The Aftermath

Friday was a strange day. After the shenanigans of GeoLeap 2024 the day before, it felt weird having to go back to work. Leap Day felt like a Saturday! I intended to go to a morning event at a donut shop, but after my previous long day on the road and late evening writing about it, that wasn’t going to happen. Heck, I spent the morning working from home instead of going into the office because I just didn’t feel up to an early morning commute anywhere.

Once work was over, I headed over to an evening Event at a local resort/arcade/water park. Along with my giant milkshake, I had conversations with cachers from Oklahoma and Idaho and old friends and acquaintances. I ended up telling several people about the Necropolis at Britannia Manor and how important it was that they do that cache above all others in the area. I called it early, though. It had been a long day, and I didn’t want to miss out on the CITO the next morning. If you’re going to have a Mega somewhere, the least you can do is pay something forward.

Often, a CITO is merely some kind of trash pickup, but on Saturday we did some other service. We were tasked by the host park’s maintenance department with some work on the pool area that would be opening back up in the spring. Some of us spread mulch. Others of us stained a gazebo. Still others (the coolest ones, in my humble opinion) painted a storage shed. Normally, if I were to talk about the Greens and the Blues, I would be invoking an entirely different subject. But this time, we did not race; we employed only our brushes and rollers. Prasini! Prasini!

One of the slackers even got rare (headless) video footage of your humble narrator singing along on our chain gang. It may or may not render for you. If it does not, well, you should have been there! In the end, we did good works, but we were all tired. Many wanted to get some more caching done before making their way home that day or the next. I just wanted to take a nap. I was still drained from Leap Day, and I didn’t need to find every cache because I had lots of time to come back for more of them.

Outside of one issue that this is probably not the best forum to discuss, the entire Mega long weekend was (in my humble opinion) a success. I didn’t know if a weekday Mega-Event could work, but it has been proven that it can. I ran into people, both new and from previous adventures. I was told something very heartening by a Lackey. I had a good time with friends. And, of course, I grabbed a few caches. Sorry to bury the lede, but GeoLeap 2024 shall forever be enshrined among my milestones as my eight thousandth cache!