Monday was another Event that I couldn’t miss. It was held at a restaurant that the Girls and I have frequented on many occasions (we like onigiri, OK?) and it was right on the way between work and home, which has been useful since vehicle has been at the mechanic. I’m very much looking forward to getting it back tomorrow from a caching perspective. I already miss being about to just shoot out somewhere for a cache at a moment’s notice. There have been a few decent possibilities for FTFs that I’ve had to pass up because I realistically can’t justify paying for a rideshare for something that unimportant. I’ve wanted to get somewhere more remote to cache for the last month, but vehicular issues have kept cropping up. Hopefully, that will be a thing of the past for a little while. If I keep having issues, how will I possibly be able to go somewhere at Thanksgiving (he said hopefully)?
I feel like I haven’t been pulling my weight when it comes to Events lately. There’s a natural lull during summer because, well, Texas summers, but it seems like there has been a dearth of Events in the area this year. True, the last one I hosted was only a couple of months ago, but I’ve only hosted two this year, and one of those was a New Year’s Day thing. A couple that I had planned to do just never ended up happening because of life, but I can do a little better than one every six months. I’ve been wondering if maybe I should try to start doing a monthly Event to help fill in the calendar.
I haven’t been pulling my weight in maintenance, either. A couple of days ago, I got a notification that someone wasn’t able to find one of my caches. When I checked, they were the third person in a row to DNF it. I get why I didn’t check. When someone with no finds says it’s missing, I pay it no heed. When someone with ten finds says it’s missing, question their opinion. When someone with fifteen thousand finds says it’s missing, there might be something to it. It’s not even that far away. I could take a good walk to go check it out, but I’ve been lazy and focused on other things. I know it’s hard to believe, but I have not entirely embodied the spirit of a responsible and community oriented cacher as of late. I don’t punish myself too hard for that, though. Like everyone, I have my good days and bad days. In this case, though, it’s been more like good months and bad months. It’ll all be better soon enough. At least, it better be!
Geocaching While Black 