Saturday, May 17th, 2008
1:03 am - Writer's Block: Reacting to my bad mood
I leave early. No use staying there and being mad and unproductive.
I leave early. No use staying there and being mad and unproductive.
12:55 am - Friday
Rainy day today, so I just went to the post office to check the box and did some errands. Went to Subway in Park Ridge and got a spicy italian footlong. Service is not as good there as it is at Subway in Ramsey but what do I expect for $5? They also didn't have small cups for tap water, unlike my usual Subway.
My Postcrossing activity has gone up quite a bit since they raised the postcards in transit cap. Used to be that I would send out only 2 or 3 cards a week, but this week, I sent out 7 cards! I don't know if I'll keep up this pace but I can't wait for postcards from other Postcrossers to start piling up in my mailbox.
( Friday Five )
Rainy day today, so I just went to the post office to check the box and did some errands. Went to Subway in Park Ridge and got a spicy italian footlong. Service is not as good there as it is at Subway in Ramsey but what do I expect for $5? They also didn't have small cups for tap water, unlike my usual Subway.
My Postcrossing activity has gone up quite a bit since they raised the postcards in transit cap. Used to be that I would send out only 2 or 3 cards a week, but this week, I sent out 7 cards! I don't know if I'll keep up this pace but I can't wait for postcards from other Postcrossers to start piling up in my mailbox.
( Friday Five )
Friday, May 16th, 2008
3:17 am - Yantacaw
Another two geocaches for this evening. The first one was "Fowl" Is Fair in Yantacaw Brook Park in Montclair. The first stage of this multistage cache is in a different park, but the subsequent two stages are in Yantacaw. Then I went over to Clifton for Styretown Parking Lot Micro. Yes, it's at a strip mall, although it's surprisingly hard because it's very near a busy intersection and you want to time it so that as few people as possible see you remove and replace the cache.
There were two free food promotions today. One promotion was at McDonald's, where you could get a Southern-style chicken sandwich with drink purchase. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on what you think of McDonald's food :) ), I missed the offer because it was only until 7pm. Of course, my dinner was a little later than that because I eat after geocaching. However, I did get the other promo, which was a free iced coffee at Dunkin' Donuts. That was nice.
Opera Mini 4.1 has come out of beta. I only found out about that today because I likely missed that piece of news when it happened. So I installed it on my phone. One of its new features allows you to save a web page to the phone. However, when I tried that, I saw that by default, Sprint-Nextel disables J2ME application access to the phone's filesystem. That's for safety reasons, of course. I did a bit of digging and found out that I could enable "developer root" on my phone through the Device Activation page. (Sprint ADP login required) The problem is it requires SMS to confirm that I'm the phone's owner and I don't have SMS on my account. So I sent in a support request to ask if there's a way around that and I'll see what they have to say.
Another two geocaches for this evening. The first one was "Fowl" Is Fair in Yantacaw Brook Park in Montclair. The first stage of this multistage cache is in a different park, but the subsequent two stages are in Yantacaw. Then I went over to Clifton for Styretown Parking Lot Micro. Yes, it's at a strip mall, although it's surprisingly hard because it's very near a busy intersection and you want to time it so that as few people as possible see you remove and replace the cache.
There were two free food promotions today. One promotion was at McDonald's, where you could get a Southern-style chicken sandwich with drink purchase. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on what you think of McDonald's food :) ), I missed the offer because it was only until 7pm. Of course, my dinner was a little later than that because I eat after geocaching. However, I did get the other promo, which was a free iced coffee at Dunkin' Donuts. That was nice.
Opera Mini 4.1 has come out of beta. I only found out about that today because I likely missed that piece of news when it happened. So I installed it on my phone. One of its new features allows you to save a web page to the phone. However, when I tried that, I saw that by default, Sprint-Nextel disables J2ME application access to the phone's filesystem. That's for safety reasons, of course. I did a bit of digging and found out that I could enable "developer root" on my phone through the Device Activation page. (Sprint ADP login required) The problem is it requires SMS to confirm that I'm the phone's owner and I don't have SMS on my account. So I sent in a support request to ask if there's a way around that and I'll see what they have to say.
