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Nadal, King of Clay

NOT a Leap Day

Time to host another event. NOT a Leap Day. This photo seemed appropriate :)

Pentatonix!

I wanted to do a geocaching puzzle based on Pokemon Go, but it was bounced. I was told that Groundspeak has decided that Pokemon Go is a competitor to them and has banned caches that mention the game. I think this is total bs but can't really do much about it. Every possible recreational activity is a competitor to geocaching, so why single out this one?

I've had another idea for a puzzle for a while, so I'm switching my already approved locations over to that one and uploading the photos I want to use for it here. I hope my fellow Pentaholic gets an FTF on it, but she's got to get back from Australia first!

Pokemon Go

I'm really liking Pokemon Go. It's cute :) I stink at the Gym battles, but other than that it's fun to try to catch all the different Pokemon. Unfortunately for these purposes, my town isn't a densely populated area, so the propagation of Pokemon isn't all that great. I don't get any near my house, but I've seen stories and screenshots from others who basically can just play anytime they want from their couch. Oh well, that's life...or Augmented Reality at least ;)

My laziness overrides my other laziness

That's a quote from me said to my friend the other day while we were out geocaching ;) We were talking about trying to find a puzzle cache solely by judging the distance from other caches and going by any given hints on the puzzle page as to hide placement. I said I'd thought about trying it on one particular cache, but "my laziness overrides my other laziness" ;)  Meaning my physical laziness wins out over my mental laziness.

These guys: not lazy

Whenever you post a new geocache, you have the option of putting a picture in the background. I like doing that, but it requires a url in the field--you can't just upload a photo from your computer (as far as I know, anyway). I was creating the page for a new event here in Gainesville and wanted a photo of last year's Wimbledon champions. Couldn't find one on the web of the two of them together, so I made a partial screenshot, seen above, and then had to get it uploaded somewhere so it would have a url. So there it is, and now I can use it on my event page.

I should probably post all my background images here just to make sure they will still load when people pull up my cache pages. I've used urls from other people, and things happen. Web pages disappear. If I post them here, then the images should always load--well, as long as Google is around at least ;)

And hey, come to the event :)

GC6MEPG Wimbledon Meet and Greet
Sunday, July 10, 2016 2 pm - 3 pm
at posted coordinates :)