Overcaffeinated and loving it!

First off, I got a wonderful early birthday present from my darling husband Takaza last night: a Magellan Meridian GPS. With this little toy, we’re going to do some fun geocaching – I can’t believe that there are 27 caches just within a 10-mile radius of our house! I guess that’s what happens when you live in an area full of technogeeks. This seems like a really fun thing for the two of us to work together on, plus it gets us out of the house, which is always good. I also want to try hunting down benchmarks, something that Barbarian suggested when we were last in Chicago. Looks like there’s dozens of them in our area, as well.

Need to run some errands today – drop off a copy of our commitment ceremony invitation to Dan so he can show it to his cow-orker, who was just proposed to and is trying to figure out all the details so they can get married in May (!). Also, I need to stop by Wal-Mart to see if they have a new cutter for my electric razor, too (yeah, I can order it online but I want instant gratification, dammit!). And just for fun maybe I’ll stop by the NC State Farmers Market and see if they have some good fresh produce. Naturally, I’ll have the GPS on during all this so I can figure out the other fun stuff it does…

3 thoughts on “Overcaffeinated and loving it!

  1. rustitobuck

    Oh no. I’m feeling the GPS/Geocaching meme.
    What really got me were the benchmarks. Might be fun to grab the digital camera and photodocument some of the other marks near town. I’d run across N 266/ME1657 as a kid; there’s a nice sign on a witness post.
    There are also possible historical references. Descriptions tell what was in an area when the monument was placed. ME3019 (INDIAN) and ME3071 (002 COC) happen to lie along Forest Preserve Drive, which itself is the northern Indian Boundary Line, set by a treaty in 1816. The forest preserves just north of there were originally lands granted to Claude Laframboise and Alexander Robinson (both of Native American descent) in the Treaty of Prairie du Chien in 1829.

    1. Anonymous

      “WOOF! ” (forwarded)
      Hee… watch out, Rusti.
      Barbarian was reading this over my shoulder and he got all excited. “Wait, wait, those are MY benchmarks! WOOF! WOOF! WOOF!”
      I guess it’s a dog thing. (He’s just kidding, anyway. There are benchmarks everywhere and, dog that he is, he goes around marking as many as he can.)
      Raccoons like the geocaching better, though. THAT’s a raccoon thing.
      Get a GPS — it’s fun. And I agree, the historical stuff is even more fascinating.
      Sheila/Chouette

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