Texas-Gal
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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!
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Thanks, J - it sounds like I need to edit out all my <br> tags, and let the autoformatter do its thing.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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Oh - and since the Canadian exchange was so successful, I'd be willing to do another exchange with someone else overseas!
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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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check out Texas-Gals post on the Austin areas nominations for best caches Austin Cache Nominations.
Not sure how much time you will have but a lot of great caches listed there.
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.).
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Only four more days left to get your final votes in for the inaugual Austin Cache Awards!
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Help, pleas give some examples of how you knew you found the cache (BEFORE you found the container)
some pics of before and after would help too
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!
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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!
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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!
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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!
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I tried what you said jbhooker3, but no "drop" list appeared when I went to edit my log. I can drop off the bug, however, if I were to write a new note. (and then hopefully pick it up again.) Would this screw up the tracking distance or history of the bug?
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.
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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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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.]
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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!
I post pictures, logs of my adventures, stuff about hidden caches, travel bugs, links etc.
the-cache.com Texas-Gal's Geocaching Site
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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
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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...
It’s right at the high tide line so I think ownership is moot.
)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
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quote:
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...
It’s right at the high tide line so I think ownership is moot.
)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
A Mobile Cache?
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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.