Well, you get all geeky, that’s what you do with a GPS.

Since we agreed that geocaching was something that’s more fun when done together, I found something else to do with the GPS while Takaza is at work – benchmark hunting. This is even more pointless than geocaching, but it’s just as fun. I tracked down two benchmarks on Friday (which was a good excuse to get out of the house, since there was a realtor showing it). The first one was hard to find (in the floor of a bridge, under some mud) but I got to meet a very friendly local dog who really liked having his ears skritched. The second one involved running through traffic to find the marker on the center pillar of a bridge. This was lots of fun and is definitely something I’ll be doing more. We met up with some of the gang for dinner on Friday, then went to see Bowling for Columbine. It was an interesting movie, deeply flawed in a lot of ways (though I generally agree with Moore’s politics).

Saturday morning I was up far too early to go to a local SCA event to see the knighting of an old friend. It was a lot of fun and I really enjoyed the short time I was there but it also reminded me why the SCA is fun, but not really a place for me. I met up with Dan and friends over pizza in the afternoon and then we adjourned back to the house. Dan and Sherry made dinner while I bummed around and took a much-needed nap. Dinner was pleasant, and was a nice reminder that Dan should cook more often 🙂

We were late getting started on Sunday, but once we got rolling we hit four different local caches. When we pulled up to find the first cache a group of people were getting in their car and driving off. I turned to Dan and said, “Do you think they’re geocachers?” He said, “Nah, couldn’t be.” Then they pulled their car around and asked us if we were geocachers! It turned out they had only found the first of two caches in the park, so we gave them the coordinates for the other cache and we each went off hunting. We had a good day – four caches attempted, four found. Lots of walking through the woods (and off-trail navigation) and some good reminders that our GPS is only accurate to within 10 meters (30 feet). We learned a lot about triangulation and how to think like someone hiding a cache. All in all, we had a blast.

Not much to report about yesterday, except that I had to go to the unemployment office for my bi-monthly employment search review (or as I referred to it, my bi-monthly self-esteem removal). After some shopping, cooking (and a house showing wedged in there), the gang came over for our bi-weekly Mage/Werewolf game, which was fun too.

And now I’m trying to wake up and figure out what to do today. I think I’ll follow steviemaxwell‘s advice and start planning my campaign…