I slept like a log last night. It was rather cold (for August) but I had two dogs
snuggled up to me radiating quite a bit of heat to keep me warm.
As I scoffed my toast I had a little look at the
geo-map. I’ve got a little plan for a small series of Wherigoes but finding
somewhere to put the things was something of an issue. There’s not many places
left locally that don’t already have caches on them. I *really*don’t want to use an area that
has an odd cache already there; most of these caches have been put out by
people who got overly excited at the prospect of putting a film pot under a
rock, and then lost interest. I tend to avoid those areas when hiding my own
film pots under rocks. You end up putting in loads of effort only to have your
location remembered most because of that cache that the local scouts don’t
maintain any more.
But I eventually found somewhere that looked
promising
I got the dogs into the car and after a ten-minute
drive we were walking along the new little route I had in mind for my
Wherigoes. As we walked I was rather amazed to see a sign from a local farmer
asking dog walkers to clear up the dog poo. Bearing in mind the field was awash
with sheep dung, what difference does one dog turd make? Especially a turd from
my dogs who are regularly wormed.
We had a good little walk. Across fields, through
woods… there was a little episode when we lost Fudge. I finally spotted him in
the next field about fifty yards away going at right angles to the way the rest
of us were walking. But he came back when called… I say “called”; “bellowed
at” might be a better description.
This is a little walk we’ve done before. It’s a
good one; it was especially good to walk with the dogs and not meet up with any
of the normal people.
I got home, and spent an hour and a half doing the
bare minimum geo-admin so that the geo-feds can let me know whether or nor the
Wherigo series is possible or not. If they give it the thumbs down, then we had
a good walk anyway. If the locations are acceptable, the next stage is for me
to create a Wherigo cartridge. That will probably take about thirty to forty
hours work over a month or so.
I spent the afternoon in bed; I got a couple of
hours’ sleep, then watched a couple of episodes of “Black
Mirror” on Netflix. Netflix has been playing up recently
in that it doesn’t seem to remember what I’ve been watching, and where I’ve got
with it. I blame the constant upgrading of the app; if those who made the thing
would just leave it alone
Once "er indoors TM" boils up some
dinner I’m off to the night shift. On the one hand I don’t want to do the night
shift. On the other hand I like the time off work either side of the night
shift and I’m not scheduled to do another for over six weeks.
I should
really stop whinging…
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