TucsonThompsen

Just a hello and Happy Holdiays (Festivus included! ) to all my homies in SD. Thought you'd all get a kick out of this photo of my Andrew, my 4 month old, with his first ever geocache. Yup...TucsonThompsen Mk. II. Cache #1! (Harmon...go easy on the photoshopping!) --TT--

I definitely will try to make it! I had a bunch of fun with the Tucson crew when I went to Yuma #2. I hope to see some of my SD homies make the drive out as well! --TT--

Just getting reafy to jet to the airport for my flight out West tonight, and I'd thought I'd run a PQ just to see what was new around my old place cache-wise. dadgum. When I left in July '05, I had a radius of my top 20 caches out to 22.1 miles. The top 500 nearest to my old house now only goes out to 12.5 miles. How am I ever going to be able to clear that in one weekend? It'll be great to see whomever shows up on Sunday! Looking forward to it. And as with all "TT sightings in the field", bring your puzzle cache questions. I usually answer all of them. --TT--

Yes.....the progeny is here. Andrew Garratt Thompsen, born 6:15 AM 8/14/06. 8 lb 9 oz., 22" (aka fat-a** or Big-boy). APGAR: 1min = 8 , 5 min = 9 (go Andrew!) Mom is doing well after delivery and passes along her thanks to everyone! As for me...well....Just a wreck.....After one meconium filled diaper change this morning I've had my fill (pardon the pun). But everything is well and he's a beautiful child. Barely cries at all...which I'm sure won't last. Oh dear Lord.....how do I puzzle cache now?!?!? Thanks to all the SD crowd for the well-wishes and support and I'm sure I'll be posting a lot more photos here soon! --TT--

Really.....shouldn't this thread be called, "Calling Stanfurd Cachers"? Go Bears! --TT-- Cal '96

quote] Want some donuts little girl? Harmon, Remember. 70's era conversion vans drive on the LEFT side of the road, so the sliding door may be on the wrong side for you. Replace bags of candy with pints of Guiness though, and should have no problems. -------------------------- Ireland?!?! Lucky sod! Get to Galway if you can. And definitely under all dire circumstances tour the Guiness brewery in Dublin. Do NOT order black and tans while in the Republic. --TT--

Actually, I know a couple of cachers who tried out for the show: Flagman and John&Jess went to the local try outs in San Diego at the PB Bar and Grill calling themselves "Team Show me the Cache". Appraently Flagman and J&J didn't have enough of the "SD T&A" factor in their favour given the appearance of the San Diego team that DID make it on there. ANd truth be said, Flagman and John and Jess as some of the best puzzlers I know And would've wiped the floor with those puzzles they threw at them tonight. I mean....Morse code? Uhh....been there done that. Now I want to see them bust a Vigenere in the field without a keyword. That'd be some real puzzling. That said...I'm hooked. Gotta watch. -TT--

As living on the East Coast has but one benefit, I'd thought I'd share that all with you: I get to see Prime Time first. And I'm watching the Treasures Hunters show... Lemme just say, there is a team from SD and it's pretty clear why Tom, and J&J did not make the cut. Politely put, let's just say that they....couldn't fill out the demographic for San Diego. And I"m thoroughly unimpressed with the puzzles in it so far. The puzzle crew could probably have busted them in about...oh five minutes on a bad day. Praise indeed. --TT--

Dropped a COMPLETE set of Yrium Memorial Series cards in Cerebral Codex (GCVJXQ) It's a bit of a hike to get them.... But well worth the adventure. --TT--

Just watching a little CNN Anderson Cooper 360° right now. Quick! Someone tell him to reach down and to his left. He's standing 10 ft from my Geocache at Border Field State Park! Seriously! get that man a GPSr! --TT--

The time has come. I am activating the Bat signal to summon together the League of Extraordinary Puzzlers. I hereby summon FlagMan, John& Jess, Team Adelos, Duncan!, Pqcachers, Chuy, Senior Slueths, S&R, and anyone else who has two cents to chip in on this! The gentleman who brought you "Choreographed Chaos" are back. Cerebral Codex: (GCVJXQ) --TT--

Happy Fun ball has noticed the "war". Happy Fun Ball is not amused. Happy Fun Ball reserves the right to activate pre-placed caches he left behind....and make them nasty puzzles. DO NOT TAUNT HAPPY FUN BALL. --TT--

The expected due date is on or around August 9th. So I'm pretty much saving all those vacation days I can until then. Thanks for everyone's well-wishes and support. We truly appreciate it! --TT-- (of course, Cow Spots only posts the good pictures. He won't post that picture of the time he made Cow Spot, Jr. retrieve a cache in a drain pipe like a sapper in Nam, will he?)

