Wow, my blog is still here. I would have thought it would be closed & the account deleted by now. But apart from the piles of dust, it's still here waiting for me.
I'm going to try to get on here occasionally and write a few posts, about random things happening in our life. Things like make-up and musicals and movies. And geocaching. There is always geocaching.
Monday 13 October 2014
Tuesday 19 March 2013
Triathlon 2012
Women's Triathlon Festival, Penrith, 25 November 2012
It was almost 40 deg C, the heat was a killer, I had to walk most of the running leg, but I finished.
Monday 18 March 2013
I went for a run
Sounds a simple thing, but it's my first run since the triathlon on 25 November last year. I've felt myself getting more & more out of shape, so this morning I pulled out my running gear & went out before sunrise.
At first I felt terrible, didn't think I'd make it. But after a few minutes, I got into a rhythm & it started feeling good. The feeling good lasted for about 20 mins, and by then I was heading home, so all was okay.
I'm going to force myself out a few more mornings this week, to see if I can get my body back into the habit of regular runs.
At first I felt terrible, didn't think I'd make it. But after a few minutes, I got into a rhythm & it started feeling good. The feeling good lasted for about 20 mins, and by then I was heading home, so all was okay.
I'm going to force myself out a few more mornings this week, to see if I can get my body back into the habit of regular runs.
Sunday 30 December 2012
Saturday 14 July 2012
50 Days Achieved
We ended up going out. A few of my colleagues know of my caching obsession & have been following my streak. When I raised the possibility of not finding one last night, they were unanimous that I couldn't quit now. I got reminded that I'd reached the humpday & that it would be all downhill after this (yeah, right! I still have another 50 days where I need to find a cache, & with each one, it gets harder for the next night).
I made the kids toasted sandwiches & went to beyond Richmond to find a tradional cache. I left the probably easier to get to puzzle cache for one night next week, when I'll have less time available.
The one we ended up getting would have been difficult by myself, with navigating all the turns to get to it. Connor is getting good at navigating using the iPhone, but this one I think would have been a bit much for him to work out in the dark.
But a friend who'd already found this one came out with us, and he did the navigating. He actually suggested this one, it's a terrain 3, so I hadn't considered it. I own a terrain 2 cache that involves a half kilometre walk down a firetrail & climbing down a cliff to get the cache, so to my mind a terrain 3 is not a nighttime cache. However this terrain 3 involved driving down a road that my car (with low clearance) could handle without problem, and parking 2m from the cache. It was beside a tree next to the road. Should have been classified as a terrain 1.5 at the most. But I won't complain, I get the credit for a T3 on my stats :-).
Anyway, it was an easy cache to do in the dark, and I have made it to day 50. Got home a bit after 9pm, with 2 out of 3 children asleep in the back of the car.
Days 51 & 52 should be okay, we have the weekend available to go out for a few harder bush caches each day. One of them will be a new local cache that is actually dedicated to me :-). I wish I could have got the FTF on it, but with working during the week that wasn't possible.
And my Imp girl wants to place a cache this weekend - we have the ammo can ready to go, we have the general hiding area selected, we just have to get out & hide it now. Which means I have to get off the computer & start moving for the day.
I made the kids toasted sandwiches & went to beyond Richmond to find a tradional cache. I left the probably easier to get to puzzle cache for one night next week, when I'll have less time available.
The one we ended up getting would have been difficult by myself, with navigating all the turns to get to it. Connor is getting good at navigating using the iPhone, but this one I think would have been a bit much for him to work out in the dark.
But a friend who'd already found this one came out with us, and he did the navigating. He actually suggested this one, it's a terrain 3, so I hadn't considered it. I own a terrain 2 cache that involves a half kilometre walk down a firetrail & climbing down a cliff to get the cache, so to my mind a terrain 3 is not a nighttime cache. However this terrain 3 involved driving down a road that my car (with low clearance) could handle without problem, and parking 2m from the cache. It was beside a tree next to the road. Should have been classified as a terrain 1.5 at the most. But I won't complain, I get the credit for a T3 on my stats :-).
Anyway, it was an easy cache to do in the dark, and I have made it to day 50. Got home a bit after 9pm, with 2 out of 3 children asleep in the back of the car.
Days 51 & 52 should be okay, we have the weekend available to go out for a few harder bush caches each day. One of them will be a new local cache that is actually dedicated to me :-). I wish I could have got the FTF on it, but with working during the week that wasn't possible.
And my Imp girl wants to place a cache this weekend - we have the ammo can ready to go, we have the general hiding area selected, we just have to get out & hide it now. Which means I have to get off the computer & start moving for the day.
Friday 13 July 2012
Day 50?
