Comments: SNOW DAY!! I am iced in, but I'm using this time productively awaiting this eagle couple's first egg of the season. I'll warn you that this website can be habit forming! Bill Akins got me hooked last season when this pair raised triplets. http://www.wvec.com/marketplace/microsite-content/eagle-cam.html
Comments: Funniest site around. Thanks!
Comments: Cynthia, great idea! Maybe the guys at facebook will share how they do that. We need one for John's geo stories. As for dinner at Three Forks, I'll believe that refund when I see it!
Comments: Lynell - where is the like button? I like those stories John. I agree with Bill -likely the best yet. Lynell - what a sandwich after finding your own money? How about a steak at 3 Forks? Surely there was enough for a big spurge.
Comments: Yeah, Bill, I thought the Wedding at the Dreyfuss Club concept was mighty clever. It is up to me to move the geocoin to another cache that is somewhat closer to Germany. Here is what the ying-yang geocoin will look like once it is reunited with its counterpart: ![]()
Comments: JS, that may be one of the better geo-crashing stories you've told yet!
Comments: I found a geocache in the woods this morning that has a link to Dallas. It was located off I-45 back in a woodsy thicket. The container was hanging about 10 ft. off the ground, suspended with some paracord. This type of cache is called a "TravelBug Hotel" and is meant to house certain items in transit to elsewhere. http://people.consolidated.net/swsw/I-45_hotel1.jpg I untied the cord and lowered the cache. I added a TravelBug and a pathtag, and removed a coded Geocoin and a $5 Peso. Later I looked up the code on the Geocoin and learned it had traveled over 7,800 miles, beginning in Brandenburg, Germany. The coin is half of a ying-yang shape and has the mission of someday rejoining the other half back in Germany. It had moved through a series of caches and crossed the Atlantic to end up in a cache outside of Waxahachie. http://people.consolidated.net/swsw/I-45_hotel3.jpg Then it made its way to the east side of White Rock Lake near a site that once housed the Dreyfuss Club (built in 1936 by Sol Dreyfuss). In late 2006 the Dreyfuss Club burned to the ground. At that time the city owned it and rented it out for weddings and parties. The White Rock cache therefore had a "wedding" theme. It was a container the size of a large pickel jar and included a bridal veil and bridal bouquet and a "guest register". The hider of the cache encourages all finders to bring their cameras and pose for a "bridal portrait", then post it online. Here are a couple of fun "portraits" recently posted: http://people.consolidated.net/swsw/dreyfuss1.jpg http://people.consolidated.net/swsw/dreyfuss2.jpg After one of the "ceremonies" the little Geocoin was taken from that cache and transported 194 miles south, then dropped off south of Conroe in that cache hanging in the tree - for me to find. It was a fun morning.
Comments: You got it. We're getting some of our money back!
Comments: Obviously, the Garrett-Smiths are in line for a refund.
Comments: My husband and I spent a few hours with Turbo Tax today. Whoopie! We just E-filed! Time for a cocktail to celebrate, followed by a cold sliced chicken sammy. I love America!
Comments: Back at you Kathleen! Happy Birthday to you AND to Sandra and Wayne!
Comments: Just wanted to wish my follow classmates Sandra Osborne Phillips and Wayne Zablosky a Happy Birthday! We certainly had beautiful weather in which to celebrate our birthdays.
Comments: There is a movement among some college lecturers to ban cell phones in their classrooms, because -- in addition to the obvious danger of cheating on exams -- students allegedly spend the whole period texting/web-surfing, etc., and not listening to the lecture. That might explain the recent study showing that way too many people come out of college knowing no more than they knew when they started!
Comments: You guys took notes in college?
Comments: Um, I think note taking in college has changed to recording or voice typing or waaaaaaaaaaaay sompin else than writing....that was waaaaaaaaaaaay back in the dark ages when I went to college...that writing stuff. Can the kids these days read a conventional clock? Some..NO because of the digital clocks...this technical age is erasing the thought process.
