Sioneva
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*** Alcohol saturation is a different matter.
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I'm 80% sure that you are in the wrong forum. IIRC, both Missouri and Kansas (not sure which KC you are in) are classed as "Great Plains" states, instead of the Midwest. I don't live in KC, but I've cached there, they have a great group of helpful cachers. Try reposting in, or checking out the websites listed in, the Great Plains forum. Hope this helps!
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I can't GET to the site of some of my (currently disabled) caches to take pictures of how flooded they are. I knew North Platte was getting it bad, but I didn't realize the Platte was in flood out by where you are, SB. I'll try to get pics this weekend though. It's insane.
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Nobody ever came up to me and ask if I am "Coldgears" This is discriminatory behavior and I will not stand for it! ARE YOU NOW, OR HAVE YOU EVER BEEN, COLDGEARS???
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Uh- please tell me you are joking... But... But... Think of the smileys! Lots and lots of smileys! Thinking of them. ... Okay, I'm done!
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First, only a small proportion of cachers actually use the forums (fora). This is the more serious forum, and tempers can run high here sometimes, but that's typical of most forums, or so I understand. The Off-Topic forum is more laid back, but also a LOT weirder. But comparing the forums in general to the geocaching community is kinda like comparing callers in to talk radio to the general public. And I've been to over 50 events, enjoyed them all, so... Course, I like to think I'm a nice person, if very strange, but doesn't everyone?
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Just because it's a virtual, doesn't mean it won't suck. The current trend in geocaching these days seems to be "Easier is better", as areas become saturated with P&Gs. Note: This is an observation/opinion, not a complaint. The P&G crowd are playing the way they want, and mostly doing so within the guidelines. I'm just pointing out that with today's trends, the chance for suckiness is high. For instance, I have a butt load of waypoints, (2000+), in a GSAK file, ready to create a virtual power trail running the length of Interstate 4. Because the highway is so wide. I'll be able to keep my linear distance from cache to cache a lot closer than 528', as I stagger them from one side of the highway to the other. If the virtuals don't have some significant restrictions such as the old "Wow" factor, I will publish these under a sock account. The irony is, there are folks who will sing my sock's praises for the creaton of such a monstrosity, celebrating the fact that they can now rack up over 2000 finds with a 4 hour round trip drive. Uh- please tell me you are joking...
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The first bolded statement completely contradicts the other two. ???
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On your first ever cache hidden.....
Sioneva replied to Snoogans's topic in General geocaching topics
Good god, has it really been almost five years since I hid my first cache? From Unnatural Pile of Rocks: I watched that cache like a hawk, did a dance when it was found, and kept going back there to check on it. Only ever had to replace the container once for vandalism and once because the rubbermaid cracked. It's still going strong! -
Don't go caching in this playground!
Sioneva replied to Gamaliel's topic in General geocaching topics
Really? I've never been in a library that did that. -
Don't go caching in this playground!
Sioneva replied to Gamaliel's topic in General geocaching topics
No, we're still talking about activities. It is illegal to be in the park without a child. "Be" is a verb. It's an activity. It's an activity that is illegal in that park. You cannot BE in the park without a child. Just like drinking booze, roller-blading, selling things, and walking dogs are illegal in many parks. If you're not satisfied with "be" then "accompany" is also an activity. You cannot be in the park unless you are accompanying a child. Are you also anti-library? Because they only let people with library cards take out books. Maybe we should take them to court for discrimination, since they are public places (that are tax-payer-funded!) that have restrictions on allowing certain people to perform certain activities. Uh, libraries aren't allowed to tell people they can't come in. I work in a library. There are certainly areas of a library that have restrictions as to who can be there. There are staff only areas and at least in my library study rooms that can only be used by graduate students. We also have restrictions about cell phone use and eating donuts (or any other food) in the library. I've been in lots of different libraries from the National Agriculture Libraries in both the U.S. and Tanzania, to the libraries at the World Bank and Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations to a tiny one room library in a trade college in Costa Rica. Libraries probably have as many or more restrictions than public parks but I *have* found geocaches in a couple of them. I was actually thinking of the Richard Kreimer case in Morristown, NJ, but I just researched it a bit more and I didn't know that the verdict was reversed on appeal. So, mea culpa on that part. -
Don't go caching in this playground!
Sioneva replied to Gamaliel's topic in General geocaching topics
The percentage isn't that high here, either. And it's not necessary, but the level of hyperventilating paranoia is going off the scale here, and I have no idea why. I don't know the root causes... does anyone? -
Mine was from The End of Marion: And you know what? I was right about the addiction.
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Don't go caching in this playground!
Sioneva replied to Gamaliel's topic in General geocaching topics
Uh, great, I guess, but I still don't see why a child is required, if someone wants to eat a donut or go down a slide. The rules are there in the library for a reason, to protect library resources, whether taking out a book or accessing the internet. Do people hurt a bench by sitting on it? A slide by going down it? A child, if they happen to make eye contact? Pople have a right to use a park they help pay taxes to maintain. No one asks if they have children when the time comes to collect the taxes, why make them 'borrow' a child to peacefully enjoy what they've helped pay for? In any case, I'm glad I don't live where I have to take into account these stupid practices. -
Don't go caching in this playground!