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
2:01 am - Purple and Proxy
This evening, it was cloudy but it didn't rain. So I went to Ramapo Reservation for the second evening in a row to tackle more geocaches up on the mountain ridge. Both geocaches I found this evening are higher up the mountain than the one I did yesterday. However, I find that the more times I hike up this mountain, the easier it gets. Indeed, I'm far better at this now than I was five years ago. Back then, I would almost die halfway up the steep incline and would have to sit down somewhere. (Also of note: I lost nearly 12 lbs since mid-March, although eating only Subway footlongs for dinner most nights may have something to do with that too.) Anyway, Boulder Stash is off the white trail, past the white/blue trail fork. After finding that one, I went back to the blue trail and continued onwards along the ridge to #10762: Ramapo Reservation cache. Lots of boulders there.
Today, I got a purple box from Yahoo. Inside, there was a shiny purple Yahoo! button that yodels loudly when pressed. Apparently, Yahoo is promoting this service for small businesses: http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com They must be spending a fortune though. A bunch of us were on Yahoo's mailing list and we all got purple boxes and buttons.
There's some corporate drama concerning Vaalco Energy. The largest shareholder, Nanes Delorme Partners, who owns 7.9% of the company, sent out a letter to all shareholders (including me, since I picked up some Vaalco while bargain-hunting back in the mid-January lows) stating that management is a bunch of incompetent dopes. (I'm paraphrasing. :) ) They also initiated a proxy fight to get 3 of their people onto the board of directors. Then Vaalco sued Nanes Delorme, alleging that they violated securities laws. None of this really matters to me because I'm going to sell to lock in a 75% gain anyway. So I'll give my vote to Nanes Delorme to shake things up a bit.
This evening, it was cloudy but it didn't rain. So I went to Ramapo Reservation for the second evening in a row to tackle more geocaches up on the mountain ridge. Both geocaches I found this evening are higher up the mountain than the one I did yesterday. However, I find that the more times I hike up this mountain, the easier it gets. Indeed, I'm far better at this now than I was five years ago. Back then, I would almost die halfway up the steep incline and would have to sit down somewhere. (Also of note: I lost nearly 12 lbs since mid-March, although eating only Subway footlongs for dinner most nights may have something to do with that too.) Anyway, Boulder Stash is off the white trail, past the white/blue trail fork. After finding that one, I went back to the blue trail and continued onwards along the ridge to #10762: Ramapo Reservation cache. Lots of boulders there.
Today, I got a purple box from Yahoo. Inside, there was a shiny purple Yahoo! button that yodels loudly when pressed. Apparently, Yahoo is promoting this service for small businesses: http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com They must be spending a fortune though. A bunch of us were on Yahoo's mailing list and we all got purple boxes and buttons.
There's some corporate drama concerning Vaalco Energy. The largest shareholder, Nanes Delorme Partners, who owns 7.9% of the company, sent out a letter to all shareholders (including me, since I picked up some Vaalco while bargain-hunting back in the mid-January lows) stating that management is a bunch of incompetent dopes. (I'm paraphrasing. :) ) They also initiated a proxy fight to get 3 of their people onto the board of directors. Then Vaalco sued Nanes Delorme, alleging that they violated securities laws. None of this really matters to me because I'm going to sell to lock in a 75% gain anyway. So I'll give my vote to Nanes Delorme to shake things up a bit.
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
2:13 am - Not a Rainy Day
It was a rainy day yesterday but the weather was fine today, so it's funny that I went to Rainy Day Women this evening. This geocache is in Ramapo County Reservation in Mahwah. Like the geocache I did last week in the same park, this too is up the mountain. This one is a little further up the mountain though. Whereas last week's geocache was at the reservoir level, this one is near the first lookout point on the blue trail. Although steeper, this evening's walk was shorter and I was there and back to the parking area in well under an hour. After that, I had a meatball marinara footlong at Subway in Ramsey.
