Soon, this year will be over. As of this writing, I have been caching for 2,391 days and am on Day 2,388 of a streak. This year, I have placed 4 hides, hosted 4 events (with a fifth happening tonight), and found 2,136 caches (including 44 FTFs, 24 new counties, and 1 new state). I also attended … Continue reading This Year Ends →

For those of you who haven't taken a math class in decades, there's this thing called the order of operations. It's the idea that when solving an equation made of multiple terms, you resolve certain things before other things. You do any multiplication or division before addition or subtraction because they are bulk addition (or … Continue reading Order Of Operations →

Traditionally, my daughters do not come to Austin during Thanksgiving because of the peculiarities of their mother's side of the family. Consequently, they come down every Christmas, and we usually end up in some cache-related shenanigans of one kind or another. This year was no different. Unfortunately, because of the schedule of events over their … Continue reading Visitors From Up The Street →

The festival of Saturnalia looms over us once again. In a rare occurrence (twice this century thus far and three times last century), the first night of the Jewish festival happens on the Christian holy day, with the Black celebration following the next day. This means there will be a lot of people lighting candles, … Continue reading Merry Chrismahanukwanzakah! →

Four attempts.Yesterday, it took me four attempts to find a cache.I decided to go down to South Austin to find my daily cache, to a subdivision I hadn't been to for a few years. A lot of building had happened since I had last been in the area, but I was neither surprised nor unaffected. … Continue reading The Discreet Charm Of The Hoi Polloi →

Last night was a gathering. Our host was going to be in the area for something unrelated to geocaching and decided to make an evening out of it. So on a random Thursday in December, make something of it we did. It actually started as a divided affair. One group found seating in one place, … Continue reading Our Gossipy Sewing Circle →

Yesterday, I spent some time sketching travel plans to continue working on my daughter's quest for the Texas County Challenge and Texas Two Step. While she directs which way we go, I'm still in command of the little details such as routing and daily county capacity. If she is the CEO of this project, I … Continue reading My Grandparents’ Fears →

So, a while back, my caching daughter got a friend of hers to go find a couple of caches with her. The friend liked it. She started her own account and logged one of the caches they found together, though not the other, because it turned out to be Premium. I have always maintained that … Continue reading Three Cachers, One Muggle →

The last few days have not found me going far afield from home.  A newer cacher has placed a few new caches in places I’ve long since picked over, which means I’ve been able to get home from work earlier since I haven’t been driving to the edges of the city (or beyond) for my … Continue reading Out With The Old →

I was in the middle of whipping up a small list of caches because [REDACTED].  For this list, I needed to ensure that none of them were Premium caches.  That was no big deal; pulling Premiums off the list is easy enough.  And then I noticed something: among the Premium caches, there was a Virtual … Continue reading Unnecessary Class Conflict →