Soon this year will be over. As of this writing, I have been caching for 1,662 days, and I am on Day 1,659 of a streak. This year I have made six hides; hosted five events; and found 1170 caches (including 353 FTFs [mostly resulting from group attack of a new Geoart in the area]), … Continue reading This Year Ends →

It is not unknown for me to procrastinate.  In fact, I am currently the sitting High Priest of Procrastination (I used to be King, but a friend of mine toppled me from my throne [it took him ten days to get around to it, though]).  Consequently, I had put off GC8NEAT for a very long … Continue reading Under The Wire →

The end of the year tends to be chock-full of events. The holidays bring out the urge to gather, and after two or three years of separation, people totally want to see one another. Add that, with Community Celebrations expiring at the end of 2022, everyone wants to use them before they lose them. Consequently, … Continue reading The Most Metal Event Ever! →

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 →