Lady Loki
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I like puzzles that I can solve. It's something to do when I can't get out and look for caches that's still caching-related. Of course, the ones I can solve aren't that difficult...
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Wow... I think we've found the anti-kablooey."Longest Slump 3940 consecutive days without a find from 09/18/2001 to 07/01/2012" Is that a record by any chanceI've known people with multi-year slumps before, but that 10+ years is impressive.
I was gone for 5 years, I think, but yeah, 10+ years is impressive!
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Ugh for this last couple weeks the heat has been a monster here, I have actually had plenty of time to go caching but declined due to the heat, how is everyone else coping, and has it slowed down your caching?
I have no choice right now but to cache in the heat. I am on a five week vacation in Italy reconectoing with some cousins I have not seen on 37 years, while they are working I am gaching this week under the Tuscan sun. The temps are about 100 and the caches are well spread out (maybe a few miles appart) I just carry lots of water one liter with me when out of the car and one in the car,and keep drinking it. They will last me about 3 or 4 hours. Some of the caches here are old school, get out of the car and hike and even a little 1/2 mile is a challenge hiking up a hill in 100 degree weather an being 62 years old adds to the challege. In closing do not sit home grab a bunch of water an just do it.
Even in a city like florence you have to walk to the caches, driving is not an option, but who care it's Florence. Who cares about the heat when you are caching in Italy.
Not good advice when the heat can cause someone with physical limitations some very serious problems. I've been in the hospital enough this year already, I'd rather not go back just yet.
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Some folks will just complain to complain, so you can't win.
Don't let them with no life run yours.
Oh TOP!
WELL SAID !!
this should be copied and pasted onto a LOT of threads around here.
the most recent being the one where the whole gang of you showed up to belittle the poor guy that wanted to share his good news about a great deal on magnetic key holders.
maybe we'll read in the news tomorrow that he's jumped off a bridge in shame.
shame on you all.
... I think you may be taking things a little too seriously around here....
That always seems to be the excuse from this gang.
do you think that the guy with the magnetic key holders thought
all of your bullying comments were CUTE ??
it was no different than the punks on the school bus brutally attacking the innocent bus aide.
do you think that the National News took this too seriously ??
or the college student that outed his gay roommate on a 'public forum' much like this one.
the guy 'killed himself' by jumping off a bridge.
did the national news take that one too seriously too ??
you guys should all appologise to that poor guy to hopefully
prevent 'him' from jumping off a bridge.
you've ALL been 'out of control' for WAY too long
and it's WAY past time that TPTB reined you in BIG TIME.
go play in the little playground that you've created for yourself (OFF TOPIC FORUMS),
and STOP your bullying.
if you've got nothing nice to say, then don't say anything.
Whoa, dude. I didn't even comment in that thread, and you're assuming a whole lot about me, which I really don't appreciate. (Since you replied to my post, I'm guessing it was directed at me... if not, you might want to be more clear next time.)
I didn't know I was in a gang. But honestly, you don't see a difference between a discussion about magnetic key holders and dragging someone out of the closet? I was unaware that magnetic key holders comprised a large part of the poster's identity... learn something new every day.
We all seen how you picked on poor Thor, for shame on you Loki
Being that this topic has changed how awesome was the avengers?!Pfft, picked on him... he was always Daddy's favorite!
Avengers was seriously awesome, though! -
Make sure the tictac box has a broken flap.
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The heat has slowed us down, but it's the yo-yoing temps and humidity that are killing me. We've been getting rainstorms every day or every other day, which changes the temperature by 30 degrees and increases the already ridiculous humidity; my arthritis and fibromyalgia are kicking my butt. I currently look like I'm trying to be a mummy, with both knees and an ankle wrapped, and that means no caching, since nobody in the house really likes park and grabs.
Mostly we're just holing up in the house or staying in the pool. I hope the heat breaks soon.
ETA: Admittedly, we're pretty slow to begin with... I can't cache every day, and even when I do, we search for maybe 3 or 4 at a time.
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Some folks will just complain to complain, so you can't win.
Don't let them with no life run yours.
Oh TOP!
WELL SAID !!
this should be copied and pasted onto a LOT of threads around here.
the most recent being the one where the whole gang of you showed up to belittle the poor guy that wanted to share his good news about a great deal on magnetic key holders.
maybe we'll read in the news tomorrow that he's jumped off a bridge in shame.
shame on you all.
... I think you may be taking things a little too seriously around here....
That always seems to be the excuse from this gang.
do you think that the guy with the magnetic key holders thought
all of your bullying comments were CUTE ??
it was no different than the punks on the school bus brutally attacking the innocent bus aide.
do you think that the National News took this too seriously ??
or the college student that outed his gay roommate on a 'public forum' much like this one.
the guy 'killed himself' by jumping off a bridge.
did the national news take that one too seriously too ??
you guys should all appologise to that poor guy to hopefully
prevent 'him' from jumping off a bridge.
you've ALL been 'out of control' for WAY too long
and it's WAY past time that TPTB reined you in BIG TIME.
go play in the little playground that you've created for yourself (OFF TOPIC FORUMS),
and STOP your bullying.
if you've got nothing nice to say, then don't say anything.
