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It has been raining pretty steadily here for three days now. There's no break forecasted for the immediate future.
This puts a damper on outdoor activities, like Geocaching. Sure; I could still go, and run around getting soaked to the bone. I do enough of that at work, thank you.
Since I've come down with some kind of crud, I think I'll just stay home today and lay around the house.
I purchased the Garmin City Navigator NT North America software recently (happy birthday to me!), and was having a bit of trouble installing the "unlock" code that must be retrieved from Garmin's website.
The description on their site didn't seem to match the user interface on the latest version of the software, at first. I tried a couple of different things, but just couldn't seem to get the unlock code to work for me. Buyers are required to retrieve a one-time-use code from Garmin in order to use all of the features of the software (to prevent people from installing the maps on all of their buddies' GPS units).
I contacted Garmin's customer support through their website, and got a very polite, and very helpful response very quickly. Garmin walked me through the process of unlocking the software, and did it without much hooplah. What a refreshing change of pace!
I wish that all customer support venues were as helpful as Garmin's was (hello, Groundspeak?).
I've found a few Geocaches over the last couple of days, all after work. I've been fortunate enough to get off of work pretty early (about 1:30 PM) for two days in a row. I'm certainly not complaining about that.
Yesterday I stopped at Yaka Beach and did a two part multi-cache. The weather was beautiful--It was sunny with a nice breeze. After that, I hit a neat little spot in Ishikawa, where a neighbor of mine has a Geocache hidden. Since he's currently out of the country, I'm supposed to be keeping an eye on his hidden caches. That means I have to find the rest of them (I've found about half of his caches).
Today I headed North from Camp Hansen, and hit three spots that looked promising. The first one was near the Kin Bridge, and I found the cache easily. It wasn't too far from my own "Old McDonald" caches. Next, it was off to a small shrine a little farther up the road. I couldn't find that one, due to the construction workers that seemed to be on a perpetual break. It was a neat shrine, though. Next, I stopped at a little restaurant that has apartments above it. The cache was well hidden, and the mosquitoes were out in force.
It was a fun way to spend a couple of hours after work, and the scenery was nice.
After attending a caching event at Comprehensive Park, I headed along the Awase seawall in search of a geocache called, "Sumo Jacks." The seawall is constructed of large concrete pilings that are shaped like giant jacks (as in the game, not the device for lifting cars).
I wasn't able to make the find because there were a couple of locals sitting right on top of it.
I did take a couple of pictures though.
I had a good time at today's Geocaching event. Thanks to Tim for posting the picture, and thanks to the hosts for putting on the event. It was good to see so many fellow cachers, old and new.
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