My first geocache "collision"

[cjsmith]

There's a brand-new, never-found-yet (as of last night) geocache near the edge of a shopping area close to my house. Last night I ACHED to get over there to see if I could find it and be first! But no, a) Rob's handheld GPS receiver which I'd need to borrow was in his airplane, b) I could not drive over there 'cause I'd had a glass of wine, c) I sure as heck couldn't walk, not on these feet over a mile one way, d) Rob was worried about his upcoming checkride

**TODAY**, everyone wish him well

and didn't want to drive me over for a probably-fruitless search with no GPS receiver. I looked at the listing and saw that one person who had found thirteen hundred caches had failed to find it. Me with no GPSr, in the dark -- no way. I sighed and went to sleep.

Well, this morning I headed over to the drugstore for my latest prescription. You know you're pretty @#$! up when you buy one of those little pill-minders with slots for "morning", "noon" etc and your meds don't fit in the boxes. (Or else I'm taking way too many vities.) After I got my prescription I thought what the heck, I'll at least drive by the place where the X showed this geocache. It's right by the drugstore. Why not?

I saw a guy in a blue truck pull up to a very undesirable parking space just where I was aiming. Darn. I pulled behind the drugstore and made a U-turn. By the time I came back around, he was standing in the parking lot with his GPS receiver in his hand, looking intently at it. He looked up when he saw me and I made a hand signal through the windshield: ME TOO (point to self, 2 fingers). He grinned.

If no one had found it earlier that morning, he'll probably be first. I half wonder if I should have asked to tag along with him so he could log the find and I could drop off my travel bug. :)

Comments

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

You know you're pretty @#$! up when you buy one of those little pill-minders with slots for "morning", "noon" etc and your meds don't fit in the boxes.

Ours just have one for each day, and mine is pretty full from just supplements (fortunately, I'm not currently taking any medications for anything chronic), but I've seen those - my dad uses one.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'd NEVER fit in one that has a slot for each day. My meds, vities, and supplements for a whole day don't even fit in a film canister. (Glucosamine/chondroitin is a volume hog, as is flaxseed oil.)

I've been using a little formed-plastic tray I stole from a small box of chocolates. I do like the little covers that snap closed, though. That lets me dump a pile out into my hand without disturbing other piles. Very convenient.

Gah, it's true. I'm sixty.

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Gah, it's true. I'm sixty.

Have you ever tried this Real Age (http://www.realage.com/) test? At 39, it told me I was 34.

he was standing in the parking lot with his GPS receiver in his hand, looking intently at it

Euphemism? ;-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

It asks for an e-mail address, claiming that it will neither send mail without my permission nor sell the address. However, it won't accept a fake. Um, sure, I really believe a site who says it won't use the address but refuses to proceed without one! Oh well - I know my real age anyway. Somewhere in the sixties.

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Ah, yeah, I forgot about that. I have it directed to my Yahoo! e-mail, which is where I send most stuff like that, as most of what I get there is spam anyway. Shame - the questions on the test are pretty throrough, but I don't blame you at all for not doing it.

[genderfur.livejournal.com]

Bean uses the kind with slots for times. I use one of the GINORMOUS ones, that just has a box for each day, and I dump it out in my hand, poke around until I find the ones I need now (morning, afternoon, night), and put the rest back.

It worked okay until I got put on supplements that come in big gelcaps, and I have to take, um, 6+4+~4+~4 = 14 or so per day. Plus vitamins and prescription drugs. Now I take the morning doses, and then refill the box with the later doses. Oy, I'll be glad when I've healed my adrenal system.

And the click-closed lids are nice. But they *do* open if you drop the whole thing on the floor....

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've got 15 large things (gluc/chondroitin, big gelcaps, MSM) and 6 medium-sized caplets (stinging nettle) and 2 slightly smaller caplets (NSAID). My "morning" takes up two slots on the morning/noon/evening/night box! :-)

Oo, thanks for the warning -- I'll try to avoid dropping it. That'd be a mess.

[sunnydale47.livejournal.com]

Glucosamine/chondroitin is a volume hog, as is flaxseed oil.

I use the MoveFree Triple Strength (http://www.schiffvitamins.com/productsearch_results.asp?p=175) so I only have to take two pills a day. It's not that much more expensive when you figure the daily cost. The local supermarket chain puts them on half-price special every so often, and at that price the brand name is very cost-effective.

Do you put the flaxseed capsules in your pillbox each day? I had to stop taking it because it has to be refrigerated, and I could never remember to take them. I have two enormous weekly organizer boxes (http://www.harriscomm.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=17523) that I fill every two weeks, and I couldn't put the flaxseed in because it would go bad sitting around that long. Now I sprinkle a couple tablespoons of crushed flaxseed on my cereal every morning instead. It's delicious and I get the same benefit (plus the fiber).

Gah, it's true. I'm sixty.

Then what does that make me?!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, last time I priced triple-strength I couldn't sit around and wait for a sale 'cause I was out. My next bottle is triple strength. :)

I also take extra.

I fill the pillbox each day. My pillbox is only one day big. But I'm bad about refrigerating that stuff. :-(

You're, uh, fifty-nine?? I actually don't know how old you are!