Mark 42

How does one become a "Charter Member"? I became a premium member, but I can't seem to change my "Title". How is that done? When will I receive my "Handsome Tote Bag" as a thankyou for becoming a member? "I'm not Responsible... just ask my wife, She'll confirm it"

"see <--?" See what? Anyway, I do get aggravated when eBay sellers say that they won't let me pay with a credit card via PayPal because they get charged 3 percent. What that says to me, is, on a $10 item my business isn't worth 30¢ to that seller. I would like to see a discount on the second membership. For now, I think I'll sign myself up, and see if it comes about in the future. Besides, that way I can have access to cache's my wife can't log finds to, which will give me an advantage in the stats race. "I'm not Responsible... just ask my wife, She'll confirm it" [This message was edited by Mark 42 on September 10, 2003 at 11:46 AM.]

I lived in a little town called Trinity... Trinity Alabma (Kanzler Compound 34.56226 -87.11892 http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?origin_lat=34.562264&origin_long=-87.118916 to be more precise. I worked in Huntsville at Redstone Arsenal. "I'm not Responsible... just ask my wife, She'll confirm it"

Have y'all considered something like $15 for the second family member, and $10 (or $7.50) for each one thereafter, as long as they are from the same family/household? Honestly, I'd pay $40 for a double membership (wife & me), and probably $45 for a double membership, but $50 or more gets into the realm of "I can live with just a single membersip easily enough". Now, that's just me. You can point out that there are more expensive hobbies and entertainment forms, and that it's a bargain for the amount of fun one gets in exchange, etc., but ultimately, I would get enough out of one premium membership to justify the expenditure, but two membersips at full price is not that great a value, for me

Also, has there been any consideration to my idea for a family rate. If my wife and I don't both sign up for premium memberships, but we both find the "Members Only" caches, will only one of us be able to log our visit(s) online? I'd imagine with a bit of internet savvy there may be a devious way to log an entry into a members only cache for a non-premium account... but that's inconvenient

I notice there are two annual rate options, the second being Annual Premium Membership (Renews Annually). Does that mean it automatically renews and bills your PayPal account each year w/o asking for approval? Is the other option still renewable, and will I get a reminder when it is nearly expired?

Very Nice. BTW, I'm still waitnig for the other shoe to drop... "I usually laminate it and either stick it to the inside of the ammo can."

Okay, back to environmentalism... which is just a form of religious fanaticism. "I'm not Responsible... just ask my wife, She'll confirm it"

A friend is a friend... but a buddy is someone you can sleep with. "I'm not Responsible... just ask my wife, She'll confirm it"

quote:Originally posted by woof & lulu: Thanks for the tip on packing tape. Believe it or not, spraying it with clearcoat is actually easier. I have a hobby shop in my basement, so I just grab the clear spray paint (like Duplicolor Clearcoat from the Automotive section of Walmart) and spray one side, let it dry and then do the other side the following day. I have used a lacquer, and the stuff from craft stores (enamel?) but I'm going to try the Duplicolor stuff tonight on some Geocaching Logo bumper stickers I'm making for our cars. I suspect it will be really good for the purpose. "I'm not Responsible... just ask my wife, She'll confirm it"

Today's Krylon could be tomorrow's "Tribal cave paintings". The cave on my property in Alabama supposedly had indian cave paintings in it. As I said, I never got a chance to check it out. I regret that now though.

I had thought about suggesting two per page... From Adobe (here at work anyway) I can click "Print", then "Properties" then set "Pages per sheet" to "2", but that may not be the same on all systems(?). The clear packaging tape works well for laminating. If it needs to be waterproof, overlap the tape about 1/8" and let it stick out about 1/8" past the edge of the paper all around (from both sides) so that even the edge of the paper cannot get wet. "I'm not Responsible... just ask my wife, She'll confirm it"

quote:Originally posted by Pantalaimon:Cache contents stolen by a cache pirate were found and returned by the Nude Cacher.Nude Cacher & Co. may have had fun with this whole situation. I bet nothing spurs the will of the pirate like successfully returned cache contents, and people having fun while doing it. Comments?. It's not a lot of fun to spend an hour or more looking for a cache that some idiot has moved or plundered. Basically, there's this thing called respect... if you want to place a cache, do so... but leave other people's caches hidden the way you found them. "I'm not Responsible... just ask my wife, She'll confirm it"

quote:Originally posted by TBismine:YO-HO-HO I haven't moved a single cache,nor took all the contents and moved them somewhere else. This is a public game. If you don't like the game because there are no referees I suggest you find another. There is nothing you can do if somebody steals,moves,or paints your cache bright fluorescent orange.So why say anything at all. Do you park your car in any public places? What if I think it'd be a fun "Game" to paint it flourescent orange and park it a few miles away? One of these days, you are going to find out what people can do to protect their property. As someone pointed out, when you place something (e.g. a campsite) in the woods, it is still yours. As long as someone values it, it is not litter. Since you know that it is of value to someone, you cannot claim ignorance of its value. "I'm not Responsible... just ask my wife, She'll confirm it"

