Texas-Gal

Here in Austin, we have The Rock That Rolls (GCCF79) - which not only has been successfully rolling around for over a year, but also won the award as the BEST CACHE in all of Austin! (Austin Cache Awards) It's sad when you think that the best cache in Austin couldn't even get placed now.

http://www.the-cache.com/links.html

I haven't yet had PI, but I think that's due to sheer luck - because I realized this weekend while caching in Waco that I clearly didn't know what to look for. Texas is COVERED in PI - and Waco in particular is known for it - so I know I've definitely been around it a lot. We saw forests of PI, the plants taller than me, the leaf spread bigger than my face, and vines around trees thicker than my arm. Yowza!

Thanks, J - it sounds like I need to edit out all my <br> tags, and let the autoformatter do its thing.

OK, let me add more details which might impact the analysis. When I first go to "edit" my Profile, just to test it out, and even though I have made NO changes, I get this error: String or binary data would be truncated. The statement has been terminated. This indicates that perhaps the maximum allowed characters have been reduced - because I never received any errors until today. OK, after trying to reduce the number of characters, and break the profile up from being just "Biography" into three pieces, I get the message first described above. The thing is, the whole profile is written in HTML, and used line breaks (<br>) throughout. Most of the thing are just short words inserted into tables, so there's not really long paragraphs of information strung together. If the error message were more specific, it would help me ID the problem- because I've been tinkering and just can't find it.

I tried to edit my profile, and have gotten this error about 10 times so far: Cannot create a row of size 10310 which is greater than the allowable maximum of 8060. The statement has been terminated. I've tried messing with the number of characters in each "row", but don't really know what a "row" is. Does that mean paragraph? The whole profile? I broke my profile up, and posted part of it into each available section, but that doesn't help either.

My family knows my dorky side- heck, I got my love of gadgets from my dorky Dad- but I still don't think they "get" geocaching. I embrace my dorky side that geocaches and plays GameCube just like I embrace the part of me that loves sports and worships college football, and the part of me that can't get enough glitter nail polish and shiny lip gloss and listens to Britney Spears. I learned in college not to deny any of that - I worked for the Texas Football department, was in a sorority, and designed web sites. I even taught some of the coaches how to use the internet, and got some of my sorority sisters excited about football. (I don't think the football players needed to be educated about sorority girls, though) I think it will be difficult finding a guy who can understand all three (girly, sporty, geeky) sides of me. Embrace the geek!

Oh - and since the Canadian exchange was so successful, I'd be willing to do another exchange with someone else overseas!

I don't know if the link to our cache trade was ever posted, but GroundClutter and I have deployed a very well-received trade called Y'all Come Cache Now, Eh? here in Austin, Texas and up in Victoria, British Columbia. Texas Cache (and the initial contents, sent from Canada) Canadian Cache (and the initial contents, sent from Texas)

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The Austin Cache Awards were designed for just this type of situation (in addition to rewarding all the hard work of Austin cachers): give visitors to our city an idea of what locals consider to be the best caches. If you go to the awards site (which is still accepting votes for a few more days), you can see all the nominated caches, and there are direct links to each gc.com cache page. There are a whole bunch of different categories, so you can zero in on which types of caches you'd be most interested in (i.e. virtuals, difficult terrain, scenic placement, puzzles, funny, etc.). http://www.the-cache.com/vote/

Only four more days left to get your final votes in for the inaugual Austin Cache Awards!

Check out my cache page - www.the-cache.com- early on (before I got to busy to continue), I took pictures of all my cache hunts, including the container in its hidden state, and once it had been uncovered. Maybe those might help!

