[Renewed My Membership Again]

<Yes, but you didn't get Über Genius - v3.0>

 

What do you want for $30 bucks....?

[Renewed My Membership Again]

If I didn't give my $30 bucks for Geocaching....I'd just spend it somewhere else.

 

And I got another "+" in my "Radium Upgrade".

[Release Notes 6/24/09]

<past couple sprints>

 

Good....Agile

 

Thanks for the info.

[Forum Performance?]

<My vote is for using off the shelf software and start new.>

 

No off The Shelf Software does everything you need it to do. There is always some customizing to do...

[Clarifying Proximity Guidelines]

<And I think the main reason for that was that I *gasp!* read and understood the guidelines BEFORE submitting the cache! >

 

Maybe you were lucky and didn't place it near an Invisible Cache (Part of a Multi-Cache)....that you have no way of knowing it was there...unless you ask the reviewer if your cache placement is ok before hand.

[Forum Performance?]

I can't even get in to log my finds today....it just sits there saying "Waiting".

[Forum Server must have ran out of mem again]

<he only time that I have a problem with the Forum's is between 1100 and 1430 CST.>

 

Yea...it didn't work for me at 1355 CST

[Spoil YOUR OWN puzzles here]

<Actually, TheTexasGringo and Drooling Mongoloid are one and the same. Name was changed for PC reasons. Right, TG?>

 

Yes....I originally had this kind up in Madison, Wi....then when I moved back down here to Dallas....people didn't like my name...they said it was not Politically Correct and I got some bad emails expressing that....

 

So, I became the Texas Gringo.....Now all of the Gringo's in Texas are mad at me...for making fun of them....and so it goes.

[Spoil YOUR OWN puzzles here]

<Are you still looking for a spoiler on that one? I'd tell you the deep, dark "secret", but the thread title suggests I only give spoilers for my own hides.>

 

Go ahead...be my guest....Don't hold back....Give him all the help he needs.

[Metal Detectors]

<Make sure it's legal to use one - they're commonly banned in city parks and the like.>

 

I have used metal detectors since the Fisher M-Scope (Tubes)....and always searched in parks...until several years ago when they were banned....I now have a Fisher CZ-70 Pro that I use where allowed.

 

The problem was that people used to dig holes looking for something and then never covering the holes back up....leaving a mess.

[Spoil YOUR OWN puzzles here]

<I have a complaint. I wasted my time solving that puzzle, only to find out it's a micro.>

 

BUMMER.....That is 60 Seconds you will NEVER get back.

 

Maybe I should have just put the Coordinate picture First and you would not have to waste 60 seconds to see it is a Micro....LOL

[Spoil YOUR OWN puzzles here]

<Nice. Are you the same guy that makes those anoying halloween emails (look realy hard at this picture to see proof of ghostes...BOO).>

 

Thanks for an Idea.....BOO !!! LOL

[Anyone Doing Wherigo?]

<There are 4 Wherigo caches within 50 miles.>

 

I'm in the Dallas area....and there are only 6 within 100 miles.

[Spoil YOUR OWN puzzles here]

Here is my Puzzle Cache that ANY GEOCACHER in the world can solve in under 60 seconds.

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...ba-966914bf53f1

[Anyone Doing Wherigo?]

This is a more popular Forum to get an answer than the Wherigo one...last post there was a couple days ago.

 

Are any of you playing Wherigo or making Wherigo cartridges?

 

If not now...Are you thinking about doing it in the future?

 

Just wondering...if it is becoming popular...maybe I'll upgrade to the Garmin 550 when it comes out and try to write a couple cartridges for people to play....if not...then I'll just keep my 60csx.

[Logging A "Found It" After A "Didn't Find It"]

I leave the original DNF and make a new FOUND log entry.

[Lousy Server]

The other day I kept getting "Server Busy" and "Service Unavailable" for quite a while.

 

Usually (including today) I just get "Waiting For Geocaching.com" or "Waiting For Forums.Groundspeak.com".

 

These messages have happened much more frequently in the last month or so.

[updating 60cx with CN 2009 Update]

I buy the new ones every year...not an update. I have used GPS City for a couple years to buy stuff...no problems.

https://www.gpscity.com/

 

I have a 2 gig card and it holds the whole USA on it with some room left over. It just takes forever to load it.

 

My 60Csx works fine too...no problems.

[The Best Geocache in Minnesota - Confiscated by the Cops]

At least the cops were nice enough to posted new coordinates....

 

(44 degrees 44’ 29.70 N by 92 degrees 53’ 09.72 W)

[Resident Zones and GPS Hiccups?]

There are some "1 degree of seperation" caches that I just drive by when I see GZ...I hardly ever do them because it looks too suspicious to others hunting around someone's house.

[Geocacher's Machines]

This gets me through most of the brush....

 

[Garmin Officially Announces Oregon 550 and 550t]

From the complaints on the previous Garmin Units...I wish they would just fix them instead of announcing new units.

 

I'd hate to buy this and be unsatisfied like the previous owners who bought the newer units.

 

For now, I'll stick with my 60CSX...it has done me good.

[Under rated hides]

For a particular cache...a 1.5 rating may mean different challenges to different people.

 

There are a couple 1 ratings that I have never found....people before me have found it and people after me have found it....but me...Nope.

[New Cache Notifications]

Thank You Very Much....

[GARMIN gpsMAP 60 CSx - UNIT SOFTWARE V 3.90]

I've upgraded my 60CSX with 3.9 when it first came out.

 

I have since then loaded the whole USA (City Navigator 2009) on mine with no problems.

 

I have geocached without a single problem...no hangups no blue screens...no slower lock-on's...nothing. The only thing is the "D" missing on the sattellite screen.