I've been working on the requirements for a challenge cache, the Sydney 100 Caching Days Challenge. To log a find on this cache, I have to find at least one cache a day for 100 days straight.
Today will be day 50 for me. If I go out to find a cache today.
I'm not sure at the moment if I can be bothered to do it. There is nothing easy left to find close to home. Well, there are a few caches that would be easy to do in daylight, but it will be at least 7pm before I can go out and it will be dark by then. Not good for bush caches or ones near a cliff.
And I will have the children with me tonight. My most likely target is a puzzle cache in Richmond. I've solved the puzzle and have the coordinates, and from past experience it should be an easy find in the dark. But it's at least a half an hour drive from home, so if the kids & I head out as soon as we can, it would be at least 8pm before we're home & I can start thinking about cooking dinner. Usually when I drag the kids out on these late night trips, we have takeaway on the way home, just so that I can get them fed & off to bed at a reasonable time. I can't afford takeaway tonight, so I have to cook.
Or I could feed the kids before we go out, then drag them out even later in the cold evening, and have them fall asleep in the car on the way home. Great!
Balance all of the hassles with getting a cache today with the simple fact - it will get me to 50 days. I will be at the half way point. I've already had many nights where I've gone out in the cold for a cache, and if I stop today, I will have wasted all of that effort.
Getting a geocaching streak was never a goal of mine, I've read about other people's streaks on the forum, but it always seemed like too much hard work for what is meant to be a fun hobby. My previous best streak was 10 days, at the end of December 2011 to early January 2011. I was off work for the holidays, a few new caches were published in the area, so I got a 10 day streak without trying.
Caching stops being fun when you HAVE to go out every single day, regardless of how you are feeling, what else you have on, what the weather is like, anything. But I'm also extremely bloody minded, and I started this current streak for a particular reason. That reason still exists, so chances are I will ignore my feelings that it just isn't worth it & go out for just one more tonight, to get to #50.
And my reason for starting the streak - a fairly local caching family who we have had 'issues' with over the past 6 months, deliberately altered the dates on their previous finds to give themselves a '100 day streak' on the official statistics. We discovered their cheating (so did the cache owner who deleted their logs) & started our own streak just to rub it in to them that we could do it legitimately. Petty maybe, but it will feel very good to actually log the 100 day cache knowing that they can't do it.
Today will be day 50 for me. If I go out to find a cache today.
I'm not sure at the moment if I can be bothered to do it. There is nothing easy left to find close to home. Well, there are a few caches that would be easy to do in daylight, but it will be at least 7pm before I can go out and it will be dark by then. Not good for bush caches or ones near a cliff.
And I will have the children with me tonight. My most likely target is a puzzle cache in Richmond. I've solved the puzzle and have the coordinates, and from past experience it should be an easy find in the dark. But it's at least a half an hour drive from home, so if the kids & I head out as soon as we can, it would be at least 8pm before we're home & I can start thinking about cooking dinner. Usually when I drag the kids out on these late night trips, we have takeaway on the way home, just so that I can get them fed & off to bed at a reasonable time. I can't afford takeaway tonight, so I have to cook.
Or I could feed the kids before we go out, then drag them out even later in the cold evening, and have them fall asleep in the car on the way home. Great!
Balance all of the hassles with getting a cache today with the simple fact - it will get me to 50 days. I will be at the half way point. I've already had many nights where I've gone out in the cold for a cache, and if I stop today, I will have wasted all of that effort.
Getting a geocaching streak was never a goal of mine, I've read about other people's streaks on the forum, but it always seemed like too much hard work for what is meant to be a fun hobby. My previous best streak was 10 days, at the end of December 2011 to early January 2011. I was off work for the holidays, a few new caches were published in the area, so I got a 10 day streak without trying.
Caching stops being fun when you HAVE to go out every single day, regardless of how you are feeling, what else you have on, what the weather is like, anything. But I'm also extremely bloody minded, and I started this current streak for a particular reason. That reason still exists, so chances are I will ignore my feelings that it just isn't worth it & go out for just one more tonight, to get to #50.
And my reason for starting the streak - a fairly local caching family who we have had 'issues' with over the past 6 months, deliberately altered the dates on their previous finds to give themselves a '100 day streak' on the official statistics. We discovered their cheating (so did the cache owner who deleted their logs) & started our own streak just to rub it in to them that we could do it legitimately. Petty maybe, but it will feel very good to actually log the 100 day cache knowing that they can't do it.
Monday 9 July 2012
What is Black?
Black is ash
From after a fire
Black is oil
Being used in a machine
Black is darkness
Fear as well
Black is death
Black is the colour of ink
Black is a shadow
That stalks you
Black is emptyness
Tht fills your inside
Black is space
Without any colour
Black is a secret
That nobody can find
Black is anger
That you can't release
by Connor
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