After a month's worth of nominations, I'm pleased to announce that the following caches have been nominated for an inaugural Austin Cache Award: Most Challenging Cache ACS#1: Austin Challenge Austin 2pi Triangulation Central Texas Cache Scramble The Hard Sell M13 Slacker Movie Cache Best Themed Cache Clue: Murder At Boddy Mansion Haiku Cache Once Upon A Cache Patches, Patches, Patches! Texas Travel Bug University Most Scenic Cache Accidental Tourist For Miles and Miles Honey Comb Cache It's Balcones Fault...Too The New Mt. Bonnell The Other Side Of The Penny Starnes Island Cache UncleRojelio's Recycled Cache Best Hard Terrain Cache EMMA's a Goth Goddess Great (Nerf) Balls of Fire Jogmuir's Quest McKinney Roughs Tough Challenge Noctis Labyrinthus Starnes Island Cache Best Educational Cache Austin History Virtual Cache Blunn Creek Preserve Dinosaur Highway Elements of Confusion Leanderthal Lady Science Lesson Virtual Cache Best Camouflaged Cache A Fortune in Cache Homing Inge Rolling Blackout Terra's Treasure Texas Travel Bug University Waterloo Park Cache Most Innovative Cache Austin Time Release Creek View Gordo's Grotto Locked, Stocked, and Buried Night's Plutonian Shore The Rock that Rolls Waterloo Park Cache Funniest Cache Britannia Manor - Skeleton Head Guardian Go Fish Homing In Kirk vs. Picard Once Upon a Time in Austin The Rock that Rolls Best Austin Showcase Accidental Tourist Bull Creek Overlook The House Is Rockin' The New Mt. Bonnell Skyline Stash Wild In The Basin, Virtual Cache Two ZORK Best Traditional Cache (regular size) Bull Creek Overlook Cedar Fever Dubble Bubble East Is Up In the Eastwoods Enigmaage Gordo's Grotto KAMM O'Can Mystery on Hancock Hill Best Traditional Cache (micro size) Between a Rock and a Hard Place But Where's the Sheriff? California Copycat Haiku Cache Koi Cache Let Me Count the Ways Best Multi-cache ACS#1: Austin Challenge Jogmuir's Quest Night's Plutonian Shore Slacker Movie Cache ZORK Best Cache Series College Bowl Series Lost in Lakeway Series YAPIDKA Series (by Moosiegirl) YAPIDKA Series (by The Outlaw) Best Virtual Cache A Peace of Neon Archive War Head Over Here So-Co So Cool Swept Away? Wild In The Basin, Virtual Cache Two Best Webcam Cache A Gumbified Cooperative Webcam Cache Walk Like An Egyptian Best Event Cache Austin GeoPoker Run Jekyll-n-Hyde's Handle Scramble Low Water Crossing Park Picnic Light The Tree New Year's Night Cachin' Eve Sign My Cast Grab An Ammo Can Best Mystery/Puzzle Cache Clue - Murder at Boddy Mansion Elements of Confusion Five Dogs Up on Top! From the Top M13 Cacher's Choice: Favorite Cache Overall ACS#1: Austin Challenge Clue - Murder at Boddy Mansionage Homing In Jogmuir's Quest Night's Plutonian Shore The Rock that Rolls Hall of Fame (placed before 1/1/2002) Bull Creek Overlook Demise of a Dot Com Enchanted Forest Hill Country Bounty Lost Pines Challenge Skyline Stash Windmill Run Park Cache Congratulations to ALL the nominees! Now it's time for final voting to begin - and this time things are much simpler: one vote only per cache, you can't vote for your own caches (or those of family members). That's it! Please go to the final voting ballot, and vote for your favorites by February 15th: http://www.the-cache.com/vote/ Final winners will be announced shortly after the ballot box closes!

One last reminder: today is your LAST day to nominate caches for the 2003 Austin Cache Awards. All nominations must be received by midnight tonight. You do not have to be an Austin cacher to vote- but only Austin-area caches are eligible. http://www.the-cache.com/vote/ Please go and nominate today, if you haven't already!

I think this is a GREAT idea - and I'd love to host a cache down here in Austin, Texas. Heck, I'd be happy to switch caches with someone in any other country - even someone from another state in the U.S. If anyone is interested, we could just mail the contents to each other - I can find an appropriate container. Or we could mail the whole thing, if you'd like. Let me know!

