HMP No Ka Oi

Well THANKS. I gotta find a good lamp skirt hide for #2K. CNJ, I had thought for sure I was going to run in to you guys again while caching in your neck of the woods. Congrats on 1K! Woo Hoo!

Wanted to send a shout out to FunnyNose! I noticed he has been replacing logsheets and containers lately for other people's caches. How cool is that? It is nice to know some of our fellow cachers are looking out for the rest of us. Thanks!

1. Why do people take this game that seriously? 2. Why do people think they "own" a cache page? 3. Let's close this thread and go caching.

I have many thoughts. The ironically named cacher has informed some, that the perpetrator of all the harassment he has received including nasty and threatening emails as well as a broken car window, was indeed caught, and booked yesterday and today was denied bail. The ironically named cacher first blamed some members of a "clique" of Seattle area cachers (we know who). The person booked was not a TUS, nor was he known by any of the TUS, nor has any member of the TUS ever talked to this person ever. He is just some nut job. Ironically named cacher has not yet apologized for, or changed any logs that implicate, blame or otherwise point fingers at the TUS, even though he knows now that it wasn't any of them. I and the other TUS empathize with the ironically named cacher. We would not wish this type of intimidation and fear on anyone. Hopefully the guy who did this should very soon be snuggling up to a hairy guy named Bubba after the inmates Prom. He is a criminal and should be punished. Now, about the TUS, we have been accused of a lot of things and have for the most part been very quiet about these accusations. Instead we have communicated to those who seem to have problems with us in private emails. Those who actually know us, like us. It seems those who have the most problem with us are people most of us have never even met. It is always easy to hate those you have never met, and mock that with which you don't understand. I know quite a few cachers that are not "TUS" and I like every one of them, some more than others, but for cryin' out loud that is to be expected. You at home reading this don't like everyone you meet, no one expects you too. Next time you hear someone say they hate the TUS, ask them to name all of them by first name. If they can't, if YOU can't, maybe the opinion ought best be re-evaluated. Most of us will be at the CITO event in Kent next Saturday, come up and introduce yourself. We ARE competitive and will bust chops occasionally. Some have interpreted this a being mean and ugly. It isn't. We are always happy to see and we encourage new cachers to start to compete with us. Hell, that is how most of us became members. The TUS are an inclusive group, not exclusive. If you want to compete go for it! If you don't, no biggie. As far as "quality of hides" goes. It is always nice to have a few easy caches to nab, especially for the new folks just starting out. Sometimes I just want to go out and grab a few quickies because I don't have a lot of time to dedicate to one cache find. Other times I have been known to spend days working on a puzzle or even out looking for what I know is there but it is just well hidden. It takes all kinds of caches out there to make this game fun. Is it about the numbers? dadgum right it's about the numbers! It is about the numbers for all of us. Why do we bother to congratulate each other in the Milestone area of the forums? If it wasn't about the numbers you wouldn't bother logging any of your finds. I only know of one cacher who it truly ISN'T about the numbers. That said, it isn't ALL about the numbers, I enjoy all kinds of hides but prefer urban caches to climbing mountains. No judgment, just my preference. I also prefer bleu cheese to ranch. I have placed a number of caches that were meant to be quick and easy and were put out only to entertain myself and a few others, but oddly enough have been told by many that they had fun with them too. I believe that you have to do this hobby with a sense of humor, if you don't, you will go mad. It really is a geeks game and if you can't laugh about that, there is no hope for you, really. In history, when a group of people collectively loses its sense of humor, bad things happen. Don't forget to cache with a sense of humor. As for "jumping the shark", the answer, to me, is no. I can say that there will always be those who loose interest after a time and leave the hobby. People who have done it a long time will just get bored with it all and decide to quit. Meanwhile, a new person will get their IRS refund and buy a GPSr and get started. It flows and ebbs. There will always be a ‘heyday’ and that time is now, and it was a year ago, and it was 2 years ago and it will be next year. In other words, it is fun to you when it is fun to you and it isn’t when it isn’t. The hobby has been around longer than me and will continue on after I’m done. It doesn’t need me. It only needs 2 people, one to hide, the other to find. That’s all. I'm done. Thanks.

Thanks Y'all! We always try to skate by quietly and you guys are so observant! Congrats to all of you too, including our great pals schulesjoe... we made it on the same day!

Way to go Team Maccabee! Pandora is right, you never forget #100. Congrats!

Thanks FN, our dog Lucy needs a new dog house. This should work.

Thank you for the kind words everyone. We celebrated by eating a lot of ice cream.

Congratulations OBE!!! BHM was bummed he got coffee before heading out to get that cache this morning. Then he read your log and saw it was your 1000th and was really glad he hadn't beat you to the FTF! Way to go! Don't think we'll be so easy on you for the next one!

WOO HOO to schulesjoe(s) and to Prying Pandora! Way to go Funnynose on your FTF over seas!

Good on ya friend! Yea fauxSteve!

Congrats to Prying Pandora for hitting 1800 today! Thanks for honoring us with using Serendipity for the milestone!

Woo Hoo to markta and Grossi on milestones! Way to go!

Congrats to the new bell-dinger Markta (the insomniac)! Way to go bruddah!

Just added our "will attend" to the event cache. Sounds like fun! We will bring the actual bills from the $65 in FTF winnings from Cold Hard Cache in Maui. It will all be put on the tab, so depending on the turnout, it could go far, or not so far. It will be cool to see you all then!

We will be in town and would love to attend if included in the invite. We are hoping to find that Cold Hard Cache in a couple of days, so we will bring the winnings to buy a round! Aloha!

Yeah fauxSteve! 100 puzzle cache finds! You rule for sure. Congrats!

Congrats monkiemonk! See you at the party!

First, I don't care if someone didn't solve my puzzle and signed the log OR if they went to some other web site to get a clue, hint or solution to my puzzle cache. I have far too many important things to worry about than goofy stuff like this. If someone wanted the coords for my puzzle caches they can email me and I will give it to them. As for deleting logs: You would have to write something OUTRAGEOUS for me to delete your log i.e. give away the actual coords ruining the puzzle for those who wish to solve it with out help. In my area there have been cache owners who have deleted logs that were simply unflattering about the puzzle or have said things like the "cache was 50' away from GZ". This is NOT a give away, you still have to solve the puzzle.

Just noticed our new pals schulesjoe reached 300 tonight! And with an FTF on A Picture Puzzle to boot! Congrats!

Congrats to Jcar and Grossi and what an honor that they used our cache for the occasion!

BHMP is headed off to Maui SOON! Please contact them if you have TB's or even Coins that you want to move to the warm sunny regions of the globe. We will take as many as we can and promise not to bring any of them home. No fauxSteve, we will not be able to take Chain Chomp with us.

I want it, I want it, I WANT IT!! Good job OBE! Does this mean he is the only one safe at Tribal Council? Though I have not seen it in person, I hope to soon!

A Hearty Congratulations to runhills on his milestone find on my Dad's cache yesterday! Good Luck on the Coin Quest. Also, Dayspring celebrated Thanksgiving completing Nellie Does Greenlake and in doing so arriving at 200 finds. Congratulations!!! Happy Thanksgiving everyone! BHMP

We would love to join you all but instead we will be sleeping in a little. HMP says "No WAY am I getting up on Saturay to an alarm clock!"