Month: August 2011
The Trail With No Name
The trail this photo was taken on goes from the Mange to Rabbit Valley crossing several major thoroughfares in the woods, including Pioneer Trail, yet it has no designation of its own. I like to call it the Clint Eastwood Trail.
We did in fact go find the new cache in Hitchcock Woods this morning, but we didn’t just park, walk to, find and leave of course, we took the long way. The temperature was in the middle 70s, but the humidity felt higher and by the time we were done with our 3-3/4 mile walk my T-shirt looked like I had been running from the “Others” along with Jack, Kate and Hurley. It was a very nice walk and I think we saw or heard more woodpeckers eating breakfast than we saw humans.
Miata Top Tran?si?tions since 10/24/08: 1056
Embarassment of Caches
In a couple weeks we are heading out west to Snohomish, WA to visit Donna’s brother and his family. We are spending a little more than 2 days with them before we go on a road trip that will include western Washington, western Oregon, the tip of coastal California and back up the Oregon coast before flying home out of Seattle.
We will, of course, be doing some geocaching. The Seattle area is the birthplace of geocaching which means that there are more caches out there than you can shake a GPSr at. Our first day of traveling is from Snohomish to White Salmon, WA on the Hood River. As we are prone to do, we are not taking the most direct route, but the scenic one by going through Steven’s Pass before heading south. Google maps says it is 300 miles and that is the upper limit of what we like to drive in a day, so there is not going to be a lot of time for geocaching.
I did a Pocket Query of caches along the middle 230 miles of our route, extending to a maximum of one mile either side and it returned 334 finds! Donna and I have been taking turns trying to whittle that number of caches down, with our criteria being: convenient to the direction of travel on the route, not too difficult and be somewhat scenic. So far we have managed to get it down to 217 and it really needs to be more in the neighborhood of 30. We are obviously going to be leaving a ton of terrific hides off our To Do List and from the descriptions I’ve been reading we could spend our entire week and a half out ther just hiking the trails and geocaching along this one day’s drive. We are not too saddened by this development, as the journey is always the reason, any geocaching is just a bonus.
Closer to home, there is a new cache in Hitchcock Woods, the replacement for our just archived cache “The Birds”, called “North by Northwest” that we will probably go hunting for tomorrow.
I’m Nearly Speechless
In spite of what the content of the actual movie is, the trailer is surprisingly SFW (Safe For Work.)
httpvh://youtu.be/QiKPjPLPLh4
TV shows like Star Trek or X-Files, OK, but this? An XXX parody of Star Wars? Sacrilege! Although if it didn’t include some possible kiddie stuff, the parodies of Episodes I, II & III might be improvements over Speilberg’s efforts.
Miata Top Tran?si?tions since 10/24/08: 1055
That’s Entertainment?
I get the start of my online news at Google. It is kind of neat in that you can customize it to your needs (you just know I’ve a Red Sox section), but the flip side is it creepily customizes itself to you from what you click on.
Browsing there just now. As I scanned down the page and got down to the Entertainment section, this headline was one of the two there, “Robyn Gardner Goes Missing in Aruba: A Maryland woman has vanished in Aruba after taking a snorkeling trip with a friend, MyFoxDC reports.” This is entertainment?
Oh yeah, I forgot, it *is* entertainment. And I bet Nancy Grace is just overjoyed, this comes around in the nick of time because the public’s interest in Casey Anthony is really waning.
Dressing Up Special
A co-worker who has been serving in Afghanistan for the past year with the National Guard is back stateside and returns to work next Monday. His direct supervisor David, who sits in the cube next to me, mentioned last week that he needed to get Ron’s cube set back up. When he left for Sand Land we were still up front in the old offices and now we are back in our shiny new area (except for the carpet that has gotten ugly from machine oil footprints.)
David thought maybe we should all dress up special for Ron’s first day back. He then wondered out loud where the nearest turban outlet might be…
I’m thinking keffiyehs would be “better.”
Miata Top Tran?si?tions since 10/24/08: 1053
Geez, Could You Speed It Up A Bit?
5-1/2 innings or only 61% of tonight’s game and it has taken 2 hours and 20 minutes to play. The score? One to one. This puppy is going to be over around midnight or approximately 1 hour after I’m in bed because I’m taking a shower as soon as this half inning is over.