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So, I am finally going paperless. On Valentines day the wife & I changed phone carriers. We are now with AT&T… & that means I got the much awaited (for me) iPhone.

I’m actually posting this message from my phone using a Wordpress app.

One of the first apps I downloaded was the official geocaching.com app. I was glad to see that some of the issues had been fixed. For example you can now log in and filter caches you have previously found. This is great news.

There are some other fixes that have made the app much more useful. Like logging finds from the phone.

Anyway, I am excited to now be able to get my numbers up more quickly and not kill trees in the process. Going paperless is such a great feeling.

Anyone else out there go paperless with their iPhone? If so, I’d like to hear from you.

Just testing out the camera with this app… There is a free sneek peek for you all.

Today I finally updated my profile on geocaching.com to include my full stats.

I tried a couple of different websites. First I generated stats from http://www.itsnotaboutthenumbers.com/… and while the end result is nice, it wasn’t everything I was looking for and the enlarged image driven output was not as editable as I had hoped for. So after trying that online driven stat site I moved on to another site that has a program you can download.

http://www.logicweave.com/cachestats.html is the link where you can download a free program called CacheStats. It works great! The final output looks a bit out dated, but everything is nicely put together and you can control the overall look and feel a little better than the first site I tried.

To see what I finally settled on, log into geocaching and go here to see my profile.

On geocaching.com you can add images to your cache description page, but some people do not know how this is done. I’m going to explain this in the shortest, simplest terms I can. The directions below should help, if you have problems let me know.

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Short update here, I’m at #147 and this one was a FTF… yeah me.

BTW, I have some FTF news for everyone coming soon… so stay tuned.

Hit a few more caches in the Jacksonville area today… nowhere as near as many as I had hoped on this beautiful “spring-like” day. Oh well… there is always tomorrow.

Ok after getting out again today my daughter and I added 14 more to our finds. Went out for 15 came back with 14, NO DNFs… one we had to give up on because of muggles in the area all day… so we never really got to hunt for it.

I hope to break 200 soon.

My daughter and I went out this morning and knocked out five caches in Jacksonville, Arkansas. My new total is now 120. After some housekeeping “honeydews”… we’ll be heading out for more. (crossing fingers)

Simple question. Can other geocachers spot you? Say in line at Wal-Mart or pumping gas at a gas station…

I wear a geocaching patch on my jacket. A geocaching pin on my hat. My car has an Arkansas Geocacher’s Association sticker on the back glass and two “G” style logos on the windows (one on each side)…

I feel this allows other cachers to feel like they can approach me knowing I’m “in on it”. Plus, when a land owner sees my car, they know why I’m there.

To continue my showcase of custom containers, I give you my first attempt at making a stick or branch. It is supposed to look like a piece of wood and blend in around the base of a tree somewhere (ie, with normal leaf litter, etc). Take a look at the photos (click them to enlarge) and feel free to post any questions.

Ok… so by now most Arkansas geocachers have heard about the recent call to the bomb squad in Conway.

Tuesday the Conway City Bomb Squad detonated a suspicious package on Tilk Road in Conway only to find out it was just a geocache box full of toys and because of that, the popular hobby is starting to raise some red flags for authorities.

Read the full report here

This report says basically says that all geocache containers should be clear so that people can know what is inside of them. How about asking the land owner if they know what it is? That might be a better approach. Or maybe instead of spending tax payer dollars to go man-up and get a robot to blow some crap up, you use less money to find one local cop that actually geocaches in his spare time (I’m sure there is at least one) and ask that person to look into it first before calling out “The Calvary”.

It is amazing to me that they seem to be blaming the cachers. I wouldn’t blame the person that hid it or the container it is in, but rather two other main items of note. Read the rest of this entry »