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yeah? I thought maybe the wandering north might be related to the fact that the earth is expanding.....or maybe that's just a crazy theory from some crazee tasmanian.... : http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lau...98/HomePage.htm http://www.geologynet.com/tectonics1.htm

I think Snoogans might have you beat in the pimp factor...then again we might be talking about two totally different types of girls..... <post deleted for yuckiness>

Yeah, ain't THAT the truth! A few years ago, after a string of lousy/psycho dates, I modified my personal ad (yes, the HORROR of it all!) to say that I didn't want dates with men who were active alcoholics/addicts, CHRONICALLY unemployed (not as in downsized, but as in UNABLE to hold a job), living with (or looking for a replacement for) "mommy," or closet homosexuals ("not that there's anything wrong with that..." - but I don't want to date you). I received many responses, some of them quite angry, asking me just who I thought I was to be so picky!!! Heaven forbid I wanted someone sober, employed (or employable), not a mamma's boy, and straight! The nerve!! Oh God, do NOT tell me any more stories like that.......it took my family and friends YEARS of coaching and prodding me to FINALLY "take the leap" and actually post my profile on match.com.....if you tell me any more dating horror stories, I will run away, hide under my bed (or more likely, hide in my work....), lock my chastity belt, and never be seen again......

well, you know, smell (or stink) is all relative...I would MUCH prefer the BO of a good clean thruhike, compared to the stench in my clothes (hair, etc) from being in a smokey bar for one night.....peeeeeyew - now that's a stink that can gag a skunk...! (and p.s. if Paul can't handle the smell of a "real" woman, then he's probably gay anyway....NOT that there's anything wrong with that.....maybe someday Paul will also find his prince, and we'll ALL live happily ever after.....)

oh, now, you guys leave her be...the gal's just lookin for love in all the right places.... seriously, tho, DiemCarper, the guys in this forum are much more tuned in to gadgets and gizmos, and are more likely to recognize the elusive Paul's GPS than anything.....so, if you can describe for them what Paul's little thingie looked like, they may actually be able to help you track him down.....

can't you delete the cookies, and then re-enter the website, sans cookies, to enter a different zip for a new search? btw -- speaking of punks with cookies, the travel discounter website (Expedia, Travelocity,etc) also play a game with the cookies...only their game is to set a cookie when you shop for an airfare, then when you come back to their website later and try to pull up the same airfare, it's now $20 higher than your last visit! The only way to get the original airfare price quote you found earlier, is to delete the cookies from your PC, and then go back to their website cookie-free, and voila! The lower original airfare quote now magically reappears! free enterprise.....gotta luv it, eh? (or at least keep a sense of humor about it.....and one hand on your wallet.....)

yeah, I think the main thing is finding out WHY she has "issues" about you caching without her, and then determing whether her issues are valid ones and if so, whether you can discuss/resolve it together. If she feels there are a limited number of caches in your area, and that if you seek out caches on your own that you might be less inclined to then go with her to those same caches that she hasn't yet found, then that's a legitimate concern -- she likes you, and if you're both busy people (or she is, apparently) then she wants to "optimize" the limited time she has to share with you, and wants to spend that shared time doing something she knows you enjoy doing with her. If that's the case, then she sounds like a keeper, to me. BUT (and I DO have a big but....) If you encourage her to talk freely about her needs, wants, etc., and through those open uncensored chats, she reveals herself to you as a control-freak who wants to dictate or monitor your every minute (in or out of her presence), then be thankful that you found that out early enough before you invested too much time, energy, etc in a relationship that probably wouldn't be satisfying to you, for the long haul..... Or, your situation might fall somewhere in between the two heaven-and-hell extremes described above........ TALK to her.......LISTEN to her......the truth always has a way of revealing itself.....

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hey, COAdmin, I hardly got to know ya.....but how about one good spanking for old time's sake: what do you think of my new Avatar caption.....?

