Ron Streeter

...that's roaringly funny ! I've got one so small I can't find it to place it ! Ron I've never been lost. Fearsome confused sometimes, but never lost.

...if you checked the I will provide HTML box, then you have to put in to separate the paragraphs. A will push a line down one line, but it won't put in a paragraph break (one blank line). I see Pat has carried the picture lesson I gave him one step forward and the resized and centered pics look good ! Ron I've never been lost. Fearsome confused sometimes, but never lost.

...deleting duplicate post. But while I'm here...Fizzy...I got your email and see you post here. I'll take a look at it soon. Sounds good ! Ron I've never been lost. Fearsome confused sometimes, but never lost.

...got your 2 pm phone call about 7 when Marilyn and I got back from an afternoon in the foothills. I actually don't have the answers (specifically) to your Stockton locations question. I could drive to two of them I think, but I couldn't tell you more than that. I'll look for your today's finds ! Ron I've never been lost. Fearsome confused sometimes, but never lost.

LO... I don't care which date the gathering is, but PLEASE make it on a weekend night...I've missed the last three I think because they were on Thursday nights when I teach. I'm anxious to get back in touch with the old and new cachers. Bill... I am only a user of the great programs being developed by the geocaching/programming types so my contribution is limited to thanking them ! I see the travel bug waypoint has gotten another visit. My experience with a single traveling bug hasn't been all that satisfactory. I think over time they've lost some of their charm. I will still pick one up when I see it, but I wouldn't drive out of my way to grab one. I try to put them out in reasonable time too. One that I had an attachment too went to Florida with a young lass and hasn't been heard of since ! Ron I've never been lost. Fearsome confused sometimes, but never lost.

....and bay area cachers. Fizzy posted in the CVC forum that he is working on a Mobipocket replacement and I posted the following in response...duplicating it here for him and bay area cachers to see. Also...how many of you bay area cachers use a Palm device when caching? **************** I got the Lil Devil Spinner working and really like its results. I also am pleased with the Cache Watcher by Clayjar.... Now Fizzy has one in the works. The features sound great...the downside of needing Perl on one's computer doesn't sound to inviting though...maybe Fizzy will find a work-around that. Fizzy...here's a more general question for you. Does geocaching's use of GPX insure that your and the other new programs will ALWAYS be available to us, or will these too fade away in the next 6 months to a year? I know that Lil Devil has already seen big demands on his server from people tapping his Spinner. That seems to be the good thing about the Clayjar Cache Watcher as it runs completly on one's home computer...on the other hand (as far as I know) it doesn't convert to Palm held files...maybe he is working on that. Thanks to all three of you (and any others) who bring this aspect of caching into our hands while out in the field. Ron I've never been lost. Fearsome confused sometimes, but never lost.

....hey I just got tipped to this forum by LuvOzzy and see that the Society is going in new directions...i.e. nudism when going for water caches. Please be advised that I will be a willing participant in such events. Of course as the moderator of all that is done in *good clean fun* I will be required to be clothed. Another reason I need to wear clothes is that the 20 x 100 binoculars I will be using would chafe me if I wasn't wearing a shirt. ********* Don't the Pizza places have a dress code? Sorry I can't be there but my significant other is making a *welcome home* dinner after my Christmas and after Christmas influenza attack, so will be going to that dinner instead. I look forward to a picnic outing with all the Society in dry spring sometime. Ron I've never been lost. Fearsome confused sometimes, but never lost.

....Wow ! I got the Spinner working and really like its results. I also am pleased with the Cache Watcher by Clayjar.... Now Fizzy has one in the works. The features sound great...the downside of needing Perl on one's computer doesn't sound to inviting though...maybe Fizzy will find a work-around that. Fizzy...here's a more general question for you. Does geocaching's use of GPX insure that your and the other new programs will ALWAYS be available to us, or will these too fade away in the next 6 months to a year? I know that Lil Devil has already seen big demands on his server from people tapping his Spinner. That seems to be the good thing about the Clayjar Cache Watcher as it runs completly on one's home computer...on the other hand (as far as I know) it doesn't convert to Palm held files...maybe he is working on that. Thanks to all three of you (and any others) who bring this aspect of caching into our hands while out in the field. Ron I've never been lost. Fearsome confused sometimes, but never lost.

....for your contribution to Geocaching. I enjoyed using Brian's Palmable program at Pathetique until it got nixed by geocaching.com. I'm assuming the gpx capability being offered by Jeremy will ensure longer life for your application. It is working well, with the Plucker I installed though I made that installation harder than it had to be when working on Plucker's home page. Personally I found the Avantgo easy to load URLs to, but I blew it off my Visor Prism and have not been able to download it again for some reason to my computer, so I am glad Plucker is working. Anyway, it has given me renewed reason to take the Prism along on cache hunts again and the linked hint and last few logs are a bonus! Thanks again Lil Devil....hope you continue to enjoy lookin for my caches! Ron I've never been lost. Fearsome confused sometimes, but never lost.

....and Cache Watcher ! Well, the Spinner server seems to be down at 4 pm today, but I grabbed Clayjar's Cache Watcher...which runs on your pc....and it works great. If you run with a laptop on your caching travels, you have an easy access to a list of the caches you specified in a pocket query, and when you click on a cache name it gives you the full description and the logs...can't beat that. From what I hear, the Spinner is every bit as good as Brian's old Palmable at Pathetique. Apparently the thing that makes this all workable is that now you can download pocket queries with gpx capability. Neat...glad these programmer types are willing to go the extra mile for the rest of us. Thanks lil devil and Clayjar! Ron I've never been lost. Fearsome confused sometimes, but never lost.