You cannot drop the bug in a cache by editing a previous log - you can only drop bugs with new notes or logs. You can write a new note for that cache dropping the bug, pick up the bug again from the same cache, and then delete that note (so it doesn't even have to clutter up the cache page). Dropping and re-removing the bug from the same cache shouldn't affect the bugs maps- but make sure and note what you're doing and why on the bug's page, so that the owner knows what's up.

Personally, I love micros. I'm much more an urban caching kind of girl, since I cache alone, rather than a big-hike-in-the-woods-cacher. Micros also generally help me out, since I have a job with very long hours - I can get to these easier than a lot of ammo-can type caches. I also love the challenge of a clever hiding place more than the challenge of a tough trek -- not that there aren't tons of regular caches in clever hiding places as well! But then again, it seems that most of the micros I've found have been well-placed, and I can see how it would be frustrating in some cases to find a teeny-tiny micro in the midst of a vast forest after a long hike. I've placed a few as well, all at the end of a puzzle cache - again out of personal preference, because the puzzle/mystery caches are often the most fun for me, and the cache container at the end is just a means of verifying the solution to the puzzle. I guess that's what makes this so much fun -- I can cut out all the 4+ terrain caches, but still get to visit tons of the kind of caches I like to find. There's something for everyone!

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quote:Originally posted by Team Kaz:The worst used stuff I saw was used play dough! Yuk.. But what is junk to some, is treasure to others. OK, this has me worried: I buy bags and bags of little pots of Play-doh, put two different colors in a plastic bag, and leave one or two sets in every cache I go to (where they will fit). I figured that if I'm 27 and would enjoy getting Play-doh, there would be others, too. But is that not the case? Is Play-doh a crap trinket to leave behind? the-cache.com Texas-Gal's Geocaching Site [This message was edited by Texas-Gal on October 23, 2003 at 02:20 PM.]

I fear I've put way too much effort into my geocaching website, considering I'm probably the only one who visits... But it's fun! www.the-cache.com I post pictures, logs of my adventures, stuff about hidden caches, travel bugs, links etc. the-cache.com Texas-Gal's Geocaching Site

Had my first all-out run-in with chiggers over a month ago. It took a few days for all the bites to show up (I'd estimate around 30 all around each ankle), but over 4 weeks later, they have yet to fade away... the-cache.com Texas-Gal's Geocaching Site

quote:It’s right at the high tide line so I think ownership is moot. Just to clarify, in case you or anyone else was wondering about this issue, when property is located along a body of water, property lines almost always extend out tens (or even hundreds) of feet out into that body of water - with exceptions only when specifically delineated in the deed as recorded with the county/city. Although the property owner does not then "own" Lake Travis, the Colorado River or the Gulf of Mexico, he does "own" part of the land underneath it. I think this is done precisely to avoid confusion like that above- without this principle, people would own different sizes of property when the tide is high or low, or when the river is flooded or dry. By extending property lines out into the water, that person's property size stays the same (and so do his taxes... ) Of course, the public has the right of access to public lakes/rivers/ocean - but that does not mean the land you are allowed to walk across, even right up on the edge of the water (and underneath it), doesn't belong to someone. Now back to your regularly scheduled conversation... the-cache.com Texas-Gal's Geocaching Site

quote:It’s right at the high tide line so I think ownership is moot. Just to clarify, in case you or anyone else was wondering about this issue, when property is located along a body of water, property lines almost always extend out tens (or even hundreds) of feet out into that body of water - with exceptions only when specifically delineated in the deed as recorded with the county/city. Although the property owner does not then "own" Lake Travis, the Colorado River or the Gulf of Mexico, he does "own" part of the land underneath it. I think this is done precisely to avoid confusion like that above- without this principle, people would own different sizes of property when the tide is high or low, or when the river is flooded or dry. By extending property lines out into the water, that person's property size stays the same (and so do his taxes... ) Of course, the public has the right of access to public lakes/rivers/ocean - but that does not mean the land you are allowed to walk across, even right up on the edge of the water (and underneath it), doesn't belong to someone. Now back to your regularly scheduled conversation... the-cache.com Texas-Gal's Geocaching Site