Comfortably Numb

Mourning the loss of an old friend

2009-01-29T10:12:00.003-05:00

They say that time heals all wounds. Talking about feelings of loss and grief is supposed to make the pain go away. I am here to tell you that they are wrong. I recently lost my Garmin 60csx. I don't know where I lost him. I suppose he might have fallen out of my truck somewhere between Indiana and North Carolina. He was a trooper who never let me down. He deserved so much better then lying on

Another year gone by

2009-01-29T09:49:00.004-05:00

Sometimes I seem to forget about this place. It's hard to keep up with because there is so much else I have to do. My wife and I now have a 6 month old daughter and she takes up most of my free time. I will try and post more though.I have a geocaching trip planned with my dad this summer. We plan on hitting Soth Dakota, Wyoming, and Eastern Montana. I will post the caches we plan on doing

Cherokee, North Carolina

2008-01-22T12:45:00.000-05:00

Over the weekend of January 12th, my wife and I spent 3 days in Cherokee, North Carolina. She hit the casino while I spent the weekend fly-fishing and geocaching. Saturday, I spent most of the day on the water and it was cold. I had on waders, but the water temperature was such that it went right through the waders. Now, I was not wet, it was just cold. I ended up catching around 30 trout that

Geocaching January 7th & 8th

2008-01-08T15:42:00.000-05:00

With unseasonably warm temperatures here in North Carolina, it has made for some rather sweaty geocaching the last few days. I enjoy colder weather because I can wear jeans and a big carhartt jacket. Wearing those clothes gives me most of the protection I need to go barreling through the woods and thorns and briars without much repercussion. However, for some reason I felt the need to wear shorts

Geocache Movie

2008-01-06T11:57:00.000-05:00

So as I mentioned in the previous post, I made a small geocache movie. It's of me doing geocache Wasted Water Treatment?/GC18215Again, for those of you who see this who may be in the area who have not done this one yet, once the warning graphic comes up, you will want to skip ahead about a minute or so.Anyway, enjoy.

Geocaching-January 5th & 6th

2008-01-06T11:50:00.000-05:00

So I finally had some time to get out there and do a few. It is remarkable how much things change with perspective. With my explorist 100, all the geocaches I would do seemed like an uphill battle from the beginning. Trying to get a signal with the accuracy usually being no better then 30 feet. Then walking and holding not only the gpsr but also the sheet of paper with the hint and cords all at

Geocaching and the Holidays..

2007-12-23T11:19:00.000-05:00

So it has been a few days since I last posted. It has been really busy at work and I just don’t have a lot of free time. Anyway, I think I convinced my wife, who happens to be 2.5 months pregnant, that upgrading my GPS is a good thing. Amazon.com has a sale on right now for a Garmin GPSMap 60CSx. Normal price for one of those babies is around 530 dollars. Right now, I can get it for around 280

Geocaching Today 12-17-07

2007-12-17T12:43:00.000-05:00

I just got back from doing two geocaches. Both geocaches are located in Kelly Road Park near Apex, in North Carolina. The first one I did was Did The Beaver Do It?. It was in a wooded area near a tennis court. I guess that would explain the 14 or so tennis balls in various states of decay that I saw as I made my way to the cache. The clue in the cache was the same name as the cache so that

Days gone by..

2007-12-11T12:49:00.000-05:00

The photos above and below are of my Catholic grade school in South Bend, Indiana. My wife and I drove by last summer because I wanted to see some of my old haunts as it were. It was strange because although the building looks the same, the surrounding area does not. Some of the streets are no longer there. Some of the surrounding buildings are no more as well. When I look back at my time in

Today is a good day

2007-12-11T12:18:00.000-05:00

My day off each week for the past two years has always been Wednesday. It was ok, a nice break in the middle of the week. However, today I was told that I would need to change my day off to a different day. My options were Monday and Thursday. Well with those choices, the answer was obvious, Monday. Now with me having Mondays off, I get a 3 day weekend every other week.I used to dread Sunday

Geocaching Today

2007-12-10T18:28:00.000-05:00

So I went geocaching today. I looked for two but only found one. That’s about how it goes for me. That’s ok, it's not about the finds so much as the journey.It was unseasonably warm today as well and that made for a sweaty trek through the woods today. Where is winter?

