So I was in L-Town visiting the Girls. I remembered from before that one of my Jasmer holes was in nearby Tyler and I decided to drag them out to go grab it. That didn't happen, though. It's hard to engage a plan when other people are involved when they don't know there's a plan … Continue reading Something I Did →

Yesterday, I went out and got another challenge because, as much as I dislike gnomes, I dislike unfinished spaces in digital collections more, probably because my brain is cracked in just a certain way. I traditionally collect challenges so that I've got something to log on a bad day. Consequently, I've got a healthy number … Continue reading All The Things I Haven’t Done →

My comically antagonistic relationship with gnomes was originally spurred by interactions regarding them from a video game a thousand years ago. It is known of among my oldest friends but not so much by the newer caching friends I have made. Yes, I had a life before geocaching came along, one dotted with things just … Continue reading Gnomish Hegemony →

This was a weekend of peopling for me. Saturday was the second annual TXGA CITO Across Texas. A number of CITOs happened all across the state at the same time so that we were all relieving the burdens of Mother Earth together in spirit or something like that. I don't know entirely how many there … Continue reading C.A.T. Dos And Other Things →

I parked on a neighborhood street by a neighborhood park to go get my daily cache. I bypassed another cache on the way because I saw in the last finder's log that it involved a hundred-foot bushwhack to get to it and didn't feel like getting that into things. I chose poorly.After a walk along … Continue reading The Thorn Birds →

Don’t tell anyone, but Monday was my birthday.  I don’t usually do anything special for it; I don’t consider it anything more than another day for most purposes. Under normal circumstances, I would have just gone to work.  But when I got a call from Razorbackgirl asking if I wanted to go grab some caches, … Continue reading Down Where The Tex Meets The Mex →

The Girls came down to visit from L-Town as they are wont to do. And, of course we had to go out and find caches. A couple of days ago, we decided to stop on the way to dinner to find one in a small island park on the edge of a wealthy part of … Continue reading My Grasp Exceeds Its Reach →

I'm about to touch on a subject I usually avoid, not only because it's unseemly to discuss in public under most circumstances, but also because ... well, you'll see. I don't tend to discuss my politics. I'm sure that a lot of people who have read my previous writings can suss out my general position … Continue reading Veneer →

A couple of days ago, I went out to get a cache. This is not an earth-shattering revelation. I wasn't feeling all that great so I wanted to find the easiest one I could find that involved the least effort. That's hard these days because I've gotten pretty much all the LPCs and park & … Continue reading My Proverbial Backyard →

The goal for my weekend was to get out of the city onto some back roads somewhere to just grab a bunch of caches and enjoy some solitude. Unfortunately, that was not to be. The Austin area had much needed rain over the weekend, far-reaching enough that no small drive would be enough to get … Continue reading It Had To Do →