A milestone ... or mile-pebble

[+Dread_Pirate_Bruce]

I've been heading for a milestone, my 2900th cache. Today, I got number 2899. It was a nano just stuck on a sign. It took longer to park than to make the grab. Later, I sat down at the computer to look for something special for #2900. However, as I started to look, I saw one lone cache on an otherwise clear area of the map on GC.com. So, I looked at it ... and realized I'd already found it, but had failed to log it.

 

Which means that the crummy little #2899 was really #2900. Some milestone.

[+ihorn]

Well if you never logged it on line then just lie to yourself, and go find another 2900.

[GOF and Bacall]

Well you have it all screwed up now. Nothing else to do but start over. What cache are you planning for your first find?

Edited May 14, 2010 by GOF & Bacall

[+JoesBar]

Milestones are whatever you want them to be. 2900 is a big deal. It's far more than I have. But 3000 is a nice round number. Log the unlogged cache and plan ahead for the big 3K.

[knowschad]

As a mathematician friend of mine once said, "a milestone is just a round number in the decimal system". There are other numbering systems besides decimal. Try 256, 1024, etc instead.

[+tozainamboku]

Bruce

 

Congratulations on the milestone! Don't let it bother you. I purposely did a Dooley LPC for my 4000th cache.

[+Team Black-Cat]

I've been messing up .1K milestones since our 100th. I gave up trying to keep it right. I pick out a destination cache for the day and regardless of how the numbers work out, that one becomes the milestone.

I have a friend that's a bit OCD and can't figure out how I can be comfortable doing it that way.

[Mr.Yuck]

I've been heading for a milestone, my 2900th cache. Today, I got number 2899. It was a nano just stuck on a sign. It took longer to park than to make the grab. Later, I sat down at the computer to look for something special for #2900. However, as I started to look, I saw one lone cache on an otherwise clear area of the map on GC.com. So, I looked at it ... and realized I'd already found it, but had failed to log it.

 

Which means that the crummy little #2899 was really #2900. Some milestone.

 

But wait a minute... I thought people placed nano's on signs because they like finding them. Oops, wrong thread, never mind.

 

Well, I'll let you slide. But don't let it happen for the big 3 oh oh oh, OK?

[+Viajero Perdido]

Haven't you ever celebrated New Year's Eve at 3:00 am? (Or if you have kids, at 8:00 pm?)

 

Haven't you ever adjusted the order of logging your day's finds so you could compliment a good cache with a '00 find?

 

Haven't you ever conveniently forgotten past lovers when in the presence of your current one? (You're #1, Hon!)

 

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Congrats on your milestone!

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PS: One of my milestones, according to a bud who was keeping track on our road trip. (My accounting varies...)

Edited May 14, 2010 by Viajero Perdido

[+NYPaddleCacher]

Haven't you ever celebrated New Year's Eve at 3:00 am? (Or if you have kids, at 8:00 pm?)

 

 

It's always 3:00AM or 8:00PM somewhere in the world.

 

I was out in California when I was approaching my 600th find. I found a particular cache that I targeted for my 600th find and needed about 8 caches when I started out in the morning. I wrote down each find as I found it along with the number then went after that target cache. It actually showed up as my 600th find for awhile but somehow I had a find deleted so now it's showing up as #599.

 

That cache, as it turns out, was a nano. It's located just outside a club where the very first pong game was installed. I was working for Atari just a short time after that event happened building/testing the first home version of Pong so even though it was a nano the location had some significance for me.

 

I'm currently at 999 finds and was told that a golden ammo is going to be placed for my 1000th find. Hopefully it'll go out this weekend because I'm speaking at a conference in Illinois on Monday and flying into Indy so that I can do some cacheing in both states on the way.

[+Wagonmaker]

I like the idea of having my milestone be whichever cache I "naturally" found in that order, rather than planning it. Each cache is a good time (... OK, MOST caches), otherwise I wouldn't bother finding them!

 

I agree with other posters: Congrats on your milestone and look forward to 3000!

