Seven and a half hours
sleep last night. Can't be bad. Mind you I was still up and about
shortly after 6am. I put some washing into scrub, and with another
rostered day off I thought I'd try out my new GPS gadget. The were
three geocaches in Charing that I thought I'd test it on. So I spent
a little while setting the thing up. And as a comparison did the
same with the phone.It's actually slightly quicker to download what
you need onto the phone app; but the phone app has crap maps.
As I downloaded my little
dog sat with me; hoping for the crusts off of my toast. Vet did say
"NO!!" but one small piece of toast crust can't
hurt, can it?
I put the washing on the
line, and took "Furry Face TM" for
the walk. We went via the DIY store to get some filler. I left my dog
in the car for five minutes, and in that time he set the alarm off.
Bearing in mind I had a
GPS unit to test we went up to Charing where there were three caches
I'd not found; all about half a mile apart. I stopped at the station
as it was an obvious place to park. The car park was empty; all the
nearby streets were full of parked cars. So I paid two pounds and
parked up. As we walked off someone in British Rail (or whatever
it's called these days) uniform marched up to the car and made
great show of checking the ticket we'd just bought. His face went
crimson when I shouted and asked what he was doing near my car.
As for our walk... The
GPS unit worked as a GPS unit without fault; I do like hiking with
the use of an on-line ordnance survey map. However it's geocachical
ability leavs much to be desired. I know I'v a lot to learn about it,
but so far it seems that the on-board geo-app is inferior (in
every way) to what I'm used to. And at the moment I have
absolutely no clue about hints and corrected co-ords. But I expect I
will get the hang of them.
Mind you it was a lovely
walk. Beautiful scenery, wonderful views. My little dog was off the
lead for much of the way. And with five minutes left before we got
back to the car my little dog covered himself from nose to tail in
fox poo.
We came home, a certain
dog got bathed and I used the filler to bodge repairs to the
bannister. With that done I then did the geo-admin from the morning's
walk. Admittedly it's rather straight-forward, but there's no denying
that it's not really any easier than what I'm used to, it does
actually take a little more time and (so I'm told) the
third-party uploading software is only free for a certain length of
time.
Over lunch I watched
yesterday's episode of "Game of Thrones" in which
although she didn't flop anything out, Nudey Dragon-Girl was nudey. I
then broke my back heaving the seats back into the car and I went on
to spend a little while pulling the grass out of the paving in the
front garden until my back could take no more.
I then watched the 1966
Batman film whilst failing to solve geo-puzzles.
Being Tuesday we had the
weekly gathering. This time in Folkestone. After I lost ChromeCast
games quite comprehensively we watched the pilot episode for the new
"Supergirl" series. It's quite good; I wonder
how long it will be before other episodes are leaked on-line...
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