AuntieWeasel

You don't have to do anything beyond replacing it (if you don't want to archive it). Writing the coin owner would be nice. The log starts from scratch, blank. Sorry about your cache. You're way ahead of me -- I hate hiding and have done very little of it.

Nah. Caches aren't permanent. Micros certainly aren't. They go missing all the time, leaving opportunities for new -- and hopefully better -- hides. I just had a look at the first page of my finds: twelve of my first twenty finds are archived. It's the circle of liiiiiiiiiife...

Heh. There are a few out there. I don't much like acting stupid in a churchyard, but that's a popular series here.

What they don't seem to have on staff, sadly, is someone to man that email address and answer questions. I tried to get some clarification on word marks (if I could use "TB" or "bug" on a product, for example). No response. I'm finding companies in general very bad about answering logo and trademark questions, even when they give an address specifically for those questions. The Royal Mint, for example, is very explicit about protecting the copyright on coin designs since decimalization, but never answered my query about using pre-decimal coin designs on commercial products. I guess they figure a non-response will scare away the faint of heart, a cease-and-desist will scare away the firm of heart and a lawsuit will scare the rest. Me, I'm firmly in the "faint of heart" category.

I love the numbers and, paradoxically, I'll never be a high-number cacher. I'll do a numbers run with friends, but left to myself, I go out for one or two smilies and a great day hiking or seeing something interesting. I can still go back through my logs and remember pretty much every cache on the list. So low numbers, but every single smiley is significant.

Angst is the meal he's looking for, KnowsChad. Workarounds, not so much.

No, dude -- that's a great idea! If cache owners in the area let it be known they'll accept initials on the card (Sharpies will write on laminate, no problem) or a photo of his sig card the same as a signature in the log, the game can roll on without even a pause. See, a cache maggot probably doesn't realize that for most of us most of the time, signing the book and taking our smiley is all we want. And it would probably ruin HIS fun if he couldn't leave that nifty calling card.

Garmin customer support is famously good. We called them up with a problem and they immediately talked us through the solution thoroughly (little yellow locked up and had to be 'rebooted'). And they're known for sometimes replacing ratty old units sent in for repairs with shiny new ones. I've had three Garmin handhelds, and I've loved them all. Yes, dammit, including the Colorado.

Well, I never. Flames a noob, skips the whole thread about it and then calls US whiners. I've been called worse by better people.

Brockton. It was Brockton, Mass. Okay, now I'm totally done off-topicking this thread.

Did more than a few in Woonsocket, so I don't think that was it. Used to go to Wes' in the original location, when Wes was still there. He had an old blind dog that slept in the kitchen doorway and wagged its tail if you talked to it. My, that was some fine barbecue. He was open, like, midnight to three. Oh, now, no fair...it's 1:30 in the a.m. here and I'm jonesing for Providence. Topic? Oh. Right. Sorry.

Why not? I lived in Pawtucket for years. It wasn't Olneyville, though. I'm trying to remember what rundown ex-textiles town seemed to be entirely populated by unkempt men pushing shopping carts and talking to the sky. Nerves would remember, her being a neuro nurse and all.

a) he didn't actually say that and if I reach a squillion finds, and I'll still hate a snarky reply as much as the first time. We of the geocaching community are often not so strong in the social skills department. It is all part of having the magical, mystical geek gene, I suspect. It doesn't take many episodes of logging, "hey, that wasn't a great place for a cache, what with all the junkies and schizophrenics pushing shopping carts" and having the CO go bzzzzt like a watchspring before I learned to be very, very circumspect in my logs. TFTC is about the most critical thing I post anymore.

As a completely useless point of information, though, a 35mm film canister is the perfect size to hold British £2 coins. One canister will hold £34 worth which, at current exchange rate is...$49.4785.

Nothing is decided -- arguing the minutiae is what the forums are for. But, judging from reading other people's logs as well as my own, most cachers I've encountered arrive at this place. If it needs simple maintenance, it'll go in a regular Found It log. If it actually needs archiving (i.e. people have been logging problems with it for a while with no response), people will escalate to Needs Maintenance logs. A Needs Archiving seems to get posted only when everyone is exasperated with the CO. The spirit of the law seems to be one step below the letter of the law. Perhaps it's different where you are.

You're right to log a NM, but I have to admit -- I usually don't, for the reason you've just discovered. People can be awfully thin-skinned about their caches. I'll note in a regular 'found it' that the log is soaked (and I carry a felt-tip pen that will write on the soggiest paper!).

I used to turn up at the Salvation Army depot every Thursday morning when they dropped the books (me, and all the used booksellers in town). Couldn't you just throw them in boxes and have the SA pick them up?

That's the nicest thing anyone's ever said to me. By some strange coincidence, that is exactly what I want to be when I grow up.

Hide a few for me, please. I suck at hiding.

I love caching in the rain. Makes me feel all x-treme and stuff. Instead of, you know, fifty and unfit.

Actually, you can find an archived cache, if it's still there. For a while, I focused on trashing out archived caches I suspected had been abandoned in the woods (a hobby cut short when the last owner chewed me out for "stealing" a cache that had been mellowing in the woods for some weeks on forbidden property). Just to get technical. Welcome to geocaching, hooty!

Don't be dissing pure chance! If it weren't for pure chance, you could cut my finds in half.

Heh. I used to be fairly high in the state rankings with a low find count, on account of I lived in Rhode Island. If you really want to climb the rankings, move to Rhody. Or Belgium, maybe.

I almost never trade for swag, but still...a trashy box full of junk is a bit if a downer. And a box full of interesting swag is an upper.

Heh. No. You know, I loved living in Rhode Island: I could be a complete low-numbers lamer and still make the leader board. As for the church micro series -- it's one thing to act goofy in a Wal*Mart parking lot. It's quite another to do it in the garden of a 12th Century village chapel.