Geocaching While Black

Entropy Sounds Ominous True to my word, Saturday I ran up to Temple to go grab a few caches. I had originally intended to get up early and make a day of it, but early mornings are not always my jams at the best of times,…

Entropy Sounds Ominous

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Just When You Least Expect It Yesterday, I went for my daily cache and one of the little gnomish freaks snuck up on me! Grrr!!! You have to remain ever vigilant lest they ruin you and all you love! Besides, I can only shake my …

Just When You Least Expect It

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The Postal Service No, I’m not talking about the band. I’m talking about International Postcard Day! And, of course, a dozen of us celebrated it down here with an Event! To be entirely honest, I’m n…

The Postal Service

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Something I Did So I was in L-Town visiting the Girls. I remembered from before that one of my Jasmer holes was in nearby Tyler and I decided to drag them out to go grab it. That didn’t happen, though. It&#8…

Something I Did

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All The Things I Haven’t Done Yesterday, I went out and got another challenge because, as much as I dislike gnomes, I dislike unfinished spaces in digital collections more, probably because my brain is cracked in just a certain…

All The Things I Haven't Done

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Gnomish Hegemony 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 mu…

Gnomish Hegemony

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C.A.T. Dos And Other Things 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 burd…

C.A.T. Dos And Other Things

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The Thorn Birds 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 b…

The Thorn Birds

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Down Where The Tex Meets The Mex 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…

Down Where The Tex Meets The Mex

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My Grasp Exceeds Its Reach

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Veneer 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&#82…

Veneer

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My Proverbial Backyard 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…

My Proverbial Backyard

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It Had To Do 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…

It Had To Do

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I Need What I’ve Been Missing 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 us…

I Need What I've Been Missing

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Working Hard? Hardly Working! 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 (thoug…

Working Hard? Hardly Working!

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Missed It By That Much! Saturday afternoon, the Girls and I were doing our thing around the house (in this case, a whole lot of nothing) when I just happened to check my emails as I am wont to do from time to time. I noti…

Missed It By That Much!

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A Different Kind Of Graveyard Wednesday night I attended an event at an outdoor brewhouse/restaurant. Our host was none other than FTFGuy, publisher of FTF Magazine. A good time was had by all. We introduced one of the employee…

A Different Kind Of Graveyard

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Behold My Shortcomings Monday was another Event that I couldn’t miss. It was held at a restaurant that the Girls and I have frequented on many occasions (we like onigiri, OK?) and it was right on the way between wo…

Behold My Shortcomings

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A Seventh Year Gone By Yesterday was the seventh anniversary of this site. It never ceases to amaze me that anyone would read anything that I wrote, much less having the knowledge that some of you have been doing it for …

A Seventh Year Gone By

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The Second Best Happening Yesterday morning, the Girls, visiting from L-Town, and I went out to grab a cache. Since my car is still in the shop, we were going to have a bus-based adventure, but I wimped out and decided to u…

The Second Best Happening

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How Do I Get One? It’s rare these days I find myself in truly urban forest.  I have a tendency to stick to park lands when I “rough it” lately, mostly because I’m getting farther and farther out for my daily caches …

How Do I Get One?

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The Ants Go Marching No, I haven’t been to a Spanish Geotour that started and ended a year into my geocaching career. You see, many years ago when I lost a car, I was bus bound and did a lot of caching in town. S…

The Ants Go Marching

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People May Make Plans From a non-caching perspective, my weekend was absolutely lovely. From a caching perspective though, it was 50% failure. I was going to make a trip on Saturday morning out of town to somewhere wher…

People May Make Plans

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Meanwhile… It doesn’t take a mathematician to calculate it’s been over a month since I returned from Colorado. The downside of going there instead of some of my other options was that the terrain …

Meanwhile...

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Lessons So, what did I bring back from Colorado?  Well, I don’t know if you picked up on this subtle throughline that I wove into the narrative, but I hate mountain passes.  They are the most difficult typ…

Lessons

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880. Leadville, Lake County (CO64) The front of the courthouse was partially obscured, but that I cannot blame on the trees. There was some kind of event there, so they put up a canopy for it. Not the first time I’ve run into a cour…

880. Leadville, Lake County (CO64)

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879. Aspen, Pitkin County (CO63) The drive into Aspen was not at all what I expected.  It was all a wide main road, highway-like even, until I hit the town and then the courthouse.  And look at the gorgeous beast of a courthouse i…

879. Aspen, Pitkin County (CO63)

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878. Eagle, Eagle County (CO62) I know it’s hard to tell that the county associates itself with eagles, so the giant eagle over the doorway of the courthouse was a helpful, much needed clue. It actually wasn’t a courthouse, it wa…

878. Eagle, Eagle County (CO62)

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877. Glenwood Springs, Garfield County (CO61) I was almost a little amazed that I even found the courthouse in Glenwood Springs.  There were so many options to choose from: a county administration building, the clerk’s office, another combined…

877. Glenwood Springs, Garfield County (CO61)

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876. Meeker, Rio Blanco County (CO60) Future Arborists of America, attend!  This is another perfect example of the front of a courthouse being ruined by ill-placed trees!  Getting a closer look at the entranceway, I feel the …

876. Meeker, Rio Blanco County (CO60)

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