Yesterday, G&V hadn't logged their caches and it was still 1700+ in late August, today they and we have logged, and it's 1625 August 21.

We did, yes, go caching yesterday after church. We were at the first stage of an offset cache looking around for a "cannon" for a "green thing" to be behind, when up came one of the original geocachers, the guy who was in the lead forever, the one who says "it's not a competition" and his wife. They had the printout with more information which was put on last night after the cache-placer just escaped with his life from the irate hunters at the picnic. Rich decided the smokestack was the "cannon" and the "green thing" was the environmental services building downtown, 2 miles away. We all drove there, and Mikie picked the cache up. Truly a team effort!

They then went to maintain another cache and we went on to see if we could find some other stuff. The first stage of one complex multi-puzzle cache that people love is a phone number... we took all phone numbers but none of them work as a password. I give up. This woman's coordinates suck and now I can't even get the password? I just wish there was a way to reject this cache so it wouldn't keep appearing on our front page.

Then we walked to the Amtrak station, which is the "world's second largest travel bug" since it's going to be moved a few hundred feet north next year. We found the bug and virtually took it. (My, that's heavy!)

On into Old Sacramento we went, to look for the other multi with a the same theme as the first of the day. We found the first stage, under a sign, and walked to the second place. We looked and looked, next to some scary razor wire, and finally I glanced up and noticed a bicycle going over the bridge over our head. Let's look up there! Well, as we got close to the coordinates I could see white things on a shed near where we were looking before. They were numbers... wait, one is "121". Those are coordinates! And in a nice touch, the west ones were on the west side, the north ones on the north. Very nice. The third stage is in West Sacramento along the Riverwalk. There were people in the park, but they were pretty far away... our GPSr couldn't decide if the cache was in a tree or on the ramp for the RiverOtter Taxi. We finally gave up and came home for lunch.

I heard from the cache-placer (I misspelt "bollixed") and he gave me the info that the cache is on the ramp. Later he added a hint, but didn't give me enough warning to avoid the spoiler, so today we knew what we were looking for.

After bowling today, we went back to Old Sacramento and found the third stage, a film canister in a pipe with a stick to push it out. The coordinates in it were for the fourth stage and HAL told us it was nearby... wait, they're the SAME coordinates! Sure enough, the fourth stage was camouflaged and stuck on a pipe. If one finds that first, it's stage three!

On to the Towe Car Museum, where we found another first stage in a pipe, then the second stage near a feral cat colony. Then we found a "Trinket" cache in a can in an alley and left the Pterodactyl travel bug that wants to go to caches that start with "t."

Finally, we went to the travel bug cache, which has been moved from the neighborhood "forest" to the other side of the freeway, a much better location. That gets us to 1225 caches.

Bowling was TERRIBLE. We didn't have an opposing team so had to bowl within 40 pins of our average to win, and we darn near lost the first game, thanks to moi. I had a 95, 147, 128 and lost two pins off my average. Blech.

There was an e-mail from Ofoto. How long has that been? I did put up another album, with Eric pictures.

So Paul Johnson, the man kidnapped in Saudi Arabia, will be treated like Abu Ghraib? I should think he'd be relieved... he'd keep his head, not get beaten, etc. Unless, of course, the kidnappers mean Abu Ghraib under Saddam, in which case he should be panicked.

Heh. Anyone else is now second-choice.

Heh again.

Oh, THAT liberal media.

Reagan cartoons.

The Los Angeles Puppy Trainer. Meanwhile, here's the Sacramento Union!!

News from Fallujah. Lord, I hope he's right. Currently, it's looking like a huge mistake.

Lileks. I know something else that happened in 1947 (Gerhard was born.) Oh, and be sure to check out the "Bleatz" ad at the side.

Tear down this UN Stonewall... Safire.

Vocabulary test. (I got 177.)

Is it Reagan or W.?

Great idea.

ObGoe.

Bush had the Clintons at the White House. Laura better count the silverware! At least, as Rush said, this time they stayed awake. Scott Ott has the original speech.

Also, on Flag Day, the Supreme Court said Newdow had no standing to sue about "under God." That's exactly what our friend-the-judge said. He's vindicated. I saw him on the television-- he's not one of Newdow's faves. That man has a serious ego problem. This guy says:

How does the Pledge cause a concrete injury to his interest in exposing his daughter to his views? He is still able to express his views. He is injured by the fact that she hears other views?