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 →

A couple of days ago, I picked up the first little library cache I've seen in a long time. It's not that they're especially rare or anything. It's just that they're usually pretty simple and I've picked up pretty much all the low hanging fruit around here. Ironically, there's a series here of pole hides … Continue reading I Need What I’ve Been Missing →

The Girls were still here for Labor Day so we decided to go for a little drive south to nearby Buda. Just as Pflugerville has effectively become north Austin, Buda is the southern equivalent (though an argument can be made for that being Kyle, but that's neither here nor there). We decided to go after … Continue reading Working Hard? Hardly Working! →