I have received a lot of comments on the little monkey clone so I thought it might be nice for you to see how he spends his days. Notice that at no time does he “jump on the bed” he knows that song well and doesn’t like pain.
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Archive for February, 2010
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Hmm… so what was Cecil really doing?
For those who are not geocachers… consider getting a handheld GPS and trying it out. It is a lot of fun (until you get so wrapped up in it you have to go for every challenge and you then suck the enjoyment out of the activity- then again that’s my opinion.) Check out the geocaching links on this site for more information. With now close to 1,000,000 caches worldwide there is bound to be one near you. Some quick voacbulary-
FTF: First To Find, the cacher who is the first to sign a log. It is an honor to be FTF- Cecil has done it 3 times. Sue has lost count- (see FTF Hound)
FTF Hound: A person obsessed with getting FTF. These are the folks who have electrodes hooked up to their cell phone so when a cache is published they immediately are shocked and head out. “Just threw the kids in the car (at 3:00 AM) and grabbed this one.” Every region has their pack of FTF hounds, some are nicer than others. Good doggy…
LPC: Lamp Post Cache, bet you never realized that the metal skirt on a lamp post is removable. This cache, hated by some (OK most), is remarkably clever the first time you encounter it- the 400th time- not so much
Phone-A-Friend: This is a series around here (and probably across the country) where a cache is hidden at the location of a pay phone (or where a pay phone once was). These are typically (like the LPC) easier finds although some can be more challenging.
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At least there weren’t any spiders.
It’s February and we’ve got snow! Admittedly it is a few degrees warmer than it has been, but there’s still plenty of time to knit things to help us stay warm.
Bruce got his mittens a couple of weeks ago and I finally finished my “Hedgerow” socks today. I am very pleased with how they came out. There was one potential crisis yesterday – with just 17 rows to go (in the section where I was shaping the toe) I ran out of yarn! Help!
Here’s how close to being done I was when I ran out:
Now what? Went to the closet to see what I had that was the same weight of yarn and might not clash too badly and found another ball of the exact same yarn! I had bought it quite a while ago and totally forgot that I had bought two balls! Saved!
So, I was able to finish these off without further incident:
I look forward to trying them out in the next few days. But, what to do next? On the keeping warm front, my office is on the notoriously cold side of the building (which just so happens to be the notoriously warm side in the summer) so I’ve taken to wearing fingerless mitts while working at my computer. The only pair I have is actually one of my first knitting attempts – a pair of reddish brown “Fingerless Garter Mitts” from the book One Skein by Leigh Radford. I feel a bit like Bob Crachett whenever I put them on – just give me a green eyeshade and I’m ready to go!
Apparently, it’s time to upgrade to something a bit more elegant.
I bought some black fingering weight alpaca off the clearance rack at Stitches & Scones a couple of months ago thinking I’d use it to make a wrap or shawl but it’s perfect for the pattern I’ve selected – Alexandra Brinck’s “Linda K’s Yummy Mummy Wristwarmers.” I’m 6 rows in and, so far, so good!
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I had to do it… you know I did. With the Winter Olympics going on I had to have at least one strip dealing with the games. I find the Olympics a lot of fun to watch, but sometimes wish the commentary could be turned off. Just like pressing the SAP button to change the language to Spanish, there should be a button where you get no commentary or a scrolling commentary below of the high points. I find this especially annoying in Figure Skating where besides the technical aspects of the sport, you have an artist element… keyed to music. Music we at home cannot hear over the announcers going on (and on) about the tragedy that the skater overcame when they lost their dog at age 5.
For my students this comic was one I really had to edit… Editing is that thing I try to get you to do in your writing to make it better. I started off with this large idea with a lot of commentary and then realized that I would need more panels than I had last week to get it all in. So I left out the joke about “Bruce has really been working on his technique- He even had a driveway built at his home so he could practice” (ala Shaun White’s halfpipe) along with some other gags… about growing up in California and not taking up the sport until late in life. The whole “Up Close & Personal” piece. There is so much the network hosting the Olympics has to do to fill time. It may have hurt the strip, but sometimes you need to try to keep it simple and you only have so much room.
I do have a hat like that (Sue knit it for me) but it is red.
So… what do you do when you are trying for 100 consecutive days of of geocaching and you have a lot of the local caches? You expand your range… but it would be nice to let your husband know before you leave the country. He might want to join you.
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Yes… As I have said before Sue is working on a challenge. This one is 100 consecutive days of caching. Today is day 77 or something like that. It has been interesting since she has found the majority of caches that are close to home and since the weather is… well it IS winter. Here is hoping that she does complete this challenge so that caching can go back to being fun… until the next challenge is posted.
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To all of those geocachers out where it is cold I do feel sorry for you (unless you enjoy cold weather caching). Especially for those people who are dealing with a lot more snow than they ever expected. The weather in any situation changes the game.
This weekend I was in Northern Indiana and was reminded of some of the issues with winter caching. I was attending a “Sketcher’s Weekend” and did have a lot of fun, but when it came to caching… The motel hosting the event was about 250 feet away from a cache. So before everyone gathered I ran out and found it. Not too bad although any muggle could now follow my footprints right to ground zero. But snow does change the game in other ways. Some caches that are really hard to get to most of the time can be easy once the pond has frozen over… unfortunately in most cases all the typical hints are obscured in the snow.
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One of those crazy Facebook moments when someone posts a “CHANGE YOUR PROFILE PIC” messages. This one was dealing with Valentine’s Day so instead of finding a good picture of Sue and me (they exist I just tend to to take the pictures & Sue tends to avoid being in them) I decided to do this instead. You could almost call it a “Family Portrait.” For people in the know I have submitted the artwork so it will be made into a pathtag. I just thought for those folks who hadn’t seen this I would share… I’ll get home late tonight after a modified comic drawing retreat/artfest in Northern Indiana (thank you once again Lilly Endowment).
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