TwitVim development continues. Summize Twitter search provides an API so I used it and made it so that TwitVim displays search results in a Vim window. I also added mappings and extended some existing commands to jump to timelines of other users. A TwitVim user actually suggested this feature and generously provided code for it, but I already had a different implementation in mind so I went with the latter.
I've been geotagging my photos, at least those photos that were taken near cache sites. My camera doesn't have GPS and thus doesn't embed GPS metadata into the JPEG files. So, up until yesterday, I'd been uploading photos to Flickr, Geosnapper, Panoramio, etc, and then adding the location data using the interfaces of those websites. (with the help of some AutoHotkey macros) However, because these photo websites recognize GPS tags in EXIF headers of uploaded images, it is less work to add the information to the image file before uploading. This way, I need only add the information to one place: the image file itself. Wish I'd thought of that earlier! So I started using ExifTool this evening to do that. Flickr and Panoramio accept location data just fine this way. Unfortunately, Geosnapper, for reasons unknown, fails to interpret the GPS tags correctly and comes up with locations that are as much as 10 miles off. I'll have to ask them about this problem some time.
It was a rainy day yesterday but the weather was fine today, so it's funny that I went to Rainy Day Women this evening. This geocache is in Ramapo County Reservation in Mahwah. Like the geocache I did last week in the same park, this too is up the mountain. This one is a little further up the mountain though. Whereas last week's geocache was at the reservoir level, this one is near the first lookout point on the blue trail. Although steeper, this evening's walk was shorter and I was there and back to the parking area in well under an hour. After that, I had a meatball marinara footlong at Subway in Ramsey.
TwitVim development continues. Summize Twitter search provides an API so I used it and made it so that TwitVim displays search results in a Vim window. I also added mappings and extended some existing commands to jump to timelines of other users. A TwitVim user actually suggested this feature and generously provided code for it, but I already had a different implementation in mind so I went with the latter.
I've been geotagging my photos, at least those photos that were taken near cache sites. My camera doesn't have GPS and thus doesn't embed GPS metadata into the JPEG files. So, up until yesterday, I'd been uploading photos to Flickr, Geosnapper, Panoramio, etc, and then adding the location data using the interfaces of those websites. (with the help of some AutoHotkey macros) However, because these photo websites recognize GPS tags in EXIF headers of uploaded images, it is less work to add the information to the image file before uploading. This way, I need only add the information to one place: the image file itself. Wish I'd thought of that earlier! So I started using ExifTool this evening to do that. Flickr and Panoramio accept location data just fine this way. Unfortunately, Geosnapper, for reasons unknown, fails to interpret the GPS tags correctly and comes up with locations that are as much as 10 miles off. I'll have to ask them about this problem some time.
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
12:40 am - This is an error?
Looks like Opposites Day is in effect:
( Explanation... )
I went to the Ramsey post office this afternoon to get stamps for the new international postcard rate. Maybe I should've given them a day or two, or even a week, after the postal rate hike because they didn't have 94-cent stamps yet. So I'll continue using 90-cent stamps and add some 2-cent stamps to make up the new rate.
Looks like Opposites Day is in effect:
( Explanation... )
I went to the Ramsey post office this afternoon to get stamps for the new international postcard rate. Maybe I should've given them a day or two, or even a week, after the postal rate hike because they didn't have 94-cent stamps yet. So I'll continue using 90-cent stamps and add some 2-cent stamps to make up the new rate.
Monday, May 12th, 2008
2:37 am - Flash Mob Event, Long Island, Westchester
On Saturday, I went to a flash mob geocaching event, WWFM 3 - "Cachin' Cow Harbor". It was unusual and fun. Until 1pm, we hung around at various locations in the park, pretending not to know one another. Then, at exactly 1pm, we converged to the center of the park. The event lasted exactly 15 minutes, during which we had snacks (cookies and Hershey's kisses), held a raffle, and took a group photo. Then we dispersed and suddenly, the park was quiet once again. What's amusing were the reactions of the other people in the park. You could almost see the WTF? Some of them did ask us and we explained in two parts: what geocaching is about and what this specific event was. We didn't actually need to explain the first part though. It just so happened that they'd already seen a show on Channel 13 about geocaching.
