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 →

Last year, I helped a friend of mine place some caches as part of a service project. I offered to help her maintain them because they’re out of town but in places I frequently pass through. Unfortunately, I do not monitor them directly. Yesterday, I learned that two of them had been archived, and one … Continue reading I Am The Reason →

Yesterday, I went up to Round Rock to grab a cache (he said as if anyone not from the Austin or Georgetown areas knows where that is). I grabbed a Multi in a caching buddy's series I've mentioned before, devoted to fictional Texas counties. As always, the redirector is a telephone pole with numbers to … Continue reading The Surveillance State →

Yesterday, I picked up a challenge I thought I needed to help me complete a different challenge. I was wrong, but none of that really matters. Right now, I’m swimming in challenges after the activities of the weekend. They will all, of course, be claimed in due time. Normally, when I log a challenge, I … Continue reading Trust But Verify →