Car54
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This snippet is exactly what I think they are going for. For those who say "listen to your paying customers", I think they are. It's just that cachers aren't the customers any more, we're the product. Just an opinion from a 10-year premium member with vision challenges who does not appreciate the high-handedness or the silliness that continues to emanate from GC HQ.
Mrs. Car54
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I suspect the OP was posting "tongue in cheek". Got a GC code?
Mrs. Car54
No, I am serious. I found the survey marker while setting up this cache. No code yet, as it is unpublished.
Oops - my bad. Sorry about that.
Mrs. Car54
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Around our home territory, we use a 2011 Chevy Impala. The "good" news is that we don't really like the vehicle all that much, so we don't feel we have to baby it.
If we're camping, we've got the F250 we use to tow our 5th-wheel. Even though Mr. Car54 rarely visits the forums, I won't mention the F250's mileage because it is so bad it stresses him out.
It's got an off-road package on it, but not off-road tires. We did take it on one cache in a nearby state forest where we forded a creek (after checking the depth first) and did some serious "muddin'", I think it's called. Quite an adventure for desk jockies like us. 
We're thinking of an AWD Subaru once the Impala is paid off.
Mrs. Car54
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I suspect the OP was posting "tongue in cheek". Got a GC code?
Mrs. Car54
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Like a delicious pizza, your feedback has been rejected as we no longer like pizza. Oh, snap!
Mrs. Car54
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I predict that along about post #11 or 12 someone will make a comment about too much publicity being bad for caching. Let's see if I'm right. If I'm wrong, it will only be because this comment influenced subsequent behavior.
I see what you did there.
Mrs. Car54
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I couldn't take it any more so I finally went out yesterday and got my fix. I feel whole again.
The longest I've gone so far is 17 days, when I was on a training exercise in Grafenwoehr, Germany, and not allowed to leave post. One of my goals is never to go that long again.
I'm still at 21 days longest drought, and that was last Spring.
Our longest drought is 123 days and we started in April, 2004. We're probably "doing it wrong" and need to "do it more". (wmpastor - keep that out of the "out of context" thread!
)Mrs. Car54
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For me, no log is better than a cut-and-paste log.
It's the whole "casting pearls before swine" thing.
^^
This
Mrs. Car54
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WHAAAAAZUP!? A new geocache was just published!
Like ohmygod! Fershure! Gnarly! A new geocache was just published!
23 Skiddoo! A new geocache was just published!
I thought Oh Snap was so 90s...
Seriously though, for us old coots:
Howdy Pard! Thar's a new saddlebag o' nostrums, 'Way Out Yonder', 3 hoots and a hollar west of the ol' gallows
Ugh! You get notification rock! It say Og publish new cache 'Sabretooth Travel Bone Hotel', long way to morning bright thing.
or, the ever popular
Message for you, Sir
Oh my gosh - these 2 posts are hilarious!
Mrs. Car54
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Oh snap! A new geocache was just published!
After I opened a New Publication email I received, the above quote is the first thing I see and it makes me curious as to what the average age of a cacher is nowadays. Perhaps it's getting younger and I'm just some out of date old coot, but my belief is that the average user is old enough to remember when "Oh snap!" was common lingo, and it seems to me that 2014 is about 30 years after that phrase's peak. I imagine that someone on The Design Team thinks that this is a fun and cute and cuddly phrase that can be turned into a swag button or trackable to sell in the store, but to me it just seems unprofessional. Is the new target demographic 12 year olds? Who on earth says "Oh snap!" anymore? It was annoying back then and hasn't gotten any less annoying now.
Almost exactly what I thought - we must not be the target demographic any more, but you must not be going for our grandkids either as they quit saying, "Oh snap", years ago.
That phrase makes the e-mails just look silly. Are you planning on regular updates as lingo changes?
Mrs. Car54
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I'm just a great believer in common courtesy and also realistic enough to realise that the average shopkeeper will only sell what people are willing to pay a fair price for - and if the acceptable price is rock-bottom, then the stock on the shelves will end up reflecting that. Hardly aspirational but then, what does it matter huh?
I think that you've broken the analogy. I have no idea what it is that you are trying to say.
I thought he was making a kind of "least common denominator" argument.
Mrs. Car54
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What irks me is - entitlement attitudes, whether related to caching or not.
Mrs. Car54
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Maybe those people should do more crossword puzzles. They're not doing enough of them and probably should find another type of puzzle to solve.
Oh my gosh - too funny!
Mrs. Car54
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For all of the other caches I log "see my log on GCxxxxx for a description of my hike".
A log like that would probably make me consider archiving my cache with the log "see GCxxxx for the reason". If my cache is not notable enough to warrant its own log, I would probably conclude that its not a very good cache. If the finder isn't going to make an effort, why should the hider?
