Jenkins' Ear

Clyde: I am unable to respond to your regsitration e-mail. Your mail server keeps bouncing all attempts to mail to [edited out], and I'm unable to decipher the header info to figure out why. It says: [yada-yada... explcit addresses edited out to thwart span-mongers] Nifty s/w, BTW...

Thanks. I sure am glad I didn't say that I had "looked everywhere", because I certainly never thought of looking there. Seems like it should be on the Advanced Search screen, wouldn't you think?

Well, in a strict, precise sense, TNLNSL is not an acronym, either, since it doesn't spell a word - it's really an example of an initialism. Radar and snafu are acronyms - FBI is an initialism.

Well, I know my face will red (with embarassment) after I get some responses to this, but how in the heck do you naviagte to the Pocket Query generation screen from the geocaching.com site? I found the correct URL by Googling, but I just don't see how to get there via the geocaching.com menus etc.

I have successfully downloaded some waypoint info to my GPS, but I'm wondering how to get the complete set of detailed cache info downloaded in a presentable format - does such a facility exist? I did see mention of the MobiPocket reader, but it looks like it pertains to PDAs only. I just want to get all the info down to a PC (I'm supposing I won't have net access where I'm going) without doing it page by page. Is such a thing possible? And supported?

So "picking up" would mean that I found it (where the system thought it was), and I physically got it and logged it as such. Anybody who wanted to know where that partciular TB was would know that I, personally, had it in my grubby little hands, and that I got it from a specific cache. OTOH, if I "grab" it, it means that I also have it in my grubby little hands, but that I didn't necessarily get it from the cache where the system thought it was. By some quirk of nature, I have come by that TB, and I now "officially" have it. Is that pretty close to being it?

I know such a simple concept shouldn't be confusing, but it is. I see this phrase in the FAQ info for Travel Bugs: "Once you log that you have either picked up a Travel Bug or grabbed it, you can drop it off into a cache." What's the difference between "picking up" a bug, and "grabbing" it? A newbie thanks you...