After the event, we went our separate ways, although I did later bump into Wuzzfuzz50 and Kathieny at one of the geocaches on my list. There were a lot of geocaches I hadn't visited in this section of Long Island, so I carried on until dusk. Then I picked up the last geocache of the day (or night, by that time) in Flushing on my way to dinner in Flushing Chinatown.
Sunday was a comparatively low-key day. I went to Westchester, did a bunch of geocaches, and returned home a bit earlier than usual. One of the geocaches was near Stew Leonard's in Yonkers. I was curious about this grocer but I'd never been there before, so I took the opportunity to drop in and take a look. It's a rather upscale grocer, at least compared to where I usually shop. One item that is cheaper there is their milk (they have their own dairy), so I brought a carton home.
( The caches... )
On Saturday, I went to a flash mob geocaching event, WWFM 3 - "Cachin' Cow Harbor". It was unusual and fun. Until 1pm, we hung around at various locations in the park, pretending not to know one another. Then, at exactly 1pm, we converged to the center of the park. The event lasted exactly 15 minutes, during which we had snacks (cookies and Hershey's kisses), held a raffle, and took a group photo. Then we dispersed and suddenly, the park was quiet once again. What's amusing were the reactions of the other people in the park. You could almost see the WTF? Some of them did ask us and we explained in two parts: what geocaching is about and what this specific event was. We didn't actually need to explain the first part though. It just so happened that they'd already seen a show on Channel 13 about geocaching.
After the event, we went our separate ways, although I did later bump into Wuzzfuzz50 and Kathieny at one of the geocaches on my list. There were a lot of geocaches I hadn't visited in this section of Long Island, so I carried on until dusk. Then I picked up the last geocache of the day (or night, by that time) in Flushing on my way to dinner in Flushing Chinatown.
Sunday was a comparatively low-key day. I went to Westchester, did a bunch of geocaches, and returned home a bit earlier than usual. One of the geocaches was near Stew Leonard's in Yonkers. I was curious about this grocer but I'd never been there before, so I took the opportunity to drop in and take a look. It's a rather upscale grocer, at least compared to where I usually shop. One item that is cheaper there is their milk (they have their own dairy), so I brought a carton home.
( The caches... )
Saturday, May 10th, 2008
12:56 am - Postcrossing limit raised
Until today, I was only allowed by the Postcrossing website to have 5 postcards in transit at a time. This evening, I saw that they raised the limit for seasoned Postcrossers. Since I have sent over 250 postcards, I can now have as many as 13 postcards in transit. So this evening, I wrote an additional 8 postcards and used up all my 90-cent and 69-cent stamps just in time for the postal rate hike. Funny how things work out.
I'll mail the cards early tomorrow morning. Then next week, I'll get stamps for the new international postcard rates. (72 cents to Canada and Mexico, 94 cents to all other countries) I'll also get new postcards from the Garden State Parkway rest area since I also used up all my postcards tonight.
Until today, I was only allowed by the Postcrossing website to have 5 postcards in transit at a time. This evening, I saw that they raised the limit for seasoned Postcrossers. Since I have sent over 250 postcards, I can now have as many as 13 postcards in transit. So this evening, I wrote an additional 8 postcards and used up all my 90-cent and 69-cent stamps just in time for the postal rate hike. Funny how things work out.
I'll mail the cards early tomorrow morning. Then next week, I'll get stamps for the new international postcard rates. (72 cents to Canada and Mexico, 94 cents to all other countries) I'll also get new postcards from the Garden State Parkway rest area since I also used up all my postcards tonight.
