113,000 Million Gallons Of Water

Another weekend, another lake in another state park, this time it’s Lake Murray at Dreher Island State Park. We were in this neck of the woods doing the final bonus cache in the SC DeLorme Challenge. When we left the state park we were 9 finds for the day and I told Donna we needed 1 more for 10 and that would give us a total of 525. We stopped outside of Saluda and grabbed #10. When I got home and logged all our finds, i turned out I miss counted, we now have a total of 526. Ooops.

I’m not sure exactly how many gallons of water are in Lake Murray, I bet it is a lot, but I do know that the Emperor passed the 113,000 mile mark on our way out of town this morning.

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Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 864

Flirting With A Maverick Meerkat

Unlike a year and a half ago, this version of Ubuntu (10.10) recognized my laptop’s wireless card right off. Might have been because it is a new laptop, but there were a lot of advances in the software too. The Software Center is great, taking out almost all the geekiness needed to load programs under Linux and it came preloaded with most anything anyone would need. My big problem was the stuff required to do geocaching was sparse and what of it that was available, didn’t work as well as GSAK and it required a healthy dose of that previously mentioned geekiness.

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Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 862

Where’s The Cheese?

Where does your supermarket keep the grated parmesan cheese? We went grocery shopping this evening and that item was on the list. The most logical place to have it, we thought, would be on the same aisle as the pasta and spaghetti sauces, but it was nowhere to be found there. We did eventually find some, there was a display of the store brand stuff on an island near the refrigerated cheeses. Oddly enough there was another small display of parmesan cheese in the frozen food section on the aisle with the ice cream and frozen desserts.

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Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 860

Status Quo


Lake Jocasse from Devils Fork State Park

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Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 860

10/10/10

This year is the 10th anniversary of geocaching and as a way of celebrating:

The geocaching community is attempting to break the record for number of accounts that logged caches in a single day. Currently that number stands at 56,654. Even one log on 10-10-10 counts since we are tallying how many accounts log a cache, rather than the number of caches logged.

There were gobs of events around the world and probably one or two locally to help get folks out caching and logging. Donna and I planned to do a little caching today, in the manner in which we usually cache, by ourselves. But after yesterday’s trip we decided to scratch our grandiose plans of finding 10 caches on 10/10/10 and figured we would just go get one. We had no clue which one, but wanted something close by.

Last night as I sat in front of the PC logging yesterday’s geocaching adventures an email alert came in of a new cache. I opened it up expecting to that it was 18 or 19miles away in Augusta, it wasn’t, it was .5 miles away. After briefly toying with the idea of trying to be the First To Find, we opted to use this cache as our 1 for ten-ten-ten.

We slept in a little this morning and had pancakes for breakfast. I checked the cache and sure enough, a couple of folks claimed the first to find last night at 9:20,so we grabbed the GPS on our way out to do some grocery shopping, thinking that we would get the Kissing Your Sister prize of Second To Find. We arrived at ground zero and started to search around. I had left the PDA at home so we had no idea what size container we were looking for, nor any clues if available. So we only gave a half-hearted 5 minute hunt before leaving empty handed.

Well, the record attempt requirements didn’t say anything about finds, just logs, so a DNF was just as good.

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Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 860