A couple of days ago, I went and grabbed a cache at the Elisabet Ney Museum. You should make a visit there sometime if you like sculpture or architecture. The find was a bit bittersweet because I had planned to place a cache there myself. I had been in talks with the Austin Parks and … Continue reading Fight Muggles With Muggles! →

On Monday, I wrote an entry about a socioeconomic trend I've seen in Austin regarding cache placement. I had brought it up years before, and thought it might be interesting and a little bit thought-provoking, a way of looking at it from an unexamined point of view. After it published, I realized that it had … Continue reading I Have The Memory Of A Gadfly →

This is not a new subject. I've broached it before, but I found myself commenting about it to someone, and after a short search through the archives, realized that I haven't written about it in a while. I qualify this by noting that I can only speak for the city of Austin, and if anyone … Continue reading Rich Cache, Poor Cache →

Unlike Ms. Badu, however, it is not because I eat a lot of vegetables. It's because I am jaded.Earlier this week, I went out and found a cache that was very cleverly made, and clearly worthy of a favorite point. I didn't give it one, though. Why not? I first broached the question several months … Continue reading My Eyes Are Green →

I have, from time to time, made mention of my dislike of the sun god Apollo. I have often felt that his spear focuses unduly on me in many inconvenient ways, usually in some sort of heat or light fashion, often in both. While he has recently aggravated my dislike of him, he is the … Continue reading Darn You All To Heck, Apollo! →

You have no idea how much I wanted to break into a parody version of an R.E.M. song. As musical as I can be, I shall leave that to the professionals, or at least the more talented amateurs. The important bit is that several new caches dropped about a mile from my home a couple … Continue reading Night Caching →

...but, if Mr. Clemens is to be believed (assuming he even said it at all), it rhymes. I got myself an FTF a couple of days ago. Normally, this wouldn't be noteworthy, but this was the second time I had gotten an FTF here. I grabbed another FTF at the beginning of the pandemic in … Continue reading The Past Does Not Repeat Itself… →

This was not the cache I originally intended to get.  I left work to grab my daily cache before going home and noticed one I thought I had gotten previously.  A closer look revealed that there was a nearby cache on the same trail that I had found before, but not this one.  That’s good … Continue reading Not Every Cache →

Austin has been cold for the last few weeks—cold enough that I've returned to cardigans and my favorite wool coat. It has been delightful after the summer we've had. Today, however, it was warm. It got up into the low seventies with cool breezes. While I had the occasional chill outside, it was T-shirt weather. … Continue reading The Sun-Kissed Earth →

Let’s eat turkey in a big brown shoe! I’m sure that those of you who are not in the United States are vaguely aware that Thanksgiving is upon us! No matter where you stand on the question of the holiday’s roots­­—a touching feast of cooperation or harbinger of the twilight of Native Americans—it has become … Continue reading Turkey For Me, Turkey For You →