TucsonThompsen

Ready for Saturday, all? --TT--

Fear update: Well...Looks like we are still an all go for Sat. Nov. 19th. SO far on board are: Karrooite Trowel32 Ekitt10 LocaRoja Quoddy TucsonThompsen More are of course, gladly welcome to join us in this attempt. The plan so far is to meet a 10 AM in La Tourette Park. I'll update with parking location(s) shortly. From karrooite's pre-reconnoitering, it appears that there is a semi-easy trail to within about 0.15 of GZ from the park, and then some bushwhacking to the clearing near GZ. From there.....well that's the mystery. --TT--

Kip: Harmon, don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with the Geobabes all day. Besides, we both know that I'm training to be a cage fighter.

That's a good question. Who do you think is out there deserving cards who's not got one yet? I would love to see cards for: d-jollymon. (Hey 'mon. there's got to be some Jamaican ting one could do 'ees card 'mon.) p.wood GoBolt(s)! QDMan Radical Geezer fisnjack --TT--

What's that old adage.....something about imitation and flattery Puzzle cache poaching....it's all good. (GCR8Y8) vs. (GCN9N0) --TT--

Now someone puts a SCUBA cache in SD?!?!? After I leave? Grab your BCD and 7 mill suit! FTF-ing wouldn't have been a problem as my buddy (shameless plug) Jake at the Diving Locker in PB did my check-out dives with me for my Scuba cert by diving to the HCMS Yukon. He leads dive trips to the Yukon quite regularly. It's a very very cool wreck. About 350 ft long, and in 100 ft of water. Lots of reef life has taken to it. My only regret when I dove to it, it was poor vis (~15 ft.) and the wreck was under the thermocline making it a bone-chilling dive with water temp of 49°F. Boggis can back me up on this, but I once talked with him about putting a SCUBA cache on the Yukon or one of the other wrecks just offshore. I would have too, except for the prohibitive cost of maintaining it. ~$40- $60 to charter a boat to go out there plus air tank fills. Also I thought it would get muggled very easily. The Yukon is a very popular wreck to dive off SD. With the amount of traffic that this wreck gets, I wouldn't be surprised to see it go missing. The underwater one that was in La Jolla Cove went missing two days after it was placed. Underwater caches in SD just don't have a good history of lasting very long. That being said., who in SD is SCUBA certed? I know Boggis and Mudface are. Anyone else? My FTF money is on Boggis. --TT--

Well...to be fair, Serious Black (while a really neat idea in pissing cachers off trying to log a cache) was not placed well by me. In retrospect I could've picked a better area and it was pretty far away for me to maintain. Geocaching Geometry, on the other hand, was a really good one in my opinion, with a fun last little bit to log the cache. Unfortunately, I had to archive it given that I pretty much destroyed my left elbow and that made it at the time impossible for me to replace. I gave it to SlideRule as he begged me to give it to him when I moved away, but I see he has sat on it, and not replaced it. That's a pity. Any locals want to see if they can get him to give it up so this goodie can be re-activated. That would make me happy. And you all want me to be happy, don't you? --TT--

Ask and ye shall receive...... (Everything but the solutions that is) The Complete TT San Diego Cache List --TT--

I actually just got "sponsored" for terracaching.com. I'm not sure what it's all about but it seems to be the caching site for those who only want extreme challenges. And it has more of a community policing system it seems. It does take several veiled jabs at GC.com on its front page, so that's a little off-putting. But I'm going to go after my 1st TerraCache after work tonight. I'll give it the benefit of the doubt, but it seems to have a small chip on its shoulder at the get-go. </my $0.02> --TT--

The funniest (oddest) "prize" I found in a cache was a Home pregnancy test. It was still in the box of course. But what's funny about it, was the name of the cache I found it in: (GCKHGJ) Talk about things that make you go..."HUH?" --TT--

Mud you say? Ask LR. This was taken not even a third of the way to WP #1 in Melvin's. --TT--

Regarding Melvin's....if you do find it, please be sure to grab the geocoin I left in there. I accidentally logged it into "Magoo's Memories of Merit" but I actually placed it into Melvin's back on 9/11/05. Speaking of a get together for an assault on a cache, I would be interested in getting a few folks together to try for splicingdan's "Fear" cache on(?) Staten Island sometime. I talked with trowel32 briefly about wanting to go for this one, but it seems perhaps safer (?) or saner to attempt this with more than one pair of eyes. Anyone Jersey locals interested? --TT--

