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    San Diego Cache Events

    in West and Southwest

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    WANTED: SAN DIEGO GEOCACHERS!!

     

    FOX 6 (XETV-TV) San Diego would like to run a live broadcast with local geocachers, talking about geocaching, and actually geocaching next FRIDAY the 13th (my favorite date). We would be on the Fox in the morning show so they anticipate at least 3 live feeds through the duration of the morning show (5:30, 6:30, 7:30, etc.). The only request is, that we are awake (coffee), excited (coffee), and can talk somewhat intelligently about the subject (coffee). So can FATTBOY show up with his wig and donuts? :rolleyes: The reporter, Sherri Palmeri, even suggested we could place a Fox6 News Cache (mock) or release a Fox6 News travelbug on air (ooooh aahhh). I suggested the central area to broadcast could be somewhere near Mission Trails.

     

    So, anyone want to volunteer and become the next morning star? :laughing:

     

    PassingWind

    The San Diego Thread

    in West and Southwest

    Posted · Edited by PassingWind

    WANTED: SAN DIEGO GEOCACHERS!!

     

    FOX 6 (XETV-TV) San Diego would like to run a live broadcast with local geocachers, talking about geocaching, and actually geocaching next FRIDAY the 13th (my favorite date). We would be on the Fox in the morning show so they anticipate at least 3 live feeds through the duration of the morning show (5:30, 6:30, 7:30, etc.). The only request is, that we are awake (coffee), excited (coffee), and can talk somewhat intelligently about the subject (coffee). So can FATTBOY show up with his wig and donuts? :rolleyes: The reporter, Sherri Palmeri, even suggested we could place a Fox6 News Cache (mock) or release a Fox6 News travelbug on air (ooooh aahhh). I suggested the central area to broadcast could be somewhere near Mission Trails.

     

    So, anyone want to volunteer and become the next morning star? :laughing:

     

    PassingWind

    San Diego Geocoin Club (sdgc)

    in West and Southwest

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    CACHE MN is a very SWEET coin, it's well done. I heard that state is awesome, I'll have to visit someday. :cry:

    I can also get you a deal on the King Boreas 1000th Hide geocoin, they are selling for $5 at the MnGCA.

     

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    PW

    Sweet...If they have there own icon I would like 1 do you have a link...I could not find any on there site??

    Thanks Jason for the info.

     

     

    From CENTRIS:

     

    I have to get these King Boreas coins OUT of my house so I am offering an awesome clearance sale just to get them gone (no kidding!).

     

    Silver edition coins from the 400 box = $5.00 each

    Brass edition coins from the 700 - 900 boxes = $5.00 each

    (this is less than my cost -- get them while they last - use them for swag or send them out in the wild)

    Postage will be between $2.00 and $4.05 (priority flat rate)

     

     

    Contact CENTRIS directly, mention my name for a sweet deal :P

     

    PW

    San Diego Geocoin Club (sdgc)

    in West and Southwest

    Posted

    CACHE MN Coin info

     

    There is an un-posted special:

     

    Purchase 5 sets you get one free!

     

     

    CACHE MN is a very SWEET coin, it's well done. I heard that state is awesome, I'll have to visit someday. :D

     

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    I can also get you a deal on the King Boreas 1000th Hide geocoin, they are selling for $5 at the MnGCA.

     

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    PW

    *** This Just In***

    in West and Southwest

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    This just in ... from circa late-fifties.

     

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    Name this infamous but ever-so beautiful Geocacher.

     

    If you are curious about the waffle pattern, not to worry, her mother was actually frightened by a waffle iron.

     

    Kathy - Team Reid :laughing:

     

    PW

    The San Diego Thread

    in West and Southwest

    Posted

    I talked with John&Jess for a while yesterday, and their wedding weekend sounded idyllic.

     

    They had a lovely ceremony, the weather was great, and they had a great suite to stay in.

     

    As the day wore on, and they returned to their room, they had a perfectly romantic evening planned. Ahh, wedded bliss! Everything was going just fine...until they got notification of a new puzzle cache going live. :bad:

    That would actually be a good background story for a puzzle now that I think about it!

     

     

    Hmmmm...Rumor has it their very first FTF as a married couple was a pretty epic one! Stay tuned. :bad:

     

    PW

    The San Diego Thread

    in West and Southwest

    Posted

    Wow, this is strange. PW's recent log on my Is it Smoke Oriflamme? cache shows double smilies. Today's website glitch must have something to do with it. BTW: Read his log, it is pretty amazing that he found this cache.

     

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    I think it is just a creative HTML log, not a glitch.

    -Tony

     

    Your correct bitmap...gotta have some fun with the cache logs right? Just some html fun, 1 find, 2 smilies!

     

    It's funny how Miragee mentioned in her log that she re-hide the cache much better (which she did BTW) so non-geocachers wouldn't stumble upon it. For us cachers, seeing one of those distinct rock piles is like pointing out a zit on an albino's back.

     

    BTW. Great cache Rocketman.....it was "a flame" that day!

     

    PassingWind

    The San Diego Thread

    in West and Southwest

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    New topic. I'm a pretty direct person. This is a warning that I may say what I really think about your cache when I log it, when most people might say "TNLNSL" or "Found it" or "clearing out my radius". As I wrote in a micro today that I didn't find: "Didn't find it and won't be back. What a miserable place for a cache!" (it was supposedly in a dead tree next to a fence next to two busy roads next to a dirt parking lot).

     

    Now I don't hate all urban micros, and I admit it is nice making a clear space around my house and seeing my numbers rise, so I will continue to do urban micros. I understand some people really like those. And I know I can't do anything about their proliferation, but I just want to vote for "please pick good locations!" and I figure the best way to cast my vote is with my log. If I knew in advance which ones would suck maybe I wouldn't seek them out, but I don't always have the time to do that much research in advance. I'll go to the next one on my GPSr and occasionally I find a neat place to visit or a clever hide. But then I find the next few tucked into a lamp skirts. Even those aren't that bad, sometimes. Especially if they were more rare.

     

    Maybe some people don't care that some of their cache locations suck. Maybe some people know it, but don't care if people think they do. But maybe there are a few people who don't realize, or who might take a bit more effort if people wrote something other than "Thanks!" in their logs. So, at least some of the time, I'm just going to be honest and log them as I see them. Feel free to do the same for mine. It's nothing personal, and I may have loved (or will love)(or at least not dislike) your other cache locations.

     

     

    DPM - Including the letters "DPM" in a cache log was a once-secret way to indicate the cache was of low quality. DPM is an abbreviation for "des palourdes mortes", which is French for "the dead clams". The entire French phrase is "Les longs sanglots des palourdes mortes blessent mon coeur avec un languor monotone pendant qu'ils dansent à minuit", which translates to "The long sobs of the dead clams wound my heart with a monotonous languor as they dance at midnight". The idea was to include this phrase in a cache log to clue in others that the cache was of low quality. Rarely actually used, as the meaning of DPM quickly spread throughout the geocaching community, and its secrecy was lost.

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