Unkle Fester

Well, I am a single guy. There is my mom, I have sisters, nieces and nephews but as far as I know none of them geocache. Some don't even know how to use a computer. When I geocache I go with some friends. I wouldn't mind leaving my caches to a friend or someone I know from the community if I die unexpectantly. Can't Groundspeak set up some kind of cache will or something? The person or people in the will could send a notice that the person died. After conformation of death then all caches would be handed over. It can be done. I think the best way now is to hide your account info somewhere and let someone know where it is just in case. Also one of the biggest group of geocachers is retired persons usually up in age. Not a bad idea to have something set up for them. I'll just bet the the Groundspeak lackeys are waiting for the chance to review death certificates in order to transfer caches! Or would they have to dig up the deceased (or corpses) and poke them with a stick? Where do I submit my application/resume? I'm a dead ringer for the job, no pun intended.

Didn't he end up in a '57 chevy in the final (barf) season - new series - whatever? I think it would be funny to rig up the red lights in the grill and see who gets it

Ape Cache Click on logs and read mine. Originally I had written a book on the adventure we had, but had to pare it down to 4000 characters. Not only was it the ape cache, but a great time with two other cachers.

4. Disaffected current geocacher with an axe to grind against an individual cache owner, the local community in general or this website.

If you think they will feel disrespected, don't do it.

You certainly can choose to be offended, or take it as the joke it was meant to be. Personally, I take no offense and find it kind of funny, Ralph is kind of funny. Take that with a grain of salt, I run around graveyards playing "Wake the dead" with Pugsly and Wednesday too...

I don't know, its kind of fun to chuck a micro out the car window and see howclose you can get the coordinates.. Just kidding. I'm on the fence here. I don't mind the lack of view or interest, a lot of the time I cache with my kids and we turn it into a grand adventure where the cache is the central plot.

It gives me a chance to be spiteful and vindictive... Oh, wrong forum. It gets me out and moving. I agree with the post about going to places I'd never have been but it goes further than that. Geocaching has helped me lose 25 lbs in the last year and a half. I feel great.

Same thing has happened to me. Cruising the maps, caches, anything. Very annoying. I was hoping it's just a bug. I thought maybe they were trying to get people to log out when not in use to take pressure off the servers, but when logging multiple finds, and trying to write a nice log, it gets annoying. Although, this morning I logged one and it didn't drop me when I was done.

People are surprised at how close this picture really is.

I hope you dropped off a Jeep TB at that cache. That one was our first Jeep TB, and this was a TB for TB trade Specifically going back and dropping a jeep TB in the memorial cache. That would have been good irony. Would have been even funnier if he was killed by a jeep. But that's just me.

Hence the bison tube or dreaded film can hide. No swag, stag or moose and squirrel. One problem sloved, another problem perpetuated.

A hobby project for who? If you do the numbers, this site should be making a small (or regular) fortune. itsnotaboutthenumbers.com is the site that is a hobby project. It gets no money from it's users. When I tried to go there just now, I got an internal server error. Oh, I thought MM was talking about Geocaching.com I never knew a site called itsnotaboutthenumbers.com existed. If the OP had added the .com I probably wouldn't have been confused. Oh come on Bittsen! We have great confidence in your ability to get confused no matter how much info you are given. Need I even mention I'm just funn'n ya? Oh great, now I'm confused that you're confused that bittsen is confused. (Insert head popping sound here) Back on topic. Run the finds PQ (it has it's own button) copy that file to your desktop (or wherever you have the icon for itsnotaboutthenumbers). If I remember right, you had to setup the itsnotaboutthenumbers to match up to your individual PQ#, maybe I'm thinking of something else... But that sound right, you have to enter your geocacher # - Somewhere there are instructions, but I'll be darned if I can remember...

That is a great little phrase, can I use it in the future? Imagin a 6 foot tall man with a shaved head and a scowl on his face saying "I'm not a happy bunny"... ROFL! My wife and I put on an event, the log was a giant birthday card. We set it up so that you had to sign in to get a raffle ticket. Every event I've been to (over 20 of 'em) all have had some sort of log sheet, sign in, finger prints, DNA sample station, Retina scan - something to show you were there. Even the Flash mob did that. If it's not a guideline, I wouldn't mind if it was. Either way.

OK, this most likely happens to me more than most (I look like my name suggests). I was at a geocoin event in February waaaaay out of town and got approached by a guy who was telling me all kinds of things about my caching. Come to find out a local was pulling a fast one on me and everyone got a good laugh. I've always had cachers come up to me at events and figure out who I am, no problem. But recently I've had a few instances where with no outward sign of caching, people have walked up to me and asked if I was Unkle Fester. Two different days folks at work walked up and started talking, identifying me by sight. Another in the parking lot of work, and a fourth was at Lunch yesterday after church (Yes Virginia, I said church) a family walked up. They're a new family of cachers and the boys (Teen and a pre teen) were convinced of who I was and kept staring. So they all walked over to say hi. I loved the approach they had as a family, really cute and apologetic. Turns out we go to church together. They also admitted to seeing the TB on the wifes rig, that was their second clue. I told them it was not a problem, because I'm always happy to meet other cachers and chat. Gets me a little more social than I would otherwise. Great folks, all of them. On one hand, really cool talking to folks about geocaching and making new acquaintances. On the other hand, almost creepy they pick me out of a crowd. I shouldn't be surprised, but I do find it funny. Have these kinds of experiences?

Up to one satisfied customer... Dang, dude. I'm just no help to you today at all... I'm gonna go crawl back under my rock and wait for more rain.

We could create a "wheel of shame" for you if it helps... But then again, that would be one big wheel.

We could create a "wheel of shame" for you if it helps...

Ditto. To borrow a line from Clan Riffster, "Great way to get Baminated". (edit spelling)

Micro's are great for throwing out the window of the rig driving down the road... Back to reality, done right, they can be fun in the right place.

You are correct. I have not. I Googled it, in the hopes of seeing one, or maybe even buying one, but the closest I got was a comparison of film strip size, showing various mediums from 8mm to IMAX. No container pictures were included. Got pix? no pix, but the darned things are about 6" deep and 4 foot across.

Remind me to be careful when caching in Alabama... Last week Devil Hunter and I were taking turns being the webwhacker, quite by accident. So I start to drive home and an hour into the drive, he starts wigging out, a large - and I mean large spider was crawling on his neck. I thought we were going to wreck. LMAO the restof the way back.

Huh, last time I fell out of a horses saddle, my foot got tangled in the stirrup causing me to get bounced around by the horse trotting on. Just before I lost conciousness thinking this was the end, Frank the Wal-Mart greeter came over and unplugged the horse. I usually leave a route (generally) with the wife. a couple weeks ago I woke up and decided I just had to drive 350 miles to grab a cache in Canada...

They don't survive getting run over by my truck when the cache is not put back properly or critters drag them out either. Then being wet is kinda moot. Like Clan Riffster, I've found a few things to survive getting run over by the rig accidently.

Gawd, every time someone writes POPO, I think of my 4 year old talking about - potty training issues. Being in graveyards at night is illegal, harkens to laws written in the way back days when people would sneak into graveyards and dig up the bodies to search for gold teeth and jewels. No kidding. Even I have been borderline on this one a couple times. Had some unsettling occurrences too. Just 'cause I'm Unkle Fester does not make me immune to Zombies...