Holy crap, I hope you saw me on the news waving in 7NE the citation Tom Osborne was flying around the country interviewing prospective coaches on. There were news trucks everywhere with dumbass reporters trying to get “the scoop” on everyone else. Of course we knew where they were parking and what time they were going to get there but it was fun to make the reporters run around telling them we had no idea. I wanted to mess with them more by having guys all over the place with wands acting like they are parking there so they had to set up their cameras and wait and end up not seeing anything, but by the time it was all over it was just pissing me off. I wasn’t really as pissed off by the media since that’s how they make a living as I was by all the slack jawed workers we have here who were creeping around trying to be where they have no business being. It’s just unprofessional and really makes me mad. I don’t know what all these people are trying to see anyway. They were all looking for Bo Pelini to step off the plane and wave to everyone and get announced as the new coach after being the only one interviewed. I don’t fucking understand why people STILL come up with these elaborate theories and insider information stories on what is going on. How many times is Tom going to say what he is going to do and then do it before people believe it? He said he’s going to talk to four or five people before he makes a decision and that most likely takes more than a day in Baton Rouge and Atlanta doesn’t it? I’m so sick of the whole topic already. Hire Paul Johnson already and get it over with.
I did a little geocaching in the last couple days. I found four of them yesterday and one today. I even hid one of my own a few weeks back. Took the dog along yesterday and he got plenty dirty going through the woods with me. I had to climb like fifteen feet into a tree on one of them and kind of fell and scraped myself up a little. Today I found one and got this sweet 1986 Nebraska Cornhusker belt buckle as my “swag”.
Sweet. It’s got the original Herbie Husker instead of the dumb muscle bound one or lil’ red. It also says Cornhuskers instead of the modern Huskers that we use now since we don’t want to be seen as “hicks”.
OK, I know that I’ll be seen as a hick but so what? What’s a “swag”? Is it a prize or reward for looking in the right spot? Or do you take what you find in the box? I’ve never done the geocaching thing so all I know is what you tell me…after all I’m just a small town hick…
Swag is an old pirate term. Websters defines it as “goods acquired by unlawful means : loot, spoils, profits” and it says it originated in 1660. I was just trying to impress everyone with my mad vocabulary skillz. Anyway, depending on how big the container is that you find there may be various trading items in there. It’s usually nothing all that good, I would describe the majority of it to be the type of stuff that you might get as a prize at the fair but the point if it is that it’s fun to find undiscovered “treasure” that was sitting right under everyone’s noses. Anyway if you want you can trade some of your interesting trinkets for something that you like in the container. Or you can not take anything and just sign the log saying you were there. There’s a log in all of them to sign. There are also sometimes trackable coins and travel bugs in there that you can also take but you cannot keep. You have to move it someplace else and log it where you put it. I just think the whole process is really fun because the majority of the time people hide things near interesting places. You would be really surprised how many times I have gone “wow I didn’t even know this was here” around something that I may drive by all the time but never stop to notice. You can read here for the FAQ and here for a guide to finding your first one.
OK, since you aren’t buying any Christmas presents…I know what I want for my birthday…a Garmin…but maybe I’ll go looking at them and get one for myself for my birthday. That sounds like it could be pretty fun, at least it would be something to do on my weekends off, instead of just laying around watching tv.
I would make sure you are willing to do a little driving to get to them if you are wanting to do that. I know in a bigger town like Lincoln there are a whole lot to find and it would take forever to get to them all but around the Genoa area people are pretty much just starting out. Last year there weren’t any at all in the Genoa city limits. Now there are eight. You could easily wipe out all eight in a short day of caching to you would then have to travel a little to get to any new ones. There are 839 of them within a fifty mile circle around my house. There are 331 of them within fifty miles of yours. I’m looking now and there are about 42 in Columbus and the surrounding area and in the immediate Lincoln area there’s about 315. It says there are 490,279 of them worldwide so they are pretty much everywhere. It all depends on new people getting into it to keep it going. You start out maybe going along on some, then you get your own gps unit and username on the website, then you start hiding some for other people to find and then the circle starts again. I’ve only hidden one myself (a magnetic keyholder), and I have another keyholder that I can hide but haven’t found anyplace interesting to put it yet. I want to get myself an ammo box which is the traditional larger size cache and hide one of those because they are a lot more fun to find. People also use tupperware containers for the larger sized ones. Anything waterproof will work. Hold off on buying a gps, my boss at work says he has one that he’s had for like 3 years that he has never used and maybe he will want to sell it. I don’t know what kind it is for sure. If it’s a handheld one that would work but it might be a car one that you have to plug into a cigarette lighter.
Yeah, check that out and let me know. I don’t think I’ll buy a very expensive one anyway, can’t afford it. It does sound like fun though. Anyway, see you on Christmas for sure then…I love you, bye.