No juice
We had yesterday a team event with the members of the competence centre business intelligence at work. For the second year we choose for geocaching.
Last year, we did we discovered ‘HET BED VAN NAPOLEON (HAGELAND) GCHE8G’. In fact it was my first experience with geocaching and since then I got the caching virus which I don’t want to get rid of.
This year, we attacked Dijleland 2 : Korbeek-Dijle GCM7XX. Most of the ‘injuries’ of last Sunday were gone: no stiff gluteus or swollen hand anymore (I didn’t need to take antibiotics for it). The blister was still there, but I’ve put a blister patch on it, which seems to work rather well.
It didn’t look very nice weather wise. I started to rain heavily 15 mins before we wanted to head to the starting location but once arrived it didn’t rain anymore till we were back in the car after finishing the cache and a nice walk afterwards. All this rain resulted in many very muddy trails, but the cache owner warned for it and thus we were prepared. I was prepared also technical wise and wanted to show off with my PDA, but when I hit the on switch nothing happened. Even the reset button didn’t gave any result. The Ipaq 214 was out of juice, which was rather strange since I recharged it the evening before. I don’t what happened to cause this mishap. Did I forget to turn it off or did I push the on switch accidently despite being in its case? Luckily, I had a printout of this multi and we completed it successfully. Unfortunately, some bloodthirsty species got me again (on the same hand) and I discovered this morning the itchy result.
In order to celebrate our second cache discovery as a team, I also logged Gesundheit GCD825, which was rather relevant. I know, it’s a virtual and I did say that it was mostly used for stat hunting, which I would never do. I have to rephrase this a bit. Some virtuals are indeed logged only for the stats, whereas the intention of the cache is to go to the location and find the answer for the questions asked. Unfortunately, one can find many of the answers on internet which makes it easy to cheat.
There other categories of virtuals, where one needs to take a picture, aren’t physically able to get to the location or the owner says explicitly that one doesn’t need to go there in order to log legit. I concentrate on these categories and log only for special occasions. Let’s face it, 4 virtuals out of the 262 caches in total (=0.015%) can’t be called stats hunting, can it?