Mrs. Car54
One lazy log would make you consider archiving a cache?
Of course not - we get "lazy" logs from time to time. The log above would most likely indicate that a power trail/number trail/call-it-whatever-you-want trail has sprung up around our cache. If that were the case, then, yes, I would archive our cache. Look on the bright side - someone would then have an opportunity to "fill in the gap" on the trail.
In general, being a cache owner is becoming less and less fun FOR ME - not speaking for others. We don't have very many caches, but the ones we do, we take pleasure in. Once we no longer take pleasure in them, we will archive them.
Mrs. Car54
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For all of the other caches I log "see my log on GCxxxxx for a description of my hike".
A log like that would probably make me consider archiving my cache with the log "see GCxxxx for the reason". If my cache is not notable enough to warrant its own log, I would probably conclude that its not a very good cache. If the finder isn't going to make an effort, why should the hider?
Mrs. Car54
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My dear loving wife Theresa and I began geocaching June 14, 2003.
My dear wife passed away in May 2014 at age 56 and the fact that the account we shared is still alive means more than I can express in words. Those great memories all came back tonight as I thought about those days. A husband’s love never fades.
I am so sorry! Posts like this help remind me to keep things in perspective. I am glad you are finding things in which to take comfort.
Mrs. Car54
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That's funny, but what if the intro app was intended to flood the site with Muggles With Apps, so that more people would buy premium memberships?
Muggles With Apps = MWA
MWA-ha-ha-haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!
Mrs. Car54
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I'm not throwing in the towel just yet but i am one of those who does not enjoy our hobby as much these days. I know how to run pocket queries and don't mind doing some research. Even so, it's definitely getting harder to find caches i think i would enjoy going after these days. The quantity of caches placed simply to up smiley count is just too overwhelming!
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Counts ARE NOT the point I was trying to make.
My improper usage of words has confused you.
10 years and only 1,134 finds? You're not doing it enough!!
I think you misunderstand *MY* point. The quotes above, which admittedly were snipped, showcase a problem, in my opinion. While many folks will say, "Oh, your find count doesn't matter,", it is yet the first, almost knee-jerk response used to imply someone isn't quite up to snuff. I'm probably not wording that well, but if counts are not the point, why make it your first response?
Mrs. Car54
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10 years and only 1,134 finds? You're not doing it enough!!
Or... If you've lost that much interest in the hobby because things have 'changed' - then, its time to find a new hobby.
Really? Judging someone by their number of finds in a certain number of years? We're another 10-year caching couple and we just hit 1,488. Is it time for us to "find a new hobby"? We concentrate on what *WE* like doing and don't really care if someone thinks we're doing it "wrong" or "not enough".
Mrs. Car54
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snip....When it really comes down to it, I think I'm closer to ignoring all caches. It's much easier,.....snip
This is close to what we're doing these days. Used to be that we'd run regular PQ's of our local area and PQ's of areas where we were headed on vacation. Then we'd just hit "find closest" on the ol' Garmin and head off for a fun (to us) day that would usually include a variety of caches, including some micros. Well, these days we could spend all day and end up chasing "soggy film pots" (to quote a PP).
Now we just look at new cache notifications for local hides and very rarely do we go after one of them. As for out-of-town trips, I do an on-line search near the zip code, search by fave points and start looking at individual caches. If I think we'll like it, I bookmark it. I continue until I'm tired of looking at pages. Then I run a PQ just over my bookmark list. After the trip, I log the caches, and delete the bookmark. A lot more work involved than there used to be in order to cache like *WE* like to do and I know we probably miss some good caches that way.
The effect of all this effort is that we do a lot less caching than we used to do and we have longer dry spells. Who knows, eventually we may just fizzle out.
Mrs. Car54
P.S. Note that this is not a geocide, either.
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Basically, you have to alter the cache names, and put the State before the cache name. For example, if their were a cache in Illinois named "I-90 Rest area", you would alter the cache name to be "Illinois - I-90 Rest area". And then of course as an added bonus, the caches would be in alphabetical order by State name.
I didn't know you could do that! Thanks for the tip - I love it!
Mrs. Car54
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We've always appreciated your lists for when we are towing our RV. Other than running a PQ or CAR, is there an easy way to see what state a given cache is in? (I struggle with that on our own bookmark lists, so I always add a line in the bookmark to note the state).
Thanks for your efforts!
Mrs. Car54
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Have fun!
It's got an off-road package on it, but not off-road tires. We did take it on one cache in a nearby state forest where we forded a creek (after checking the depth first) and did some serious "muddin'", I think it's called. Quite an adventure for desk jockies like us. 
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Cool story and very cool pics! I like the way you write - it makes me feel as though I were right there with you.
Mrs. Car54