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After not taking my daily walk for a while I finally set to one of our local greenways and my has the weather changed since I was last out!   The car was so nice and cozy, how could it be so cold outside?  I had remembered that I had put a coat in my car for emergancies so I figured I could just throw that on…  well.. let’s just say it appears that one of my cats got it and it’s going into the dumpter now.  So.. long story short I did have an extra sweatshirt with me, doubled it up and managed to get a little over a mile in anyhow.  Determination!!!

So.. apparently it’s getting a little cooler.. I think I see a trend here.. someone tell Mr. Gore please!  Anyways…  I took my walk today somewhere much warmer, my local Target.  I was talking to my virtual wife in thesimsonline.com about how I needed a new jacket and breifly described what I was looking for.  Wouldn’t you know in seconds she shot back a link to a jacket I loved!!!  (She’s a smart girl, my Paulina is.)  It’s a Mossimo Military Jacket in Black.  The fit was just right and no gaudy designer labels and lots of pockets for all my gadgets!  Of course since I was going to call this little adventure my power walk (yea I know, that’s a stretch) I had to go up and down every isle of the store (and I think security was following me), but while I was doing my laps I came across another item I’ve been wanting for a long time.. a walking stick!!

Click here for my full size image posing with my new toys.

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.

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