I slept well again. I
have another theory about my sleep patterns... I sleep better and
longer when I am not on the month of permanent day shifts.
Right now I think I'm
still catching up on sleep from the two night shifts last weekend.
Yet another reason why I like the night work. As well as actually
preferring the work format at night, I get time off mid-week to do my
own thing, longer shifts mean fewer and so I save on petrol, I get a
little extra money, and now I realise that when on nights I seem to
sleep better.
Over brekkie I watched
Billie Piper in "Secret Diary of a Call Girl" in
which she was discussing (and demonstrating) the merits of a
boob job. Needless to say this was one of the better things that I've
seen on telly recently.
"Furry Face TM"
had the crusts of of my toast and then we set off for our walk.
Earlier in the week I'd
been told (by the chap who'd put it out) that the Otford Hills
geo-series had run its course, and he'd said that if I was going to
walk the route would I please fetch in the caches for him. He would
then archive them all and replace them with a new series. I'm only
too willing to help out with something like this, and being on
another rostered day off today I'd put out the word to see if anyone
fancied coming on a geo-dog-stroll with me.
There had been some
interest, and six of us (and three dogs) met up in the hills
outside Otford for a stroll. Beautiful scenery made all the better by
the wonderful weather. The only fly in the ointment was... I blame
myself. The clue was in the name of the cache series. "Otford
*Hills*" There was some serious ups and a couple of
rather iffy downs.
Clear instructions for
the route were given in the cache descriptions. There was only one
point where we didn't actually read them and we did go just a little
off-course. My excuse is a lack of familiarity with my new GPS toy.
Talking of which...
I had a trial run with
the thing on Tuesday. Today was it's first *serious* outing.
Setting the thing up before leaving home is still a bit of a faff.
But once in the field... I think it's fair to say that out of
everyone on today's walk I got the most out of the day. My five
fellow geo-comrades had far more experience of the Garmin technology
than me and I learned an awful lot. Next stages and hints are no
longer mysteries to me.
I wouldn't go so far as
to say I prefer using it to my phone, but I'm not as against the GPS
brigade as once I was.
After four hours we were
back at the cars. Some of us had other things to do; four of us
carried on into Otford where we did that oh-so-obscure
geo-phenomenon; a Wherigo cache. It was a fun little guided tour
round Otford. It only took half an hour, and it brought my total of
found Wherigos up to thirteen.
It's my long term plan to
have found more of those than I've hidden. Five more to go.
We said our goodbyes. As
I drove home there was drivel on the radio so I put on a CD instead
and squalled along to a Sparks tribute album.
Once home I uploaded the
photo
or two I'd taken as we walked, and then struggled with the
geo-admin program. It's still not doing what I want but I think I now
know where I've been going wrong. I then fell asleep and was out for
the count until Steve popped round to collect some bits and bobs for
tomorrow's astro club as I'm not going to be there.
"er indoors TM"
then boiled up a rather good bit of scoff which was only let down by
a rather grim bottle of wine. We've no idea where a bottle of Morada
Real white wine came from; but it's one I won't be buying again...
Yesterday I had a dull
day; today was far better.
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