So much for ESPN’s pre­dic­tions and my 8 point favorite sta­tus. The Pur­ple Whales have been beached. Right now the score stands at 77 to 54 in favor of the Swap Rats and he has two play­ers yet to play tonight, includ­ing Drew Brees, and I have none. Looks like there is going to be a three way tie at the top of the West Divi­sion stand­ings with myself, Team Gre­gory and the North Augusta Meat­heads all being 5–2. On the plus side, if the New Orleans Saints kicker can come up with 8 points, the Argyle Pil­grims will win their first game.

The early morn­ing sun and the mist com­ing of the water in a small park in Mid­land Valley.

Today Donna and I (plus Joan) vis­ited the fol­low­ing places and found geo­caches: Afghanistan, Alaska, Egypt, Great Britain & Ire­land, Kam­chatka, Mid­dle East, Peru, Scan­di­navia, Siam, South Africa and South­ern Europe. We drove to all of them and only put 90 miles on the car.

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The Arnone Dynasty crum­bled today. The Pur­ple Whales are lead­ing their game this week 82 to 79 and still have one player to play on Mon­day, while their oppo­nents have none left to play. Win!