Two words, first one "Dumb" second one... (hint, not "idiot") "I'm not Responsible... just ask my wife, She'll confirm it"

Oh geeze... I'm supposed to keep track? Shoot me now! "I'm not Responsible... just ask my wife, She'll confirm it"

quote:Originally posted by Xitron:I love that song Carly Simon is supposedly gonna auction the answer to who that song is about... but the winner can't tell anyone! http://www.carlysimon.com/vain/vain.htm

If you lose track of whether or not a cache is on your watch list, and you click "Watch this cache", it will remove it from your watch list if it was already on it. "I'm not Responsible... just ask my wife, She'll confirm it"

Show him this cache: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=38643 "I'm not Responsible... just ask my wife, She'll confirm it"

Would those who have been to the first cache log another find when they go back to it to do the multi? "I'm not Responsible... just ask my wife, She'll confirm it"

Thanks for the compliments guys... all I really did was paste in the standard Groundspeak-Geocache logo and put a little color in two rows of the text. I was really pleased with how it looked once I figured out how to put the text beside the graphic... that really brought it together aesthetically and (as you said) gave balance, but the idea to put the text there was as much stumbling into it by trial as it was any sort of sense of aesthetics. I have (in the past) sprayed both sides of ink jet printouts with a spray lacquer (I intend to try the "Duplicolor" Clearcoat from Schucks, Walmart, or other dept/auto stores) with good results. I used an inkjet with ordinary paper and sprayed it with clear spraypaint to make labels for my home brewed beer (it's been about 7 or 8 yrs since I last brewed a batch ) It worked great... held up well to the moisture that condensed on the outside of those nice cold bottles of beer... Gotta go, I'm gettin thirsty! "I'm not Responsible... just ask my wife, She'll confirm it" [This message was edited by Mark 42 on September 06, 2003 at 05:29 PM.]

I loosened all of the allen bolts that hold the engine side-cover on, showed him how to take the first one out and put it in the little container to keep them all together, gave him the wrench, guided him on the next two. Then my wife started video taping him, and I just stepped back and watched. I then said "I'm going upstairs to get a beer... do you want one? He replied "Apple juice please". So I left him to keep unscrewing bolts, with instructions to leave the last one in... and went upstair to get beer and apple juice. I had him stop when he got to the last bolt so I could hold the cover in place while he removed it, and that was the only help I gave him for all the rest of the bolts. They do enjoy helping. "I'm not Responsible... just ask my wife, She'll confirm it" [This message was edited by Mark 42 on September 06, 2003 at 05:15 PM.]

quote:Originally posted by The_Rocks:Here is a PDF version ... let me know if you have difficulty getting it. I got an error that said:There was an error processing a page. A font contains a bad CMap/Encoding. Xitron... I'm not sure what you mean. I have MS Office at work (and Adobe Acrobat) that our sys admin installs on all of our PC's. As far as .DOC and .PDF files, they're pretty safe, and my company has an excellent firewall. (I don't download executables to my work PC). The Hijack cleaner was for our home PC... we installed a firewall too. We ended up using SpyBot, AdAware and finally a program called "Hijack This" before we finally got rid of the file that Hijacked our PC. You can read the saga HERE. (I'd advise everyone read it because some of the guys responded with the fact that when they ran the detect/destroy spyware function they found out there was a whole lot of stuff on their PC's w/o their knowledge). "I'm not Responsible... just ask my wife, She'll confirm it"

My 5 year old is almost ready to be taught how to use a pocket knife, but for now, I'll stick to blunt tools (like in these pictures when he was 4 yrs old...) "I'm not Responsible... just ask my wife, She'll confirm it"

If anyone wants to make it into a .PDF file, zip it, or even do something different, I won't be offended. I don't have MS Office installed here at home, so I can't even use it... which is why I printed it at work (on a color laser printer), and will scan it to make a jpeg for future use. 'course, first I have to find out if the sacnner is working after we recovered from having our computer Hijacked this week... "I'm not Responsible... just ask my wife, She'll confirm it"