Tag: Lair

So this arc ends where it began… I actually did come up with this while hiking in Joyce Kilmer National Forest outside of Robbinsville, NC.  A beautiful place, if you go you might consider staying at Blue Waters Mountain Lodge, tell them the monkey sent you, and make sure to save some scones for me.

A new vacation lair for Cecil?
Yes, as the time runs down on this season of Dr. Who we still don’t know who has won the Where’s the TARDIS contest.  BBC America has been posting the runner’s up each day this week so as of Thursday (Second Runner-up) the Dr. Who Cache series was still in the running.  I’m just glad I have low self esteem (thank you Mom & Dad) so I really don’t expect to win- it was a hoot making all the cache containers and learning more about the history Dr. Who (although I am nowhere near an expert). As for Cecil’s lament – have you ever noticed that when staying at a hotel they tend to never have the channel that has the show you want to watch.  Home shopping? Sure, at least 4 different networks.  Discovery, TLC, and ESPN are standard.  BBC America? not so much.  Before I finally invested in something other than bunny ears Sue and I used to get caught up on the TV shows everyone was talking about by going away for the weekend… (This was back when there was only one CSI and it was on Fridays) Now we watch channels that hotels don’t tend to carry & therefore either DVR stuff, or stay home. I hope everyone has a good weekend.
It looks like Cecil is getting to the end of his patience when it comes to looking for a new lair… I hope he finds something soon- I’m having trouble coming up other places for him to look at!
Just don’t tell Cecil about the chameleon circuit… who knows he might actually fix it.
Sorry for missing Wednesday… this is the last week of school and I was a little busy getting the last of the things I needed for school done… and then there were meetings that will be occuring randomly during the summer, along with the fires that needed to be fought (your child got the grades they did because they didn’t do any work the last 9-weeks of school).  Not a good excuse, but the truth- My summer vacation starts once I get my classroom cleaned out & I find out what grade I’m teaching next year, so I can start planning- so hopefully sometime next week. I hope you are enjoying Cecil’s little lair hunting he only has a few more places to check out before deciding where he’ll end up.  Then again, maybe I’ll be like DC Comics and restart the entire comic in September!  New creative team, and renumbering… so read these while you can because pretty soon they won’t be part of the continuity! Actually DC does have courage to try that (Marvel has done it a couple of times and always ends up going back to the old numbers).  I remember (gather around children- old guy about to talk about the “good old days”) when the original Crisis on Infinite Earths finished and they rebooted every title… kind of.  It looks like after almost 25 years they are actually going to do what a bunch of people hoped they would… then again all it takes is another “infinite secret civil war crisis at zero hour” to bring it all back.  18 months… that my guess. Sadly, the other news from DC (which means Marvel will follow suit) is that they will be releasing both print and digital editions of their comics on the same day and at the same price.  You’re saying “Wait?  Bruce is a geek and love technology!  Why would he be against such a move?”  Two words “Comic Shop.”  While I will still visit my local shop (Hi Dan!  Hi Tim!  Hi Terry!) because I know that to learn about new stuff, the place to go is a comic shop, many people won’t and those fantastic small independent titles might never get discovered or read, because DC & Marvel will have you using their app (there’s an app for that) and the independent won’t get the readership they deserve because they aren’t hooked up to a big publisher.  I’m now reading more and more independent stuff because it is good and because one time I went in to my local comic shop and said “Hey!  any suggestions?”  WARNING: that can be a costly question. Off that soapbox and onto another… If you knew the world was ending in September (and someone was going to hit the “Reset button” would you really care about the the comics being produced now?  SO someone explain to me why I should read DC Comics from now until September (except that I have already preordered the titles I usually read and paid for them).
For geocachers sometimes icons are worth their weight in gold… kind of like “badges” in Foursquare.  For those readers who are not aware of geocaching (using million dollar satellites to find Tupperware in the woods) let me just say that each type of geocache has a specific icon related to it.  Some are more difficult to get- one of those is the GPS Adventure Maze, basically because it is an exhibit that travels the country spreading the gospel of geocaching.  As a traveling exhibit sometimes it is hard to track down.  It started off in Indiana B.C. (Before Cecil) so the monkey had never logged it and therefore was missing the icon.  This weekend the exhibit started its run in Nashville, Tennessee at the Adventure Science Center (until September).  So being a three day weekend and having nothing else to do… we headed down to catch the exhibit, get the icon, and a smiley.  All I can say is if you know nothing about geocaching, but would like to learn and are anywhere near Nashville stop by.  The next time it will be near to Indiana (my home base) will be in 2012 when it goes to Dayton, Ohio. Besides the exhibit Cecil would also recommend- the World’s Largest Travel Bug Hotel, Walk Like an Egyptian, The Anchor… and a bunch more.  If you are looking for icons- there are a lots of virtuals & webcams in town.  Cecil did pick up is 1500th find on the way home- so he considers it a good weekend. This week marks the end of school and while I will be free to pursue other interests starting Friday, I can only hope that I will get all the paperwork done in time to produce the comic this week…  keep your fingers crossed.
Hope everyone has a wonderful long weekend (if you are a U.S. Citizen), or a regular weekend (if you understand the metric system).  I wonder where Cecil will end up next? Cecil will be visiting the GeoAdventures Exhibit in Nashville this weekend.  If you are in the area hope to see you… I’ll be the one with the monkey!