Friday, May 9th, 2008
11:30 pm - Friday
Rained all day today so I didn't go for any geocaches this evening. I'll save the mile-long hikes for better weather. So instead I went grocery shopping. Snagged the last bag of Valutime Frosted Cocoa at Pathmark. They had it on clearance because they're getting rid of that product line. Pity. It was the bulk-packaged generic brand breakfast cereal with the lowest unit price in the supermarket, so in a way, getting rid of it is a price hike. I'll try something else next time.
Then I went to Subway in Ramsey and had a chicken parmesan footlong. Like the marinara meatball footlong, this one is pretty messy. The sauce just drips all over. Chatted with the neighborhood teens who were hanging out in Subway because of the rain. They were big on footlong jokes. :)
( Friday Five )
Rained all day today so I didn't go for any geocaches this evening. I'll save the mile-long hikes for better weather. So instead I went grocery shopping. Snagged the last bag of Valutime Frosted Cocoa at Pathmark. They had it on clearance because they're getting rid of that product line. Pity. It was the bulk-packaged generic brand breakfast cereal with the lowest unit price in the supermarket, so in a way, getting rid of it is a price hike. I'll try something else next time.
Then I went to Subway in Ramsey and had a chicken parmesan footlong. Like the marinara meatball footlong, this one is pretty messy. The sauce just drips all over. Chatted with the neighborhood teens who were hanging out in Subway because of the rain. They were big on footlong jokes. :)
( Friday Five )
1:24 am - Have a Straw
There was a weather forecast for rain today but it still hadn't started raining by the evening, so I went to Rockland Lake State Park in Congers to find the Marmots' Lounge geocache. It wasn't a tough walk. I started at the Snedeker's Landing sign and was at the cache site in a short time. I recognized the power line view so I must have been there previously for another geocache.
After that, there was still time before dusk, so I headed north to Haverstraw for the Hudson View Series - Kayak Launch geocache. I didn't do this multicache when it came out last year because there was someone parked right at the first stage location. There was someone there this time too, but he was down by the river so there wasn't a problem retrieving that part unseen. The final stage was a bit to the south at Pecks Pond. I saw the cache sitting there exposed so I didn't know how it was supposed to be hidden. I put a rock on it before I left.
I saw a Quiznos in West Haverstraw and I knew that, like Subway, they too were having a $5 special, so I went in to check it out. I was a little disappointed that only one sub in that particular store qualified for the $5 large sub special. (They didn't have the other "deli favorites".) Nevertheless, I had a large honey-cured ham sub.
There was a weather forecast for rain today but it still hadn't started raining by the evening, so I went to Rockland Lake State Park in Congers to find the Marmots' Lounge geocache. It wasn't a tough walk. I started at the Snedeker's Landing sign and was at the cache site in a short time. I recognized the power line view so I must have been there previously for another geocache.
After that, there was still time before dusk, so I headed north to Haverstraw for the Hudson View Series - Kayak Launch geocache. I didn't do this multicache when it came out last year because there was someone parked right at the first stage location. There was someone there this time too, but he was down by the river so there wasn't a problem retrieving that part unseen. The final stage was a bit to the south at Pecks Pond. I saw the cache sitting there exposed so I didn't know how it was supposed to be hidden. I put a rock on it before I left.
I saw a Quiznos in West Haverstraw and I knew that, like Subway, they too were having a $5 special, so I went in to check it out. I was a little disappointed that only one sub in that particular store qualified for the $5 large sub special. (They didn't have the other "deli favorites".) Nevertheless, I had a large honey-cured ham sub.
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
11:47 pm - Writer's Block: Step into My Closet
I'm down to two pairs. I wear the same pair of Brahma boots from Wal-Mart every day. The other pair is an old pair of sneakers I keep in the car just in case something happens to the boots.
I'm down to two pairs. I wear the same pair of Brahma boots from Wal-Mart every day. The other pair is an old pair of sneakers I keep in the car just in case something happens to the boots.
