I felt a little rough
when I woke this morning. Can't imagine why. As I checked out the
Internet over brekkie I saw that the New Horizons space probe has got
the first colour photos of
the planet Pluto. Quite impressive; if you are impressed by that
sort of thing.
The phone rang. Andy and
Kim had changed plans and would be coming with us today. We got
ready, picked them up and set off to Herne where we met Mountie,
Phoenix and the scouts for a little geo-session.
We didn't cache for long;
only an hour. But it was fun. The scouts were real characters; Chloe
had a proper scream when she thought a fake snail was a real one. And
she wasn't impressed when a rather muddy "Furry Face TM"
jumped up at her. The rest of the scouts were wonderful kids; fun and
chatty. One was telling me all about his GPS unit; I told him about
my phone.
I found half a dozen
caches using my new app; it seemed to work reaonably well.
We then drove into Herne
Bay where we met up with the rest of the geo-brigade. We had planned
to meet up in the local Wetherspoons, but three days ago they
cancelled our booking for no reason. if any of my loyal readers are
in the Herne Bay area might I ask that you *don't* spend any
money in a pub calleed the Saxon Shore; instead go in there and tell
they why you are taking your money elsewhere.
But fifty or so of us met
up on the beach. The Fruitcakes stood us some chips, Nick organised a
barby, my dog ate too many scraps and was sick. Personally I love
meeting up with like-minded people. The Followers of one of our
friends made great fuss of our dog; I got soaked by a crashing wave.
And I think I caught the sun just a little too.
After a couple of hours
we wandered off to catch up with Kim and Andy and we set off home.
Annoyingly I slept of most (all) of the way home. I hate
that...
Once home I did the final
part of the geo-farting-about with my new app and it again seemed
fine. Mind you the thing had taken a lot of power and data out of the
phone today so I spent two minutes setting it to off-line mode for
tomorrow. Or that was the intention. Two minutes became two hours due
to the inability of geocaching dot com to provide me with a .GPX
file. "er indoors TM" and I did
*exactly* the same things; she got a file; I did not.
I *think* the
thing is rigged for off-line action toomorrow; we shall see... This
could be a deal-breaker for CacheSense.
We then went round to
Steve and Sarah's for a birthday Chinese. Very tasty. But you know
you are getting old when most of the conversation is discussing
mutual ailments and medications...
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