[+Knight2000]

What difference does it make? If finding the nano bothered you that much than stop searching for LPC's and the like.

 

I do not understand this concept at all. What is the difference between cache 12, 200, 632, 1000, or 1001? Nothing except the order of your finds.

 

My wife had a great idea about a milestone of ours.

[+DragonsWest]

Yep. Numbers is just counting. If we were like cartoon characters we'd be doing our counting in OCTAL.

 

Have some fun with the numbers along the way, rather than just the nice round ones.

 

My 1234th find was a CITO

 

and just yesterday I became ...

 

p|-|33r my m4d c4c|-|1n6 5ki112 d00d2!

[+BulldogBlitz]

Yep. Numbers is just counting. If we were like cartoon characters we'd be doing our counting in OCTAL.

 

Have some fun with the numbers along the way, rather than just the nice round ones.

 

My 1234th find was a CITO

 

and just yesterday I became ...

 

p|-|33r my m4d c4c|-|1n6 5ki112 d00d2!

 

it hurts my brain trying to read that last line... i must be old.

[+GeoGeeBee]

Yep. Numbers is just counting. If we were like cartoon characters we'd be doing our counting in OCTAL.

 

Have some fun with the numbers along the way, rather than just the nice round ones.

 

My 1234th find was a CITO

 

and just yesterday I became ...

 

p|-|33r my m4d c4c|-|1n6 5ki112 d00d2!

 

it hurts my brain trying to read that last line... i must be old.

 

Oh stewardess, I speak jive leet. Allow me to translate:

 

Found: 1337 = Found: LEET.

 

And the last line says "Fear my mad caching skills, dudes!"

[+BulldogBlitz]

 

Oh stewardess, I speak jive leet. Allow me to translate:

 

Found: 1337 = Found: LEET.

 

And the last line says "Fear my mad caching skills, dudes!"

 

jive turkey don't want no help...

 

jive turkey don't get no help!

 

[+Dread_Pirate_Bruce]

Now I feel better about the whole thing.

[Chumpo]

Yep. Numbers is just counting. If we were like cartoon characters we'd be doing our counting in OCTAL.

 

Have some fun with the numbers along the way, rather than just the nice round ones.

 

My 1234th find was a CITO

 

and just yesterday I became ...

 

p|-|33r my m4d c4c|-|1n6 5ki112 d00d2!

 

 

Ha! I celebrated my "Leet" cache as well

 

The decryption link no longer works, but my log should be easy enough to read- if you're 1337, that is.

 

Log

[Andronicus]

I have always tried to make a memorable cache for my milestones, but so far no luck. I just can't seem to stop caching long enough. It always seems to be some run fo the mill local cache hidden under a pile of sticks.

[+Chokecherry]

Finally found a nano today (one of 2 I had been looking for and only second time out for this one). It was a milestone for the day. My very last one of the day and my very first nano.

[+dakboy]

As a mathematician friend of mine once said, "a milestone is just a round number in the decimal system". There are other numbering systems besides decimal. Try 256, 1024, etc instead.

That milestone after 1024 is a real killer.

[+dakboy]

Haven't you ever celebrated New Year's Eve at 3:00 am? (Or if you have kids, at 8:00 pm?)

In their "young & partying" days, my parents celebrated New Year's Eve every hour starting at 7 PM 12/31 Eastern, till they got to Hawaii.

[M.TEX]

Wow !!!!! I found my 25th yesterday and I had found before. I didn't log

the book because I couldn't opem the container. ( was a April fools day ) cache and the requirements was to LOG online ONLY if you could

get to the log book. I had to delete my first online log and yesterday I went back to get the box opem. I end up been the FTF on a new log book.

Thanks to my mistake first time or to the owner that told me delete

my log that day....

[+DENelson83]

As a mathematician friend of mine once said, "a milestone is just a round number in the decimal system". There are other numbering systems besides decimal. Try 256, 1024, etc instead.

That milestone after 1024 is a real killer.

Yeah, I personally like using "power of two" milestones.