Random bits and pieces

[gunhilda]

My geocaching travel bug has made it to Winnipeg, Canada. It flirted with Vancouver, then went back to Seattle, then bounced around in Utah, then traveled to Minnesota, North Dakota, and finally crossed the border into Canada. I don't know if all travel bugs are this busy, but I think it is a well traveled bug

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[ziparumpazoo]

My geocaching travel bug has made it to Winnipeg, Canada

Hey cool! What does it look like? I shall wave if I see it on a street corner. ;)
(I live 10 minutes outside of Winnipeg)

[gunhilda]

The travel bug is a key chain from Lake Murray State Park in Oklahoma.

Here is the website for the cache it's in:
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=63cef9a5-a661-4962-9a6a-1d6dbafe2a86

It's located at the following coordinates:
N 49° 52.769 W 097° 20.450

On google maps, it looks like it's NW and across the highway from Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, if that means anything to you. :)

[ziparumpazoo]

I know that field! It's on the absolute opposite end of the city from me, but we pass it on the way to visit family. It's also just down the road from one of the last drive-in theaters to close down in Canada. Small world, eh?

[ziparumpazoo]

Yep - that's the field I was thinking of: http://ziparumpazoo.livejournal.com/66105.html

[rhiannonredwulf]

Indeed, is it like a homing device or something? Or is it just that the people who find it report its position? (For those of us who are geo-caching neophytes.)

Macs always kind of demand that you name them. (Really, it's in the setup-- "What is my name?") So maybe the computer is just feeling an identity crisis that you haven't given it a name?

Washing Machine that turns itself on. That's really wacky. Hope that doesn't devolve into, Washing Machine that sets itself to hot water setting when you put your delicates in there.

[gunhilda]

People who find it report where they found it, and usually where they drop it off. So, it has a travel log of it's journey. I'm not sure if you have to be logged in to see this, but here is it's webpage:

http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?guid=4815ec80-0323-48de-97d2-5c9fb309914d

[shimmeringstar1]

LOL! That certainly *is* one well-traveled bug!

Here's hoping for some rain for you. Except for the butterfly bushes, I think I'm going to stop watering most of my flowers; we're nearing frost and freeze time.

Is there a short (or is it an electronic thing?) in the washer's wiring?

[scifithinker]

Somehow, I didn't expect that you would be the one on my flist to post about hauntings and possessions.

I hope you're feeling like yourself again soon.