....lildevil's spinner page at 4 pm pacific on January 8. Is the server on overload? I looked at it briefly the other day and am ready to try it out. I grabbed Clayjar's Cache Watcher when I was at Lildevil's page the other day. It works well..resides on your hard drive and gives a nice treatment of a gpx file. Looking forward to seeing lildevil's work. Ron I've never been lost. Fearsome confused sometimes, but never lost.

.....I haven't checked this out thoroughly yet, but it may have potential as a MobiPocket replacent. MobiPocket Replacement Anything that looks more like the former Palmable work done by Brian would be great ! ******** Also check outthis cache watcher utility developed by Clayjar. (here's the forum link) Cache Watcher utility To get the utility, go toward the bottom of the thread and find one of the last posts with *get it at the usual place* link. When you get there, go toward the bottom and get the latest version. I think it's 1.0.15 or something like that. Ron I've never been lost. Fearsome confused sometimes, but never lost. I've never been lost. Fearsome confused sometimes, but never lost.

.....I haven't checked this out thoroughly yet, but it may have potential. MobiPocket Replacement Anything that looks more like the former Palmable work done by Brian would be great ! ******** Also check outthis cache watcher utility developed by Clayjar. (here's the forum link) Cache Watcher utility To get the utility, go toward the bottom of the thread and find one of the last posts with *get it at the usual place* link. When you get there, go toward the bottom and get the latest version. I think it's 1.0.15 or something like that. Ron I've never been lost. Fearsome confused sometimes, but never lost. [This message was edited by Ron Streeter on January 07, 2003 at 10:35 AM.]

That about covers my time in the week BEFORE Christmas and the week after Christmas. Thank goodness the week in Kansas AT Christmas found me well. I think I have had my share for the end/beginning of a year. Today I ventured out on a cache hunt that ordinarily I would have done a week ago...as it was a bay area cacher beat me too it, and Lodi cachers tried, but I beat them out. Check out.....This one. Has a *somewhat* familiar look to it, but is different too. Thanks to the hider for my 8 a.m. success...just hiking with Marilyn the rest of the day, but there are lots of caches waiting out there. Ron I've never been lost. Fearsome confused sometimes, but never lost. [This message was edited by Ron Streeter on January 05, 2003 at 09:48 AM.]

....glad you enjoyed a sunny day in the Stockton and Manteca area....still plenty of caches for you to find down here. Ron I've never been lost. Fearsome confused sometimes, but never lost.

.....in Kansas. I mentioned on an earlier page that I had placed some micros in Kansas during Christmas. Take a look at this one which was magnetic....beats a newspaper vending machine all to heck. The Plains Cowboy GeoManhattan found all the new caches I placed over Christmas and commented on the micro aspect of 4 of the five. One was magnetic (a tin) the other 3 were film cannisters and the last cache was a decon container. I've never been lost. Fearsome confused sometimes, but never lost.

....I know you found at least one of mine up north, but I don't think you looked for Riverview #2 did you ? Or how about Nothing But...Watches. How about the original Spike and Ivy? Of course I realize those are valley style making their homes in Sac, but.... Ron (cooling my heels and counting up my stock in various aspirin, orange juice and other things I've been spending time with!) I've never been lost. Fearsome confused sometimes, but never lost.

....to the GeoSharks on their 100th find (Fun Guy)....on to the next one! Ron I've never been lost. Fearsome confused sometimes, but never lost.

....and have finished reading a ton of watch list notifications. A sacramento group...11 cachers...came to the Stockton/Lodi area and of course each had to log their finds for my caches and GeoCricket's. I finally just started going to the cache pages and reading the find logs instead of reading all those emails one at a time. In Kansas I found a few and placed a few, including what I think is the first magnetic (at least in the Manhattan area). No, it wasn't in a newspaper vending machine. I'll post it here after I publish it...a nice place for a magnetic. Glad to be back and will have some time this week for some caching though my laptop needs major work too. Hope everyone had a good Christmas...and New Year's is almost here too! Ron I've never been lost. Fearsome confused sometimes, but never lost.

....I sent a warning note to CC Cooper Agency to look over their shoulders ! Ron I've never been lost. Fearsome confused sometimes, but never lost.

....I like them simple. (Tupperware in the woods, after a hike, hopefully see something nice along the way or at the end). Ron I've never been lost. Fearsome confused sometimes, but never lost.

...who sang what, but I do remember when I sat at a booth in a Rexall drug store, flipped through the pages of a booth-side juke box *remote* and played a song for a dime! That went along with a cherry coke made by a soda *jerk*. I've never been lost. Fearsome confused sometimes, but never lost. [This message was edited by Ron Streeter on December 19, 2002 at 05:22 PM.]

...I haven't been caching for a long time (10 days?) so there are a bunch I haven't looked for. ************** Regret I can't make the Christmas to-do...I'll be babysitting my students Thursday from 2:30 to 9 ! Have a good time everybody ! Ron I've never been lost. Fearsome confused sometimes, but never lost.

....Yes, it is kind of funny to want to protect the old paint job on a 4x4, but my 10 year old Explorer looks like new and I want to keep it that way! I have picked up some scrub brush scratches that i've taken out, and I've always thought it would be nice to have an old beat-up 4x4 to take to really rough spots, but can't justify it. The stats on 4 wheel drive use put *most* 4x4 owners using it less than a few percent of the time. Makes sense. You drive hundreds of miles sometimes to get to a 4x4 area and then only drive a few miles in those gears. I use to snow ski and 4x4 was useful for that, but on ice you might as well have skates on your car. Glad the old Modesto Picnic cache is getting some action...it's a good little road for short-wheel based 4x4s. Ron I've never been lost. Fearsome confused sometimes, but never lost.

...will get you anywhere and some places a car can't go.... look at my Patti's Point cache. Ron I've never been lost. Fearsome confused sometimes, but never lost.