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
11:41 pm - Army 2
Two choices for this evening's geocache: one in Ramsey and one in Congers. Based on proximity, the Ramsey cache won but I'll probably go for the one in Congers the next day anyway. So this evening, I went for Army Cache 2. It's in a wedge-shaped wooded area between Wyckoff Avenue and Woodland Avenue. Nothing remarkable yet, but there is already the beginnings of a trail through it.
After that, I went for another $5 footlong at Subway in Ramsey, just down the road from the cache site. This time I was lucky and got a parking space right in front of the restaurant, although my usual parking location really isn't that far down the sidewalk. I got an Italian BMT Footlong. What does BMT stand for? Well... some folks answered the question here, but it reminds me of the BMT section of the NYC subway.
Other updates: Posted K-Meleon macros for Readbag, for Evernote, and for Google Reader. Also added some enhancements to TwitVim that were suggested by users. As always, it's great that there are users willing to help me test the plugin on Vim platforms that I don't use. Given what I know now about Vim scripting, I would like to go back and revise some of my earlier Vim scripts but there's not enough time. Maybe later.
Two choices for this evening's geocache: one in Ramsey and one in Congers. Based on proximity, the Ramsey cache won but I'll probably go for the one in Congers the next day anyway. So this evening, I went for Army Cache 2. It's in a wedge-shaped wooded area between Wyckoff Avenue and Woodland Avenue. Nothing remarkable yet, but there is already the beginnings of a trail through it.
After that, I went for another $5 footlong at Subway in Ramsey, just down the road from the cache site. This time I was lucky and got a parking space right in front of the restaurant, although my usual parking location really isn't that far down the sidewalk. I got an Italian BMT Footlong. What does BMT stand for? Well... some folks answered the question here, but it reminds me of the BMT section of the NYC subway.
Other updates: Posted K-Meleon macros for Readbag, for Evernote, and for Google Reader. Also added some enhancements to TwitVim that were suggested by users. As always, it's great that there are users willing to help me test the plugin on Vim platforms that I don't use. Given what I know now about Vim scripting, I would like to go back and revise some of my earlier Vim scripts but there's not enough time. Maybe later.
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
11:42 pm - On the reservation
Today, I went to Ramapo Reservation to seek Colubrid Cache. This county park is only a few towns from home and just past the end of Ramsey, so I could go there any time, high gas prices or not. However, all the geocaches there that I haven't done yet are more than a mile from the parking area so I need good weather and a lot of daylight to tackle those after work. This evening was a good time to do one of them. The route for this one was easy. It was a steep walk up to the reservoir level and then a bushwhack along the water's edge to the cache site.
After that, I had a prime rib footlong at Subway in Ramsey, which was a repeat of the previous day's dinner. But why mess with a good thing?
Checking my postal mail, I found a notice saying that I'm a member of yet another class-action lawsuit. (How many of these am I going to get in one year?) This time, it's a bunch of Commerce Bancorp shareholders and pension funds vs. ex-CEO Vernon Hill for alleged breach of fiduciary duty and waste of corporate assets. I don't know if there's that much merit to this lawsuit. Hill neglected to separate his various businesses and keep deals at arm's length but otherwise, he ran a great market-beating regional bank for many years. It's over anyway. The company's been sold and CBH shareholders all have TD stock now.
Today, I went to Ramapo Reservation to seek Colubrid Cache. This county park is only a few towns from home and just past the end of Ramsey, so I could go there any time, high gas prices or not. However, all the geocaches there that I haven't done yet are more than a mile from the parking area so I need good weather and a lot of daylight to tackle those after work. This evening was a good time to do one of them. The route for this one was easy. It was a steep walk up to the reservoir level and then a bushwhack along the water's edge to the cache site.
After that, I had a prime rib footlong at Subway in Ramsey, which was a repeat of the previous day's dinner. But why mess with a good thing?