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I like the new look - it's very cool, very hip, very happenin'......

this thread brings up a good point: I travel, and prior to 9/11 would carry my pepper spray with me in my carry-on, so I would have it handy when I landed and headed into "unknown territory". Now, post 9/11, I have to pack my pepper spray into my checked bags, and dig it out when I get where I'm going. But, yeah, relative to the entire above thread about weapons-of-choice: definitely keep pepper spray handy everywhere and anywhere (heck, I even keep one in my bedside table.....). On a related note: I've been half-heartedly searching for a collapsible heavy-duty walking stick, that I can pack into a suitcase and take with me when I travel. I've seen the fold-away canes, but I'm looking for something taller and less "cane-like". Anybody seen anything like this? If not, someone needs to invent this! (and can you do it before my next trip, in March...?)

I don't think so, for a number of reasons: (1) Non-paying (read: poor) members like me don't have access to the off-topic forums, so we would be excluded from either reading or posting to this thread (and how unAmerican is that?). (2) Vets are cool, and any chance the rest of us have to tell them so, front and center, we should do so (and if anyone reading this thread is in Infantry in Iraq and knows "little Chris" from Davenport,Iowa please pass on hugs from Solomon's mom....) (3) As you can see from the thread, there is a common thread between military service, and interest in GPS, strategy games, search&rescue, etc. Knowing who your fellow members or gamers are, makes the game just that much more enjoyable. (p.s. no, I'm not a Vet, but I firmly believe that every young American should serve some sort of conscripted service to their country for a few years after high school, even if it's just in "domestic service corps" like VISTA volunteers......nothing like a few dedicated years of selfless sacrifice and service to smack the self-centered smart right outta ya and help you get your priorities straight....)

shoot, I thought this thread was about hating to read the manual, to which I was gonna add, hey, me too! but really this thread is about hating the people who hate to read the manuals? hey - I resemble that remark!

The longer I cache, the more interested I am in long hikes, unusual parks, learning a bit of history or geology, seeing wildlife, learning new skills. I had a long hike in a Audubon preserve recently that had mysterious stone cairns, remains of an old negro sawmill (hey, that's what the topo map called it!), old stone quarries, the foundations of an 18th Century farm...and, of course (being an Audubon preserve) tons of deer and birds. When I got to the cache site, it was a big heap of stones chest-deep in snow, and I turned around and walked back to the car without more than a cursory search for the cache. I was perfectly happy. I'll go back and get my smiley in the Spring. I love caching, including the box of junk and the log book, but if somebody invented a game that led you all over a great park like that, with coords for the coolest bits, and no cache at the end...I think I'd play. You could call it...Go Look At This Really Cool Thing. I guess what I'm saying is, the genie's out of the bottle on that one. They can forbid the ammo box or make stricter rules about going off-trail, but they can't stop people using the language of GPS to send each other on neat adventures. Exactly - excellent words of wisdom from AW. I'm a firm believer in the words of wisdom passed down through the ages (and no, AW, that was not a side-flame about your "crone-age"...), that can offer guidance about how to most appropriately and effectively handle every situation that arises in your path: "Timing is Everything" and "You can catch more flies with honey" -- If GCing is getting some bad press right now, then the right response may not be to pick up a bigger stick to whack back with (i.e. verbally beating up on the Park Rangers who are largely underpaid, overworked, and underappreciated anyway -- that's an unfriendly and somewhat self-centered response; Boycotts - nah, you probably don't possess enough "market power" to make a big enough impact anyway; Lobbyists and Class Action Lawsuits - nah, that's way overkill and a misuse of your resources (and the taxpayers resources), at this point in time probably). Probably the best, most effective strategy at this point, might be to consider creating some "positive press" about GCing -- those of you in Portland who work with Scout troops for instance (or underpriveleged inner-city youth, etc), get some press coverage about GCing as an educational tool, that teaches kids self-reliance (and survival skills), teamwork, problem-solving, etc. People LOVE that stuff! Or, focus on the value of the "virtual caches" to get people outside, visiting the sites (and just downplay the whole "cache as organized littering" spin for awhile). There is definitely a "silver lining" to be found in this current "dark cloud" of recent bad press - you just gotta find it.....think of it as a game....like GCing....

Temporarily disoriented....yeah, I been there....usually near closing time.....hey, ever notice, near closing time, that "Hey, Brew Pub, you in?", sounds an awful lot like "Hey, Group Hug, you in?".......(yeah, the marines I was with didn't hear it that way either......)

yeah, I agree, mean people suck (as the kids would say.....)

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