Yesterday, The Boss (not to be confused with my wife, a different kind of boss, and not to be confused with my real boss) and I went geocaching in Kaposi Park in South St. Paul. We managed to find four caches out of the five. This one was our coup. It's called "Tunnel Vision" and somewhere in this p...

I headed out with my friends Patti and Yves for a couple of hours of snowshoeing and geocaching Sunday afternoon. After loading up our GPSs, we met up at P11 in Stoney Swap off Hunt Club near Moodie and set off to find the first of four traditional geocaches, GAG11 – Pale Rider ( GC15VVF ). Pale R...

The last few weeks have been the melange of wintery weather: Pineapple Express, snow, ice, snow, travel to Florida (well, that was okay), and Pineapple Express: The Empire Strikes Back.    In short, terrible for biking.   The lack of recurring, physical outlet has not been good on my physique...

It is hard to believe that I have had this blog since 2002. That is seven years of sharing stuff from the heart. I also can not believe that it is 2009. Time flies when you are having fun and as fast as time is flying by I must be having a huge party. New Years eve was spent at church with friends a...

Another year has come and gone. Was able to get in a little more geocaching this year than in years past. I have found 1901 caches since I started in June of 2002. This year is my record, finding 692 caches. Would have been fun to hit 700, but now I have a goal for next year. It helped that I was ab...

Since we got home from holiday we have … Sunday Spent the day with my family in Oxfordshire, exchanging gifts and generally having fun together Monday Popped into town to exchange a couple of presents (mainly unsuccessfully!), then went over to Steve’s parents for the afternoon. Watched ...

I found my 250th geocache just before Thanksgiving, a milestone that officially elevates this pursuit from being a “hobby” to a “benign obsession.” (It's difficult to explain why someone would hike three miles in 12F, snowy weather looking for a metal box that may or may ...

Yesterday was my 40th birthday. I recommend to anyone who feels like they don't get enough birthday cheer that they sign up for Facebook and make sure their birthday is public knowledge. It was a good day. I skipped out of work to catch the 007 movie Quantum of Solace (I liked the last one better), ...

Ribbit Each exhibitor was set up with a rectangle table covered with the ANSI-standard White Top and Black Shroud (whose purpose is to prevent the table from looking as fugly as it really is).  It didn’t work well with the man-sized pop-up poster I came with, especially in the spot I had righ...

I go through a whole series of emotions when Fall arrives. The first is usually a mild depression when the realization than that summer is over finally sinks in. That usually happens the first day I have to ditch shorts for long pants because it's just too damn cold outside. That's usually followed ...