Working on another geocache hide

2007-12-09T22:35:00.000-05:00

For the last month or so, I have been in the process of putting together a regular sized geocache to hide along the American tobacco Trail. I already have two hidden on the trail but for my next one im going to make it a themed cache. What sort of theme? Well since the ATT is a rail trail, I think a railroad themed cache is highly appropriate. As of right now, I am researching the history of the

Upcoming Blogs

2007-12-09T10:50:00.000-05:00

My next few blog entries will be dealing with things that I have just not had the time to get around to talking about, like for example, my vacation over the summer. I am going to be posting many pictures and giving explanations as to why the photos I took are significant to me. I am mostly just doing it for my own benefit, as I have no illusions that there are very many people reading this blog.

Looking forward to Monday

2007-12-08T21:40:00.000-05:00

Why you ask? I have the day off and I am going geocaching, that’s why. Now, if I can only find three or four decent ones that I don’t have to drive 20 miles to find. I’m not sure how reasonable that is anymore though, as I seem to be running out of ammo cans in the woods caches in my pocket queries. On a rather sad note, my digital camera died. It was a peaceful death. The lens fluttered and then

Indiana Rail Trails

2007-12-05T14:36:00.000-05:00

State purchase to greatly expand rail-trail pathsIndiana will nearly double the size of its network of rail-trail corridors with the purchase of more than 150 miles of abandoned rail line, the Indiana Department of Natural Resources said Tuesday.I think it's somewhat ironic I guess that Indiana is more interested in creating trails rather then salvaging or expanding the states rail infrastructure

No geocaching today

2007-12-05T14:25:00.000-05:00

I have not gone in a while. I just do not have the sensation anymore as if I need to get out there and go. I think part of it is just the fact that I am tired of living in North Carolina and want to go elsewhere and geocache there. North Carolina to me is uninteresting. I've gotten to the point in my geocaching where I have to go at least 8-9 miles one way just to find the types of geocaches I'm

Foggy Day In Durham

2007-11-26T18:47:00.001-05:00

It was a rainy foggy day in Durham today. I took the afternoon off from work with the thought in mind that I might go geocaching. I had three lined up and ready to go, however, with the weather being as crappy as it was I just did not feel like going. I really dislike the city of Durham. It is a dirty, run down, crime and gang infested shitball of a city. Do not ever move here if you can avoid it

Geocaching-Not just about finding something

2007-11-21T12:07:00.000-05:00

Geocaching to me is much more then just going somewhere and finding something that somebody else has hidden. Sure, that is the nuts and bolts of it, but to me it encompasses much more then that. I love seeing natures artwork, rocky landscapes, leaves covering a trail, a quiet stream meandering nowhere particular. I geocache because I want to experience these things as much as finding the cache

Geocaching-November 18

2007-11-19T12:49:00.000-05:00

Geocache: Duck Duck GooseA boring sunday, not much in the way of of football to be seen so I thought why not get out and do a few geocaches? Well, I only did one. It wasn't too difficult. The most challenging thing about it was walking on the jagged rocks. I almost turned my ankle over at least twice. It was a nice quiet location, my kind of place.

Austin Starr game winning field goal against Purdue!

2007-11-18T13:25:00.000-05:00

Starr will never have to buy his own meal in Bloomington ever again!Chills every time I see this!

2007-11-17T22:16:00.000-05:00

That Was For Coach Hep!The Indiana Hoosiers today picked up their seventh win of the season by defeating their biggest rival Purdue 27-24 in what was a very exciting game. Coach Hoeppner is proud of you today boys! Wherever he is, he is smiling down on you tonight knowing that you’re going to play 13 for him! When Coach Hep died earlier this year before the season started, no one gave this team a

Henry the geodog!

2007-11-16T21:07:00.000-05:00

Here is Henry, my geocaching partner, in action. I think he saw a squirrel running by a tree and decided to go investigate.

Fall on the American Tobacco Trail

2007-11-16T12:10:00.000-05:00

I went geocaching last Wednesday and brought the camera along. It was unseasonably warm and made for some sweaty caching. Went for three but only managed to find one. That's about my average. I really enjoy the American Tobacco Trail all times of the year, but fall with the leaves changing colors make for spectacular views.

Geocaching 11-12-07

2007-11-13T12:04:00.000-05:00

I am a geocacher. If you don't know what geocaching is you can visit this link Geocaching.com and learn all about it. The long and short of it is, it requires using billion dollar satellites in order to find ammo cans, tupperware containers, as well as other containers ranging from 5 gallon buckets to 35mm film canisters hidden in the woods, urban city locations, and various other locations

Wow, I haven't been on here in a long time!

2007-11-11T14:03:00.000-05:00

I'm not sure this blog is even worth continuing but for the sake of creativity and the logic that I like to think that somebody out there may get a laugh or two at my expenditure with the nonsense I post, I shall endeavor to persevere!