Whoa, dude. I didn't even comment in that thread, and you're assuming a whole lot about me, which I really don't appreciate. (Since you replied to my post, I'm guessing it was directed at me... if not, you might want to be more clear next time.)
I didn't know I was in a gang. But honestly, you don't see a difference between a discussion about magnetic key holders and dragging someone out of the closet? I was unaware that magnetic key holders comprised a large part of the poster's identity... learn something new every day.
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Some folks will just complain to complain, so you can't win.
Don't let them with no life run yours.
Oh TOP!
WELL SAID !!
this should be copied and pasted onto a LOT of threads around here.
the most recent being the one where the whole gang of you showed up to belittle the poor guy that wanted to share his good news about a great deal on magnetic key holders.
maybe we'll read in the news tomorrow that he's jumped off a bridge in shame.
shame on you all.
... I think you may be taking things a little too seriously around here....
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I've found preforms at about that price. I like them for lots of reasons as micros:
1) They stay dry, and don't require a o-ring gasket.
2) The lids can usually be replaced from liter bottle if the are damaged or lost
3) the are very strong
4) Logs slide in and out easily.
5) very cheap (even cheaper than the Walmart $0.89 matchsticks)
Obviously larger caches are better (IMO) than small caches, but when you just gotta hid a micro, preforms are my favorite.
Where do you get them? I've always wondered that...
online. Google "soda preform"
I agree with the poster that cheap cache containers are often associated with low-quality caches; but not always. Be creative, find awesome places to hide them, create interesting themes, puzzles, and stories. Cheap is not necessarily bad.
Duh. That makes sense. I'll plead stress and heat making my brain not work.
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I've found preforms at about that price. I like them for lots of reasons as micros:
1) They stay dry, and don't require a o-ring gasket.
2) The lids can usually be replaced from liter bottle if the are damaged or lost
3) the are very strong
4) Logs slide in and out easily.
5) very cheap (even cheaper than the Walmart $0.89 matchsticks)
Obviously larger caches are better (IMO) than small caches, but when you just gotta hid a micro, preforms are my favorite.
Where do you get them? I've always wondered that...
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Your link for the Illinois cache is directed to the Indiana one.
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On the one mentioned above I did e-mail the CO, kind of thought I might get a curtesy response but didn't & haven't. I will watch that cache and see if anyone finds it before I ever go back. But here is my question, why are there still caches out there with several DNF's and not being found for more than a year and still posted? To be clear on some of these I have not contacted the owner in some but others have the same owner who I can see is an current person who finds caches so it makes me wonder why they don't just post a note so we know whether we are blind or it may have been muggled. You don't have to send e-mails to everyone - (at least I don't thinke) just post a note and let us know you give a care of the over 100 caches you have hidden in a series.
I have enjoyed caching and I just think I will keep in mind some of what I am reading here when I go to set out my first finds. I will probably be one who will check things and post notes so everyone can see the cache is taken care of rather than just an e-mail to those who take the time to e-mail. I won't post hints in a note just that I checked and it is there... an e-mail will be required and a pointed question for a hint.
Reviewers don't take action on something unless there's an NA posted, from my understanding. Which makes sense... if they had to go through all the cache listings in their area to monitor DNFs, it would be at least a full-time job, if not more.
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Another off topic.....
Did you know George Lucas used to autocross, and he painted a famous yellow and black Shelby Cobra that helped Shelby win a championship?
Mmmm, Shelby Cobra....
True fact: My husband and I met on a Star Wars forum. Along with quite a few people we're still friends with. One was a housemate for a while, and another one (Silvertongue) has moved in permanently. Crazy world.
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I'm one of Loki's girls. Pretty simple, really.
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I use both a gps and smartphone if I have never had that big a gap with finding a cache worst was I forgot my gps and had to use my phone in some deep wooded areas and was 35 feet off
I am talking worse case and in a suburban or urban environment. The multipath interference can actually be worse between two houses or apartment buildings than in a forest. Also some smart phones will use WiFi to supplement and sometimes instead of the GPS signals. You have a better chance of getting a WiFi signal near a bunch of houses than near a bunch of trees. You just have to read the forums to find examples of this.
Our neighbor gets our wifi signal clearly in his house, but only when he plugs his phone in.
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I got a new one. I was playing Fallout 3 yesterday and saw a guard rail, and mentioned to LokiBit, "Ok, I'm really bad. I saw that and just wondered if there was a cache in it..."
(It's new to me, anyway.)
