Month: September 2009

Boyd Pond

Boyd PondWe spent a pleasant morning traipsing through the woods surrounding Boyd Pond today. Boyd Pond is a recreation area slash park that is southwest of Aiken and when we first moved here it was available only to employees of the Big Bomb Plant, but now it is open to every Tom, Dick & Harry (I think.) There is a switchback laden trail on the east side of the lake for hiking and biking along with a straighter, shorter nature trail. On the west side is a park with a boat launch, picnic tables, playgrounds and softball fields. We did all 5 caches here, 3 east and two west while walking 4-1/2 miles.

Lunch was outside at Moe’s watching the Whiskey Road traffic zoom by and the afternoon was spent watching Season 7 Disc 2 of West Wing. Only 15 episodes left…

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Really Expensive Pedometer II

Have I mentioned lately that my GPSr isn’t working? I thought so. We are approximately 4 days into the 12 to 15 working days before our repaired unit is scheduled to be returned to us.

Two working days into the process we knew we wouldn’t be able to make it that long. We bought a new Garmin eTrex Vista? HCx from Walmart online and had it shipped to us. The UPS man dropped it on the doorstep this afternoon.

This is a slightly upgraded unit compared to the one that is broken and in for repair. It has a micrSD slot so there can be a lot more stuff stored in the unit, like gigabytes worth instead of just 24 Meg. It has an electric compass, so when I stop befuddled in the middle of the woods while looking for a cache, the needle will still be pointing at the cache instead flopping around. It has a barometric altimeter, so I will know how high we are above sea level (which the Venture does too when the topo maps are used) or maybe when there is an approaching storm. It also has the ability to give point to point on road directions like a Tom Tom or similar, but we probably will never use that feature.

There are ammo cans shaking in there hiding spots just knowing we are back in the game again.

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Should I Update My Will?

A distraught senior citizen phoned her doctor’s office.

“Is it true,” she wanted to know, “that the medication you prescribed has to be taken for the rest of my life?”

“Yes, I’m afraid so,” the doctor told her.

There was a moment of silence before the senior lady replied, “I’m wondering then, just how serious my condition is, this prescription is marked ‘NO REFILLS’.”

4.5 Months To Go

Until Season 6 of TDTVS. They are already filming episodes in Hawaii and like the junkie I am I’m already reading the spoilers…

I had downloaded all the Season 5 vids from a back alley of the interweb and burned them onto DVDs. I lent these out to a co-worker a couple of weeks ago and yesterday he came up to me and asked what he needed to do to get another set of discs. Seems he has misplaced them. He has turned his office, home and cars inside out with no luck. Curiously a Neflix disc of Air Bud: Golden Receiver (AKA: Air Bud II) is also missing from his possession. Coincidence, I think not.

This Sunday is Episode 5 of TDTVS2 and AMC is going to run a mini-marathon of the first 4 episodes leading into numero cinco. Guess where I’ll be from 6:00PM until 11:00PM?

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The Monkey Needs More Soap

Sometime over the weekend I got something stuck between a couple of back teeth. Rigorous flossing removed the offending piece of food stuff. Later that day I poked my tongue back there and felt something sharp. And a hole. Great, I probably busted the edge of a tooth that was probably mostly filling. Visions of expensive crowns danced in my head.

Fortunately it only ached a little back there, not hurt, and it was sensitive to temperature. Tuesday I called the dentist and they had just had a cancellation for Wednesday at 11:00AM. Today was my lucky day. Turns out I had broke out an existing filling, so they just had to clean out the hole, scrape off a little tooth material and pack the hole full of Mighty Putty.

Our Dirty Monkey is really a lotion dispenser, but we use him for hand soap.

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Mr-Miata.net`s DNA

Mr. Miata Dot Net's DNAVia io9: DNA Portraits Reveal Your Inner Beauty.

They list three options for turning your DNA into actual art. These companies will send you a sampling kit which you then return for processing. Then you work with them choosing colors, images, etc. to get something that you would be proud to display in your home. One company wants $1500, another wants $299 and third ranges from $120 to $499.

There is a 4th option to get some DNA art and the price is right, free, but it is not your DNA, it is your website’s (or any web site for that matter.) WEB2DNA Art Project’s representation of this site is the image above.

Afraid to turn your web site’s DNA loose on the internet for fear of cloning, how about a simple dot graph? You can get that at aharef.info.

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Yucca Valley

Yucca ValleyWe saw no yucca plants on the Yucca Valley trail in Hitchcock Woods when we traveled it yesterday. I would tell you how far we walked in the woods, but I can’t because our GPSr is broken and hopefully in Olathe, Kansas by now.

This morning we got up early-ish and rode a big loop ending up downtown to pay bills. Unfortunately the New Moon wasn’t open so we couldn’t get a muffin for breakfast. Ended up at Waffle House.

After breakfast we drove over to Augusta to take a picture of a hockey puck in front of the James Brown Arena, which is as close to geocaching as we could get. Have I mentioned our GPSr is broken?

On the way home from Georgia a line of birds started to waltz out out in front of us way out on Pine Log Rd. They got part way and turned around and then as soon as I got by they came back out and completed the trip.

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