Comments | oilygrrl: Can I get a D'oh! from the congregation?

oilygrrl

Can I get a D'oh! from the congregation?

Sep 30, 2007 22:44

Went to REI this Thursday for the Geocaching 101 Workshop announced on their website. I brought my laptop along as I wasn't sure how many people would be there or what their interest level would be. So if there were a lot of people there who were very interested or had tried it out before I could show them a couple of dedicated programs for it. ( Read more... )

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spot October 1 2007, 04:17:40 UTC

I still don't have any FTF.

Then again, I haven't reset it to alert me for any new caches near me in Boston. Did hit one up in VT last week, though. :)

oilygrrl October 2 2007, 02:19:40 UTC

I'm not a FTF hound, two seems about right for the intersection of a time I can cache and a new one that's less than 10 miles from me. It is pretty fun though.
Lots of the local cachers are past hunting FTFs or upping their numbers, they're doing stuff like finding caches in every county in the state and finding a cache in every page of the DeLorme atlas of Illinois. That's too much for me yet. I'm just trying to clear as big a radius around my house as I can.

donia October 1 2007, 04:18:07 UTC

I have such a crush on Paul Rodgers voice and I have ever since I first heard the original version of "All Right Now" by Free back when I was a teen. It led me to become a Bad Company fanatic and follow Paul through his solo career. I'm not sure if it's wise to be admitting that, but there it is.

oilygrrl October 2 2007, 03:00:07 UTC

He does have a fantastic voice but I didn't know his name until I saw the video for The Firms' "Radioactive", even then I didn't realize how many familiar songs he'd sung.

donia October 2 2007, 03:19:44 UTC

The Firm was the first concert I ever went to. My mother didn't want me to go because concerts are dens of drug and alcohol, but she knew I was all into Paul Rodgers, so she relented only on the condition that an adult take me. One of my aunts, a die-hard alcoholic, volunteered. Surpringly, my mom let me go with her, which guaranteed that I would not only enter the devil's lair, but also partake of his delicious wickedness. Either my mom didn't notice my condition or she decided to overlook it. Either way, it was a great time and ignited my obsession with live shows.

unhipster October 1 2007, 04:21:31 UTC

I think I'm going to have to crown you Queen of Poison Ivy.

oilygrrl October 2 2007, 03:00:47 UTC

Not Queen, just Princess. ;-)

c0defiant October 2 2007, 05:40:33 UTC

I was thinking a Poison Ivy costume for Halloween. :P

ladysilverlark October 1 2007, 13:55:05 UTC

They do make a clear Caladryl. I have the target knock off which works just as well. You can still tell where the stuff if if you put it on to thick. But at least it only looks like you have peeling skin.

Amusingly enough my mother is immune to it if she is handling it. But she would get it if she treated my brother or me when we where kids.

oilygrrl October 2 2007, 03:14:09 UTC

I'm sure _she_ wasn't amused by that.
I saw the clear Caladryl but inexplicably went for the 'tone neutral' Ivarest. It looks like Pepto Bismol mixed with taupe shoe polish.
Today I bought a kit-more PI soap and a 'treatment spray'. The soap seemed to work as well as the CVS stuff but the 'treatment spray' was a little spritzer bottle full of alcohol. Owwie.

erikvolson October 2 2007, 00:01:12 UTC

I got tagged by poison ivy gathering firewood for chilicon last week -- just a stripe on the arm, probably a dead vine.

I give "IVY-DRY" cream a thumbs up. It smells funny, but it dried up the blisters and stopped the itching almost instantly.

Apparently, washing off with soap and water (or alcohol) works only in the first fifteen minutes, by that time, the urushiol has already bound to skin proteins, simple washing won't remove it.

oilygrrl October 2 2007, 03:19:14 UTC

I'll have to try Ivy-Dry next time. I'm sure there will be a next time, I've just been really lucky so far.
I was told that as long as the oil is washed off within four hours you'll be ok. I was also told that alcohol or soap and cold water are the only ways to assure you're washing the oil off but wetnaps certainly worked for me.
What _actually_ seems to be the case is it varies from person to person and even from exposure to exposure for the same person.
I'm definitely going to be more careful on the trail from now on because most folks seem to feel their first episode was their mildest.

erikvolson October 3 2007, 14:04:17 UTC

Actually, wetnaps are pretty good.

One of the antiPI-soap products I have in my cache bag seems to have glass beads in it... I presume their function is to clean off the bonded skin by abraiding it... that may mean that cheaply-available anti-zit product works too... but I haven't tested. I don't have too much trouble with PI, but like you, I think it's mostly luck and habitual long pants and high shoes. Winter caching season is coming... no PI, no spiders, no wasps.

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