Folks, Sorry for my recent disappearance from the threads and all, but shockingly real life has gotten in the way. Anywho, as some of you know, Kary and I are pregnant (well....she is and I just stand dumbly by pointing and saying yup....that's my work!). And found out recently that......... . . . . . <drumroll> It's going to be a boy!!!!!! Andrew Garratt Thompsen is the name we've settled on for now. I'll post some ultrasound shots when I unpack the scanner from our move. As I said....real life getting in the way for LocaRoja and I. --TT--

Word up! --TT--

Heh..... In Cali it's spoken for. --TT--

Dangit. I hate when I forget to clear cookies and post under Kary's account. Apply the previous message to my account. Yeah...and if you all see some crazy redhead walking around the Convention Center at the SOT conference this week with the last name of Thompson....yeah that's Locaroja (with future mini-TT). Say hi to her. Anyways. Yeah. Blackmail. Good stuff. -TT--

And sometimes they forget where they put them...something that we can all be grateful for! Oh....I know where they are.....within about 200 ft or so. 'Course....that's gonna rankle even the most ardent cacher if my accuracy is off by that much. Next time I feel like abusing myself by hiking/clearing out for the bazillionth time MTRP, I'll be sure to get those coords again. But in the meantime if someone stumbles across an unlogged ammo can and/or a 3 x 6 tupperware somewhere in the vicinity between the bridge at TierraSanta and Cowles Moutnain with the words TT's MTRP Nuisance Cache on it. Feel free to log it and let me know the exact coords. Till then.... --TT--

If you are getting up to the La Jolla/ PB area, try the following for ocean view regular-sized caches: Sunset Cache (GCGKNF) or La Jolla View (GCHXQN) If you want a couple of puzzles with ocean views try: Yada Yada Yada (the cache about nothing) (GCJM47) Ka xi'ik teech utsil! (GCKG4T) For the truest ocean-view cache in SD, try Yukon Diving (GCR8V3) --TT--

Better go tell $kimmer that. I think she missed that memo. --TT--

I now get plenty of arm exercise shoveling all this GD snow out here!!! The % arm fat is dropping. --TT--

Umm...let's see. PJ Mon's Rainforest Cache found: 1/23/2005 Arm Broken 1/23/2005. Surgery 1/23/2005 (propofol is some good shi.......) Discharged 1/25/2005 Next cache found: 1/29/2005 So about six days out of commission. OK...I've torqued Pat enough. I'll remove the photo. --TT--

I'd have to say that Puzzle density depends solely on the active cachers in the area, and their love/hate for the puzzle cache. Personally, I really enjoy the puzzle caches and enjoy making them for others. It's true that they are not everyone's cup of tea, but they serve a niche. Just as long hike caches, hellacious urban micros, paddle only caches, or the cache-and-dash power trails serve for others. When I first started getting into caching big time, I had just moved to San Diego. Surprisingly for as active a geo-community as SD is, there weren't a lot of puzzles. There were about 15 or 20 puzzle icons total in that metro area out of about 1200 total caches. Myself and a few other puzzle geeks then started placing a few more and it took off like wildfire. Now in the SD Metro Area there are about 250 puzzle caches!! Including the whole of SD county there are about 400! New Jersey (where I now live) has just over 125 for the whole state. Not nearly as active a puzzle community as other areas I've been to. For a true puzzle Mecca, just take a trip to the South Bay (San Jose, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara) out in California, or around Seattle. These two places tend to be some of the larger puzzle dense cache areas that I've seen. The other upshot of the puzzle is that for most you can try to solve them remotely before going hunting. I enjoy taking a look at the other parts of the nation and trying to solve puzzles from all over. It gives good insight into how others design puzzles and what is popular to design these days. (Please for the love of God no more Su Doku puzzles!!!) Anyone know of any other puzzle dense areas across the nation? Keep on puzzlin'!!! --TT--

Pat, Let's be fair. It was ONLY 15 pieces. 14 of which have healed up nicely with one floater still hanging around in my triceps somewhere. And it was a little more than a "flesh wound" (oh you know it's time for a token re-appearance of your fav photo) <barf mode> http://img.Groundspeak.com/user/aac1496d-8...53b10be4a93.jpg </barf mode> BTW...Saw "Spamalot" on Broadway last month. Very very funny! Must see if you're a Python fanatic! --TT--

Don't forget to pack your 15' ladder so you can do #3. Bwah-hah-hah-hahhh! DocDiTTo, Trust me.....you don't NEED a ladder. If you don't mind standing and beating up the ol' rental car (and honestly, isn't that what they are there for) then you can get this one. The Cowboys say that you need a ladder. And it's probably safer to do it that way. Less manly. But safer. --TT--