Geocaching, to me, is a method to overcome ones fears.. such as sticking your hand blithely into unknown, filthy places.. like guardrails!Especially in Fallout 3, which is a post-apocalyptic/"after the A-bombs fell everywhere" video game with such lovely things as giant cockroaches, scorpions, and "feral Ghouls" (people so far gone from radiation sickness that they essentially act like fast zombies).
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I got a new one. I was playing Fallout 3 yesterday and saw a guard rail, and mentioned to LokiBit, "Ok, I'm really bad. I saw that and just wondered if there was a cache in it..."
(It's new to me, anyway.)
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So given the path this topic has taken, and with respect to the OP, does anyone know of any air-conditioned indoor parking lot caches in Phoenix?
And by the way, it was only slightly warmer in Phoenix today than it was in southern New Hampshire. Does anybody know of any indoor (and preferably air-conditioned) geocaches in southern New Hampshire?
Or in northwest Indiana/southeast Chicago suburbs?
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thank you for your response. I know a lot of you cache owners travel and enjoy life beyond geocaching. I sure wish I could. I don't expect an immediate answer to my question regarding a cache that I thing needs Maintenance or may be missing but If I get no response in a month and then no response to a followup message to the cache owner I feel the cache owner is not being responsible. Maybe in their zeal to propogate so many caches some COs lose control of how many they can maintain. I know and appreciate the work a cache owner puts in making their hide special so thank you for that effort. If you are out of town a simple message to a geocacher letting him know you will check it when you get back to the area would be nice.
thank you
Timk54
Dunno. There seems to be quite a bit of entitlement in your posts. No. A CO is not required to respond to your DNFs. No. A CO is not required to run right out and check on your DNF. (Example: Someone DNFed the second stage of one of my multi caches last January. I finally got out to check last weekend. It was still there. They are very good cachers, so I did rate it as a 40% chance being missing. But it was still there. It is a rather steep 300' climb over a very rocky area. Took me over three hours to check on the stage.)
I've got a number of caches with strenuous hikes to get to them. They may not get found often, but they are usually very nice caches in great places. If your sense of entitlement prevails, (that a CO MUST respond immediately, that a CO must respond to your DNF) then I would probably archive about half my caches. PNG is the only thing that fits your demands. What this sport was, originally, was taking people on a nice hike to a pretty place. Those endowed with entitlement seek immediate responses/CO checks.
Ignore caches that annoy you. How simple is that! Stop making unreasonable demands. Go find a lamp post cache. That will keep you happy.
Um, perhaps I read it differently from you, but I didn't see the OP demanding that the cache owner respond to DNFs... the OP sent an actual message, from what I understand. And they did say that after waiting a month, they sent a second message. So... not sure what that's all about.
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Donnell said after surveillance video is reviewed, police will probably release more details about the subjects suspected of being involved in placing the object.
Suspects? They confirmed that it was just a Geocache, why are these guys still being called "suspects"? They obviously weren't intending to cause a bomb scare. What are they going to charge them with, littering?
Just to note, the article said "subjects suspected", which isn't quite the same thing as calling them "suspects".
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I think I am mostly addicted to looking at geocaching maps. I've always been fascinated by maps. I wish I had Google maps when I was a kid. Now I stare at the satellite images all day, looking for caches and ways to get to them. ^^
Yup, me too. And when I see an interesting place, I think, "I wonder if there's a cache there, or if I could place one there if there's not." Or we'll pass someplace I've seen on the map as having a cache and tell everyone in the car, "There's a cache there!" (They usually ignore me, except the 4 year old. He always asks if we can go find it.
)And I admit that I look at containers and go, "Hmm, I wonder if that'd be waterproof enough for this climate?"
ETA: Oh, and reading logs! I do that a lot.
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Ironically, while reading this thread I got a phone call from someone wanting to talk to my husband in connection with a "settlement" conference tomorrow. When I asked her what it was about, she stammered around and finally pulled out the "Well, you're not on this account, so I can't give you any information," so I told her that with no information, there's no way to know she's legit, and she said she'd just call back later. (I suspect it's in regards to our mortgage, but really... I'm supposed to just be all "Oh, ok! Sure, I have no idea what you're talking about or who you or your firm are, but I'll wake my husband up, who by the way works nights, so he can talk to you! Why don't I give you some social security numbers and bank account info while I'm at it?")
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One parking garage cache I found was horrid. The coords were off, which made sense since my gps was reading a difference of 18 feet or so. Also, it was up to the cached to determine what floor it was on.
UGH. That sounds frustrating as all heck.
Being that this topic has changed how awesome was the avengers?!
That said, our houses are like 15 to 20 feet apart (we have very narrow lots).
Geocaching, to me, is a method to overcome ones fears.. such as sticking your hand blithely into unknown, filthy places.. like guardrails!
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I haven't gotten spam in either of the emails I've used here.