The festival of Saturnalia looms over us once again, both promising to take us all into its all-compassionate embrace and threatening to consume us in its gaping maw. Or maybe something in between. I don't know you or your relationship to the season. What I do know is that no matter what you celebrate at … Continue reading Merry Chrismahanukwanzakah! →

You may not know this about me (#228), seeing as I tend to be very tight-lipped about it, but many moons ago, I completed a little something called the Texas County Challenge.  It’s a relatively obscure achievement, but I and the other finishers take a certain amount of muted pride in the accomplishment.  Imagine my … Continue reading One Of Us!  One Of Us! →

I had some time to kill over the weekend and was thinking about my cache for the day. A lot of new caches had been dropping around my home in the last couple of weeks, so I was on the lookout for unfamiliar ones when I noticed one I hadn't seen before. It was a … Continue reading Unfamiliar Stacks →

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… →