AnalogDog

thanks for the recommendations on a few caches, I like the sounds of Seth!'s especially Seth!'s Clues, which sounds like Pizza Guy would like as he was Blue's Clues hooked for awhile. But the others, too. Thanks all. Yes, I am back, but trying to tone it down as it got to be too much for my wife to deal with. And I can appreciate that, especially after getting lost after dark in Lords Hill. And yes, it is possible to get lost after dark with a GPS. They still don't show topo or blackberry patches. I actually missed you all and all the sillyness of caching together.

I am trying to hook my 4 year old gonzo son on GCing with Dad. But he gets bored on hard finds, and refuses to go find caches on the bushes, too. Any thoughts on caches that would be entertaining for kids? Or maybe its just the approach that I need to tune. Rob

While I like the wap interface for its clean and orderly nature, it seems pretty tough to navigate to get some seminal information. Now, I GC with my Blackberry 8900, which can handle the main site just fine, but I would move over to the wap site for the upload speed and not having to zoom the in to read it, if I could actually download GPX or LOC indicators for Cacheberry. I also have to note, that not being able to send them OTA to blackberries is a major crime, too. Heck there are many more caching capable phones than G phones and I phones.

Ok, kids, I still have some caches left that need to move on to others, along with a whole passel of TBs. Both my North and South Lynnwood Multis and my stupid little cache, Nice View, Huh? need someone to care for them. I will pull Nice View tomorrow, if I don't hear back about it. I would really hate to pull the multis, as there have been many positive comments about both of them. Now, as for the travelling TBs, I have my #1, 2 and 3 USA Geocoins up for new owners, along with Alien-Ab-Duction, Dust Puppy (see www.userfriendly.org), Hissy (a small beenie baby python), Modern Man Bhudda, Mr. Incredible, Wiggly (a beenie squid) and Spinner, the friendly spider (a BB spider). Then there are the geocoins: nah, I'm not going to give those up yet. Maybe one day I will return....

I miss you all too! It was a blast to go caching with you all, but its back to my previous life, plus 1 really active little boy! And you all, grab my caches and TBs: just send a note to me, no reason to bug Team Misguided. Rob

All of my caches are up for adoption. If I have done something wrong in directly stating this in the forum, flog me, but you have to find me, and all of them, first. Contact me, or Team Misguided if you want them. You guys know the rules more than I. Stupid me. I thought this was within the Cache Adoption thread. On a similar note, if you can consider yourself a friend of mine, you can send me an email about my travel bugs that are travelling. I am giving away all of them, too. If you want any of my geocoins that are in my collection, well, they may be tougher to get, but all are up on the block. For all the info on these, see my page. Basically, I have no time in my life for GCing anymore. JCAR was right. AD

Congrats to all on their recent milestones! Way to go you all!!!

Congrats to NevCowPok, Nolenator, and the Barnabirdy's on there recent goals! Let it be known that I am after you, Nole, and NCP don't be trying to pass me now! Best of all to the Birdys and their lofty numbers.

Last weekend was it for awhile for me. I hope you all will keep the flag high, and the fire burning bright! I will gladly attend gatherings on occassional weekends, but I need to give some time to my family, our home, other recreations and probably a bit of solo caching....

And congrats for 900 to my favorite caching friends!

Its looking a little lean this weekend, I understand. But I will still be at BOOM II at 8am, and if no one joins me, I will still be working the U-District caches.

This weekend, I promised I would bring the Weekend Warriors to the University District, so we could cache without the normal piles of muggles, jammed parking and so on. I sure hope that will be true. I remember many T-Day weekends when that was true, but I have been living out of the area for about 6 years now, and we will see if that will be our fate. This weekend, I am going to push for those who show up to grab the traditionals and the multis in the area, not for the mystery caches that this area has so many of. The reason is that I am saving those for a bit in the future, and I think we need an easy weekend of good cache numbers. I say that we all meet in the parking lot of the Museum of History and Industry for Boom II - Across the Water and the nearby Pandora's Boxes, Part II. Then we can head into the Udistrict and see what we can grab.

I would personally suggest these 2 single caches which are on my favorites list: Tori's Treasures GeoDowns and GeoUps These 3 are parks which have groups of caches along Puget Sound, which I would think would provide more entertainment for a newbie to be taken on than merely the occasional suburban cache. We Tide One On and all the others in the park. Richmond Beach Pot O' Gold and all others in the park. Boeing Creek and all the others in the park.

I'm not sure exactly why it happened, but I missed grabbing several caches on Saturday. It was really quite bizzare, as I had some caches but not others on my PDA and GPS. I am thinking it was my pocket query, as two queries that make up the Seattle area intersect in the I-90 area. And I was tuning them a little while ago, and I think I overtuned. So I loosened up the queries, and I hope those few will show up next time I am in the area.

Way to go!!! Thank you all! Its been a fun ride. Congrats to Allanon for his 600 recently too!

Well, what they do is send up sattelites that have a "thematic mapper" on board, that takes images in very discrete bands of light. Using these images allows one to differentiate pavement, trees, rooftops, water, snow, all sorts of ground cover including turf grass. All they did was take exactly the spectral signature of turf grass, and process all the thematic mapper images that they needed to cover the US, then have it print in grass green to a image, and send it to a webserver. Using multispectural images is now old school stuff, its been going on since the 60's or 70's and now modern goverments are doing the queries on land use patterns. Its actually really fun stuff. Check out this page http://edc.usgs.gov/products/satellite.html, its shows all sorts of imagery that can be bought from satellites, and the thematic mapper is only one, the one I knew of off hand. Rob

Ok, andrew, I did my part, Grabbed my 599th today at Kasch Park Cache, up by Paine Field. So, it #600 on Saturday, and I hope you have been studying math really hard, so you don't have to watch this guy cry.

Just a quick note, I am priming to start Saturday with 599 caches, so this little terror can be #600.... And if we don't get it, I am going to have a tantrum.....

This week, we tip the hat to AndrewRJ who is jonesing to take on Weightman's challenge at Frink's Folly, and I am silly enough to come along to get our first DNF, and end our streak of dominance. For those of you that are unfamiliar with this cache, it is along the west side of Lake Washington where many other caches can be found, with less of the micro sillyness that effects most of Seattle. Ammo boxes in the city. Think of that. A few micros, too. But join us, 8am at the Starbuck's at 121 Lakeside Ave. Its down on Lake Washington in the Leschi Neighborhood. Frink's Folly does not seem to have an obvious parking location, so I am choosing here as its quite close to the cache. Rob

I recently found a single serving package of K-Y liquid in a cache. made me go humm....

No apologies. Just keep in touch.

glad to take you out caching. Yep, bring rain wear, and cold wear. Late December can get to 25F, but is more commonly like 40F, 50F during the day if you are lucky. And the sun barely exists.

Argh. Another thing RWW does not believe in. Silly silly RWW. Yet he probably listens to George Noory and Art Bell every night. Do Right Wingers believe in anything? Or do they just believe nothing at all?

The site is being up and down for me the last half hour. Sometimes it is working right, other times not at all. Heck, I could not even click a link to get here. I had to http://forums.Groundspeak.com to get here. Rob

So you say it is Frink's Park, ARJ? Yep, it sounds like the gauntlet has been tossed, first by WM, then most importantly by the Warrior ARJ, who really likes a challenge.