Checking my postal mail, I found a notice saying that I'm a member of yet another class-action lawsuit. (How many of these am I going to get in one year?) This time, it's a bunch of Commerce Bancorp shareholders and pension funds vs. ex-CEO Vernon Hill for alleged breach of fiduciary duty and waste of corporate assets. I don't know if there's that much merit to this lawsuit. Hill neglected to separate his various businesses and keep deals at arm's length but otherwise, he ran a great market-beating regional bank for many years. It's over anyway. The company's been sold and CBH shareholders all have TD stock now.
Monday, May 5th, 2008
4:09 pm - Queens, then CIA mascot gig
On Saturday, I went to Queens. (with one side trip to Nassau County for a geocache not far from the county line) It was a rainy day but not that bad until the evening when I actually started feeling the rain. This being a Saturday, there were problems with parking at a few locations, but that's why people double park with emergency blinkers on. When in NYC... Anyway, it was a good trip and I almost finished all the geocaches in Queens. Ended the evening with dinner at Sentosa in Flushing. Parking wasn't free but it was late enough by that time that I didn't have to put in many quarters to get to 10pm, after which parking was free anyway.
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freakylynx and I went to Culinary Institue of America in Hyde Park, NY, to do a mascot gig for Walk MS. We were the only two characters for this gig. We actually didn't expect too much from this gig. For one thing, it wasn't a long gig -- the event usually starts at 10am and dies down at around noon. For another, it was a rainy morning and we didn't think too many people would show up. Glad to be proven wrong! It was a good gig. It was cloudy but the rain didn't materialize. Great crowd. After that, we took a walk around to see the CIA campus and went our separate ways.
Then the sun came out. I went geocaching along the Hudson River in the Poughkeepsie area. Crossed over to Highland, New Paltz, Walden, Montgomery, etc. Wanted to hit cache #7777 but that turned out to be a very easy goal for the day because I got that and one extra. Dinner was at Arby's in Middletown and I picked up another two geocaches on my way home. (Warwick is not quite on the way home but it's only a bit of a detour on country roads)
( The caches... )
On Saturday, I went to Queens. (with one side trip to Nassau County for a geocache not far from the county line) It was a rainy day but not that bad until the evening when I actually started feeling the rain. This being a Saturday, there were problems with parking at a few locations, but that's why people double park with emergency blinkers on. When in NYC... Anyway, it was a good trip and I almost finished all the geocaches in Queens. Ended the evening with dinner at Sentosa in Flushing. Parking wasn't free but it was late enough by that time that I didn't have to put in many quarters to get to 10pm, after which parking was free anyway.
On Sunday,
freakylynx and I went to Culinary Institue of America in Hyde Park, NY, to do a mascot gig for Walk MS. We were the only two characters for this gig. We actually didn't expect too much from this gig. For one thing, it wasn't a long gig -- the event usually starts at 10am and dies down at around noon. For another, it was a rainy morning and we didn't think too many people would show up. Glad to be proven wrong! It was a good gig. It was cloudy but the rain didn't materialize. Great crowd. After that, we took a walk around to see the CIA campus and went our separate ways.Then the sun came out. I went geocaching along the Hudson River in the Poughkeepsie area. Crossed over to Highland, New Paltz, Walden, Montgomery, etc. Wanted to hit cache #7777 but that turned out to be a very easy goal for the day because I got that and one extra. Dinner was at Arby's in Middletown and I picked up another two geocaches on my way home. (Warwick is not quite on the way home but it's only a bit of a detour on country roads)
( The caches... )
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
12:51 am - Friday Five
Received a postcard in the mail today saying that I'm a member of this class-action lawsuit. Lockwood v. Certegy Check Services is a case of data breach, in which a Certegy ex-employee stole bank and credit card account data and sold it to a third-party marketing company. Oh, bother.
No Subway footlong today. The stuffed rigatoni with sausage was good.
( Friday Five )
Received a postcard in the mail today saying that I'm a member of this class-action lawsuit. Lockwood v. Certegy Check Services is a case of data breach, in which a Certegy ex-employee stole bank and credit card account data and sold it to a third-party marketing company. Oh, bother.
No Subway footlong today. The stuffed rigatoni with sausage was good.
( Friday Five )