"Geowoodstock IX"

I should be there but I am reconsidering the class I was going to teach

What's to consider?

The way people are getting lazy about their logs there is a good chance that all I am going to do is make a lot of enemies.

I'm sometimes lazy about our logs. If the cache is a typical light pole or just a random scattered cache without though why should I waste my time giving a long log? And isn't this game about FINDING the cache and not about becoming a prolific writer? Hmm I tend to keep my mouth shut because most people don't agree with me. Everyone plays the game how they want but a lot of people want to tell people how they want the game played.

There is no problem with short logs. The problem is people that only log with things like TFTC and the like. We now have one fellow in our area that logs by restating his caching name (like that is not already showing) and another that just hits the carriage return and never writes a darn thing.

I've posted just TFTC before. Usually it's either a very boring unoriginal hide or I'm on the trail and intend on editing it from home with a full size keyboard sometimes I forget to edit them.

So you are one of those people are you?

I guess I'm guilty as charged. If its a really good cache I make it a point to edit it. If it's one of numerous walmart lamp posts I figure why bother. They didn't put much thought into the lampskirt I'm not putting much thought into my reply. BTW THE GAME IS ABOUT FINDING THE CACHE NOT WRITING SKILLS

I kind of figure if the cache was worth my time to do the hider deserves at least a sentence or two and a lot more for a great cache.

And you would be right, but not every cache requires that, esp not lamp posts or other random ones placed for no reason or view. Besides I can't remember every cache when we go out and do multiples so only the ones that strike me as worthy or have something memorable like being well done deserve my time. If the placer wants better logs make a request for it and make better caches then.

my typical light poll log would be something like "Thanks for a quick cache and dash" A little more polite then TFTC but no real effort needed. My best day was 40 caches and I still managed to write something about all of them even if a couple might not have been a lot. In all the caches I have done I have only had one, one word log and that was to someone that was logging all there finds the same way.

Your essentially saying the same thing as TFTC and when did TFTC become rude? Is it something we shouldn't say anymore? Its part of the caching slang and again the game is about finding caches its not about writing. Nice written logs are nice but they are not a requirement to finding caches which is what the game is about. The word smiths are all trying to invoke their own rules to the game and if they don't stop it all my logs are going to start being TFTC, its a game and no where in the rules does it state you have to write anything to log a find. Groundspeak just recently took out unnecessary logging requirements but never included a word count or word tone requirement for logging a cache.

OK folks you know how Harold asked why I was thinking of not doing the class at geowoodstock - just look at the posts Amy and I have just been making and think about people that want to fight and not just talk

I'm not fighting Bruce, just because I don't share your view doesn't make it a fight. That's the problem when people bring politics into a hobby, those who try to get others to conform to their wishes start blaming the others who tend to not agree and calling them names or state that they are fighting. In an educated world, which I'm assuming you are from since you want these well written proses for finding a geocache, people are allowed to have differing opinions and that doesn't mean anyone is fighting or doesn't like someone.

TFYIA ( Thanks for your input Amy) Lol

YW (Your Welcome)

Ok heres a log for a typical Walmart lamppost hide....

We pulled close to the suspected lamppost, both Tom and I had our yellow pants and black shirts on so we could camo ourselves from the typical Walmart muggle. We parked so far back we had to use stealth to keep from getting muggled. A car came around the corner and we weren't near enough to the light post. Oh Sheet what should we do. I yelled "Hit the deck" to Tom thinking if we laid down right we may look like parking lot stripes. No matter how he tried Tom just wasn't fitting in as a parking lot stripe and an old lady mistaking him as a cart corral parked a cart up his arse. After I removed said cart we made the find to the usual film canister under the lamp skirt. After the hide was replaced I shoved Tom in the back of the geomobile because he couldn't sit right in the front seat. I debated taking him to the ER but he wouldn't have it. We will never be the same. Thank you so much for bringing us to walmart, if we wouldn't have had the mishap we did I may have stimulated the economy by shopping there.

I did not mean that you were fighting I meant that others would and they would love it too.

I've been trying to put in a good sentence or two. Ends up being a little short since I send in the log from the cache with my phone. The thing that I've noticed is the same copy and paste at the home computer for all of the caches they find for a day. That's another animal of contention.

I WANT LOGS LIKE THAT!