Sioneva replied to Gamaliel's topic in General geocaching topics
I don't see that as equal at all. Are you saying that people should go out and get a child simply so they can use the park that they pay for with their tax dollars. I think this is asking a bit much. A library card is just a piece of paper and a little easier to obtain than a child and involves a smidge less responsibility and commitment. That said, I have no problem from them saying I cannot use the equipment because I am an adult just like I cannot check out a book without a card (I don't know of a library that won't let you in at all without a card). But to deny legal entry altogether is going too far. No, I'm trying to say that people have just as much legal right to go into a park as they do into a library. And that what they do in a library or a park is the activity, entering the park or library is not. For the record, I still enjoying playing on playground equipment sometimes. If it's big enough. I like slides. I like climbing stuff. I have no children and none around to borrow for camo... I wouldn't like to be told I couldn't do it because I might be a molester. -
Don't go caching in this playground!
Sioneva replied to Gamaliel's topic in General geocaching topics
entering Library = entering Park using library card = using playground equipment. Why is this equivalency so hard ... no, never mind. Yeah. It's like picking a scab, it's so hard to leave it alone. Someone please stop me. Please. Edit: Besides, this really doesn't have anything to do with geocaching. Donuts, yes. -
Oh, great and wonderous blue bow! We're planning a visit about the 6th of July. The EarthCache at Indian Mounds looks great, but I don't think we'll have the time for it. My cching partner is from Guttenberg, NJ, so w'll be visiting Guttenberg Ia to compare the two Guttenbergs. We want to drive down the Great River Road from Minn, to Davenport, and hope for the best. So, I'll be interest to hear what recommendations you receive. Why is it I always miss people by two days?
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Don't go caching in this playground!
Sioneva replied to Gamaliel's topic in General geocaching topics
Those are better examples than the library. Your library anaolgy fails. Those don't. And it's still wrong to to treat everyone like they are a sexual molester when they are just sitting peacefully eating donuts. And I'm done. -
Don't go caching in this playground!
Sioneva replied to Gamaliel's topic in General geocaching topics
Uh, libraries aren't allowed to tell people they can't come in. You missed the point completely. What I'm saying is that a library is a public place that limits the activities that certain people can do. In a library, you cannot take out a book (an ACTIVITY!) unless you are accompanied by a library card. In this park, you cannot enter (an ACTIVITY!) unless you are accompanied by a child. No, I think you did. You can enter a library. Some people can take books out. A library is just as public a place as a park. Why can you enter one and not the other? Your analogy breaks down - the equivalent comparision would be to say, "You can enter the park, but only certain people can play on the equipment, or use the restroom". -
Don't go caching in this playground!
Sioneva replied to Gamaliel's topic in General geocaching topics
No, we're still talking about activities. It is illegal to be in the park without a child. "Be" is a verb. It's an activity. It's an activity that is illegal in that park. You cannot BE in the park without a child. Just like drinking booze, roller-blading, selling things, and walking dogs are illegal in many parks. If you're not satisfied with "be" then "accompany" is also an activity. You cannot be in the park unless you are accompanying a child. Are you also anti-library? Because they only let people with library cards take out books. Maybe we should take them to court for discrimination, since they are public places (that are tax-payer-funded!) that have restrictions on allowing certain people to perform certain activities. Uh, libraries aren't allowed to tell people they can't come in. -
Well, goody for you, to live in an area where there are so many events. Within 30 miles of my home, we may not have even one a year. Within 50 miles, yeah, there's one listed so far for June, and there were a few earlier this year--less than one a month. There wasn't an event my first spring/summer caching. It wasn't until someone on vacation and held an event that there was an event here and that was in November and 20 miles away. All like 5 of us active cachers went. I'm hosting an event this summer just so all like 5 of us can have some bonding time. I notice there's a ton of events in the more populated area south of me. I'm kind of glad it's not like that here. Sometimes I read the event titles of the weekly or scheduled events in bigger areas and feel like they sound like 12 step meetings at times. Central Iowa east of me is plastered with events. Way too many events, IMHO, but I don't go to any of them, and my opinion doesn't count. If that's what they like, okay, let em. Cachers over here tend to go for recurring events, weekly or monthly breakfasts and stuff, that can only be logged once, but attended whenever you feel like dropping in. Plus, there's a Chili Feed in February, a Cache and Splash in June, an annual Fall picnic in September, some kind of Halloween event, and a Holiday Pizza Party in December, every year. Spaced out enough that it's always fun, and it feels like a reunion instead of "oh, no, not these people again".
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Don't go caching in this playground!
Sioneva replied to Gamaliel's topic in General geocaching topics
That kind of crap is why I live in the country outside of city limits. I hate the suburbs, nothing happens, it's boring and very few people are ever out. No block parties, nothing to do, no stores. Uggh. I plan to move to the city when I get old enough to buy my own house/condo/rent. I can't imagine living in rural area's. So your post is really insulting to me, and everyone else who can't stand places other the cities. Your post is really insulting to me, and everyone else who can't stand places other the suburbs. Actually, no, it's not, anymore than his was to you... Only person it was insulting to was the doughtnut cop! I'm betting that wasn't you -
There was a group from New England who wanted to meet cachers out here in the Midwest while out on a caching trip. I helped them co-host an event out here, but they were the ones who submitted the listing to GC.com. Much fun was had by all! I don't see anything wrong with it. Nope.
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Don't go caching in this playground!
Sioneva replied to Gamaliel's topic in General geocaching topics
Clearly, the donut does. There was nothing on the sign forbidding donuts from being in the park unless accompanied by a child, but donuts lack legs. Someone has to carry them in, usually in paper sacks. And if a child is not available, what's a poor donut to do, but buttonhole the two closest ladies? O< Smarty-pants. Then... which of them has the greater need to eat a donut? Answer me that, O Blue Bow. Well, duh. The cop who cited them! -
Don't go caching in this playground!
Sioneva replied to Gamaliel's topic in General geocaching topics
'nuff said! But what if the child had a highly illicit Happy Meal? Could you go in to save the toy, at least?