As long as there are TT caches that are not found, there's always something to do at work! Yes, but fortunately for those non-armchair types, there are several of my puzzles that require "in-field" work. Punkte Und Spuren Monopolizing your Time TT's MTRP Nuisance Cache #3: Partnership and a few others.... Oh yeah...another thing. for all of you working on my puzzles, please feel free to e-mail me for hints. I am not the big bad wolf others' have made me out to be... well....not all the time at least. And so I'd be more than happy to nudge you in the right direction or (in the case of some) whack you over the head with the virtual 2 x 4 until you cry "I get it now!!! Uncle!! Uncle!!" Your choice. But seriously....feel free to email me for help if you get stuck. --TT--

In case you all are wondering...No Harmon is not the Tin Man...But he does have these suckers implanted in him: Yeah...rapamycin (Sirolimus) is some pretty good stuff. Definitely one of the better cell-cycle blockers out there. Glad to see someone who has benefited from this wonder drug delivery system. BTW.... I got a jar full of hundreds of spent stents on my desk. Just think Harmon...they could be your new Chotchkie calling card. --TT--

Harmon, Congrats! And now that I know you have Cypher stents in your arteries, I'll be sure to do my real work more diligently. My current project at work involves the analysis of the drug content of those Cypher stents for the company that makes them. We analyze them before they get released to surgeons for implant to make sure that they contain the drug in the right amount. Guess when someone you know is using the product, it hits home a little more closely that my work will have an impact on others' lives. --TT_-

Yeah baby!!!! Finally top of the list in something in SD!!! Almost a full point higher! Go me! </ego> --TT--

Dave, I'll take two regulars. Too hilarious! --TT--

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I'll give my top ten based on a couple of categories for San Diego County NOTE: I have recused my own caches from this list. I can't be an impartial arbiter with them. I leave that to others. Puzzles: ---------------- Zis is KAOS, Ve don't Bush-vaak here! The Artist's Secret Greta Garbo's Phone Where do You Call Home? A Modern Nursery Rhyme Local Treasure The Proctor Valley Monster Project Pop Art Binary Tree Puzzle Cache TucsonThompsen's Cache Multis: ---------------------------- Snakes and Ladders Fear Factor: Up the Rat Hole The Forbidden Forest Lassie! Get Help! Lights After Sunset Evoke Resolution Camouflage Experiment Wizard's Chess The Ride of the Headless Horseman A Tuna View of San Diego Project Delta Regulars: ---------------- Green Eggs and Ham Don't Fear the reaper Code Name: Floppy Cue Ball Sandy Creek Cowboy Cache #7 Kumeyaay Solstice Sunrise Azure Vista Spooner's Mesa Wrath Not for the Delicate --tt--

Oh man! That'd be a pretty high number for almost all of us! I would like to extend my congratulations to HelBobDuo for swearing at me subconsciously for the 423rd consecutive day! A new SD County record!!! (you said this forum was for congratulating anything right?) --TT--

And one for the tasteless side of things: Mmm.....hobbling..... --TT--

And for all of you watching at home.... Yes. Tom and I really ARE that petty. And yup...up to that day I had found all the puzzles in SD county except for Team gecko's one waaay out in Borrego. And I was driving that day to get it when I realised at Ramona that I'd left the photo printouts at home. Coulda woulda shoulda. Got home and Oh joy...a new one from Tom. I coulda been somebody.....I coulda been a contender.... --TT--

Anyone up for placing some Nuisance Caches in Sweetwater, then? For you newbies, my NC series was my proportional response to the North vs. South "MTRP Fortuna Cache Wars" back in aught-four. I still had a few percolating ideas from then I never got 'round to placing. --TT--

Ahh...the zone-clearance issue. Brings back some memories.... ------------------------------------------- Back in the day, there was a friendly and spirited competition between FlagMan and me to see who could be the first get their zone cleaned out to 20 miles. I admit that living in PB gave me the greater advantage as having 20 miles of ocean in my backyard was nice. Tom on the other hand, I would say, was more committed and had greater resources...i.e. 4WD, Mountain bike, Night Hunters keys to San Miguel Mountain, a neverending Rolodex of contacts, etc. His greatest disadvantage was well.....me. It got to be for me that just as he was closing in on the big 2-0, I'd bomb him with a new puzzle that would consume him for at least a week. I am frankly surprised I was never billed for his lost work hours. Sorry FM...now you know the real reason for my madness. My greatest day was when the two caches on top of San Miguel Mountain got archived. That brilliant stroke of genius by West Coast Admin moved my zone of clearance out to the greatest it ever was...all caches found 18.7 miles from basically Garnet and I-5. I don't know what Tom's greatest ever was, but it always seemed he was stuck on 19 miles. Than geocaching got popular. The S.C.U.M. cache phenomeon took off! RSD and Sweetwater went puzzle crazy. Every Home Depot got it's own cache. Yeah. Good luck getting that zone out to 19 again, FlagMan. I'm stuck at 7.9 miles of clearance now in NJ. The friggin' swamps are a pain! --TT--