With such a cute name George Curious, how could I resest hunting this cache down!
Well, after watching this video you’ll agree that maybe I should have done this one on a different day. I actually picked this cache because it had pretty much guaranteed me a nice 3 mile hike and excercise is certainly something I can use!
It started off very well on our Rail to Trails network and was only about a thenth of a mile off the main trail, it should have been reasonably easy.
Not even half way up though I realized I didn’t have my cell phone with me anymore. I know I left a twitter message when I started but couldn’t remember if that was from the car or en route. The more I walked the more I belived it fell out of my pocket and that pretty much occupied my mind.
When I got to the location it was very uncomfortable. The nice spring I was looking for had apparantly turned into a tick infested pool of stagnent water. I looked but honestly between being bummed about my phone and being eaten alive by who knows what, my heart just wasn’t into it. So I wrapped up and headed back to the car hoping to find my phone along the way.. which I didn’t
When I got home my house phone was ringing.. caller ID said it was me!!! “Hello? You found my phone!!!!?” Turns out a homeless man was on the trail with his bicycle travelling back to the homeless shelter when he found my phone. I was saavy enough to look at the address book and call the entry labeled “home” and ta da!!!! So I drove to the shelter to retrieve my phone and give him a nice little reward which I think he really appreciated.
Looks like a little buddhism at work here, turning the poison of an uncomfortable treck through the woods into medicine by exchange goodwill with someone less fortunate. NMRK
The World Tribune, a weekly newspaper put out by the lay Buddhist organization the Sokka Gakkai recently published an exerpt from “A Youthful Diary” – The diary of young Daisaku Ikeda, the SGI’s 3rd president, my mentor.
On Saturyda May 13, 1950 part of his entry reads… “Am I tired from all our struggles? My physical condition is extremely bad. Shall a disciple of Nichiren Daishonin be defeated? Never! Burn with great conviction! Faith, arise!..
Points to remember from today on: 1) Study Buddhism, 2) Cut down on expenses and 3) Live productively.”
Though these are points I do and have been practicing, after a while our convictions need to be renewed. Reading that exerpt has inspired me to add these points to my 43things.com and renew my efforts.
What a beautiful day for geocaching, but let me tell you it didn’t start off so well. Eager to hit the road and made a quick dash to pick up Dan and we proceeded to use a strip mall parking lot as a staging area to load up on fresh batteries and get all our coordinates programmed. So as I put batteries in my 10-year old GPS unit I notice they weren’t quite snug. Now this is a problem I’ve had with it for a while now and if the battery isn’t tight it would shut itself off. So as I’ve done countless times before I reformed the retainer clip that holds the batteries. Well.. It was reformed just one to many times and it busted.
I’m testing out a new theme and before I decide to keep it I have to make sure it works so here I am writng this silly test message that will scatter itself all across the internet and get indexed on countless search engines which I’ll totally forget about for year and years until one day a snot nosed script kiddie is going to say say hey mister have you ever thought about using punctuations in your postings it really makes it more readable to which I will reply by finally deleting this post and the comment.
It’s only a tiny step, but this morning I faught an incredible urge to grab a breakfast at McDonalds.
I also brought some bottle water with me in an effort to drink less coffee.. not only to wein off of caffiene, but since I take my coffee with cream (fat & calories) I’d really be better off avoiding it all together.
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