Comments: Lynell, I'm sure my Grandsons would happily fix any of your electronics for free, but you would have to put up with their condescending attitudes, as they regard those of us who aren't computer geniuses as simple-minded Luddites. Regarding not teaching cursive writing, it's already happened. My 15-year-old Grandson was never taught cursive and can only print, although he's pretty good at reading cursive. How will they ever read the Declaration of Independence? Oh, wait, bad example: no one can read that. But, it will slow their note-taking in college, if they're attempting to do it manually. Linus Wright's suggestion probably won't find any traction at DISD; he left under a cloud and has only negative good-will.
Comments: Remember what fun it was to give a funny name to the seating hostess at Kip's? "Schnickelfritz, party of two"? Gosh, was that hilarious.
Comments: Or the Kip's Big Boy after a movie date on Friday night.
Comments: Seems like just yesterday when we were at Red Bryan's or Arthur's after a football game.
Comments: Fess up, John. Did you make Dru give you a boost up to that 6 foot geocache?
Comments: And you got a nifty pic of the world's cleanest Miata key!
Comments: Been a while since I posted a geocaching adventure, so here is a recent one. The GPS coordinates took me to the corner of a parking lot in a little business park in nearby Harper's Landing. When I got there all I could see was a fence, some grass and two telephone poles. http://people.consolidated.net/swsw/hl_biz_pk-a.jpg I searched for 15 minutes but could not find the well hidden cache. I gave up, walked back to my car, turned around to take one last survey of the area and something caught my eye. About 6' ft. up the nearest telephone pole was a nail with a green backing - like someone had nailed a poster there at one time. http://people.consolidated.net/swsw/hl_biz_pk-b.jpg I walked up to the pole and gave the nail a tug. It easily came out. To my surprise, there was the cache! A tiny plastic tube with a rolled up log inside to sign. The fake nailhead and green circle were glued to the cap of the tube. Wickedly clever! http://people.consolidated.net/swsw/hl_biz_pk-c.jpg
Comments: Lynell, All that with one hand and the wrong one at that????? ![]()
Comments: I dropped my Toyota key into a puddle, then got up my nerve and fished it out without HAZMAT gear. It worked fine and I didn't catch anything. John, did Dru add a flavorful sauce and serve the rice? Phyllis, can I rent your grandsons to come over and make this DVD player stop flashing 12:00? I have several electronic projects on hold for them. I saw a news story about how DISD (I think it was) is going to stop teaching cursive writing and use that time to teach computer skills. Former superintendent Linus Wright wants to ditch 12th grade because it costs too much. ahem. He makes me happy I don't live in DISD.
Comments: "UNCOOKED" rice ... now Phyllis tells me. No wonder my keyless remote is on the fritz again.
Comments: I needed a battery for my 2002 Honda car key and the dealership gave me one, I had just had some work done there to the tune of around $200 maintenance. I guess I looked,am,poor.
Comments: My Grandsons, who -- like most teenagers -- are electronic geniuses, claim that you can save almost any hardware that has been immersed in water (of which they have beaucous experience) by taking it apart and burying the parts in a container of uncooked rice, followed by, if necessary, a thorough blow-out with a hair dryer. They have successfully revived more phones than I can count, plus numerous handheld video games (e.g., Nintendo ds). Caveat: don't try this with an iPod Touch; it won't work -- because of the way the battery is mounted -- and you'll end up with even more damage.
Comments: My "YOUNG" wife LaVeta washed my cell phone in her bath robe pocket, lucky I had another and switched the card out,works fine !!
Comments: Barry, We are Lexus people and have a 2009 and a 2011 the keys are still batteries. I did have to go to the dealer, but the battery was not 2K......whoa!!! I think it was $95.
Comments: John: You won the case but didn't buy another key and remote? I guess now you might spend that court money and buy that extra set? For those with newer cars, the keys have a chip in them and there is no replaceable battery. The key is charged when it is used, so don't simply put the extra key in a drawer and forget it. When you need it, it might be dead and not work. We have a BMW 750 in the shop right now with that problem. We are probably going to have to get 2 new keys and an EWS unit and program everything to talk to one another. We're talking over $2K. Bottom line-take care of those keys. |
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