No Time, No Cache! Locationless, Locationless, Locationless
By
Snuva on 26-Oct-05. Waypoint GA0236
Cache Details
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Type: | Locationless |
Container: | Other |
Proximity: | 161m |
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Description
Spent a day doing all those miscellaneous things that you usually put aside for caching? Are you proud of yourself - is your family happy to see you? Then have a brag and log a DNF!!!
Snuva has kept her slaves busy lately doing tedious but essential work around her palace. We'd all much rather be geocaching, but what's a princess to do? The build-up of weeds, the dodgy painting, and the build-up of 'stuff' just can't wait wany longer! I'm too embarassed to have my admirers over to visit!
So while waiting for the slaves to finish their tasks, and between dreaming of all the caches she'd like to be able to find or hide, Snuva dreamed up the idea for a non-cache that lets us log a DNF but lets everyone know it wasn't laziness that kept us from caching, but activity we've been putting off for caching. (It might also serve to help explain while a cacher 'drops off the scene' for a while.)
Activites/achievements that qualify you to log a DNF on this non-cache would be things such as gardening, painting, giving birth to new cachers, spring cleaning, visiting your mother, etc. Activites that do no qualify would be planning a new cache (other than just in your mind while gardening, etc), scoping out locations, purchasing swaps, or working on puzzle caches as these are caching related activities.
Please note that 'Found' logs are NOT allowed on this non-cache; the point is that you were NOT caching, so logging it as a find would be inappropriate. Please also note that you should not log this if you log another cache on GCA or GC on that day. I encourage waypoints for your log, as well as photos of your work. If the waypoint is at your house or a relative's house and you don't want to publish your exact coordinates here, round them so there is at list a waypoint in the general area (then you can at least play with your GPSr or mapping software for that!)
I don't expect everyone to like the idea of this non-cache, but it's been in the back of my mind for a while and when mentioning it to another cacher they actually liked the idea - so if it only exists long enough for me to not log it, that's fine with me.
Logs
I'm assuming visiting my dZ page to collect the usual daily points, the daily new forum post check, and reading found logs on my jigsaw virtual caches does not disqualify me.
So what was I doing that kept me from any other geocaching related activity yesterday? Binge watching the 10 Star Wars movies in chronological order. I only got through 5 yesterday though. 3 more today. I'm getting sick of the saying "I've got a bad feeling about this". It was a pleasant surprise to hear "I've got a really good feeling about this" in Solo. hahaha
Thanks for nothing
Too much else got in the way
And for my stupidity I have to pay
With broken shoulder I can’t play
I’ll have to try another day
One of those days where life gets in the way of fun.
Having had a lot of work done around the property lately, painting, asbestos removal, new eaves, gutters, down pipes, doors, windows, carpet...
Much of our stuff was stored in a 20' container in the driveway.
All back inside the house now. Time to get some order to things.
Crystal unwrapped and replaced in cabinets, coat hooks screwed to doors, handles replaced on cupboards, boxes and bags unpacked.
On top of all this we have roadside rubbish removal in two weeks so all the unwanted items were listed on giveaway sites on fb or stored ready to go out for the garbos.
It will be good to go caching just to relax a bit.
Thanks for nothing Snuva.
For I new job (well a transfer to another company but might as well be a new job – throng in the deep in – sink or swim ((head is just above the water ))
Then asked to do extra days – you do it BUT no time for caching .
That’s enough – a DNF for me
Me: "Ok, time to ride home, catch up on Study and then grab a cache or two!"
Colleague: "uh, andrewbt, we have a bit of a problem, can you help"
Me: "okay.."
*me at 04:00* - Welp, too cold to ride home, tired too. I'll sleep on floor
Wednesday 3/5/2017: 13:30
Me: "Welp I'm gonna go home now.. try catch up on study. Find some caches..."
Working in IT sucks sometimes....
Had fully intended to go find "Wellington Peaks C" by DDTs today but a phone call from the Royal Hobart Hospital meant that had to be put off in order to retrieve my Aunt who had been a patient in the Cardio Ward for the last week and bring her back to Huonville.
Five hours after getting there, we finally left the place; me feeling totally frustrated with the whole procedure.
I'd have sooner been walking the tracks for five hours instead of pacing the floors of the Royal!!!!
This is my second log for this cache, the last made as a DNF on the 1st Dec 2009 when my conscience (I have got one sometimes) got the better of me and I mowed my lawns and tidied my pad.
So, in my "frustrated" state I'm doing it again, this cache I mean; but will claim a find instead of a DNF! A find that isn't a find could still be a find not found! That's what I got today!!
Hope this makes sense and thanks for the cache
Cheers OldSaint.
I dont think i've got the time.
I was planning to do a multi yesterday, but, i had to run off to rovers/scouts early.
I was going to checkup on one cache of mine, but it got dark. (Daylight savings? Dont gooo!!)
I was going to find a drive-by trig on the weekend, but i missed the turnoff. And my car-gps was yelling at me.
I was going to attempt (again, most likely my 8th attempt?) to find my nearest unfound (which is, oh, i dunno not even a km away!) but i couldnt find my gps (note to self: next time, check other bag)
I was going to attempt a really easy cache, that was near a place where i was stuck at on the weekend with scouts..but free time? scouts? Are you kidding me?
I was going to find a driveby that was near my friend's house (on the side of town i never frequent!) but...it suddenly appeared to be 1am at night. I believe a guy was murdered a couple of streets away. And some chick allegedly got abducted a couple of streets away too. (Ah, northern canberra..)
Yep. I just dont have the time.
The picnic happened to be, oh, where one of my own caches was located.
i was going to run away and do some maintanance (in my defence, it was raining before, and several people said there were snakes nearby, and i wanted to check it out!) but i didnt.
It was the first day I hadn't gone caching in a long while. My 'streak' of nearly two months was finished . . .
Glad to have the opportunity to get some credit here . . .
Even if it's with a DNF!
But this weekend (A Thee day weekend & All) It is the GLW & a neice's Birthday & with my leg still hurting im still not walking very far.
So no caching for my.
Geez i hate Dumb Car drivers.
Only one thumb because we hate digging digging.
Every Saturday.....this year from April 12th to August 30
Here's the coordinates of DNF and times for July 5th
9:00am DNF - S 43°52.331 E147°19.347
10:00am DNF - S 42°49.830 E147°15.151
10:30am DNF - S 42°54.425 E147°19.703
and even sometimes S 42°58.946 E147°17.610
First three DNF's should be easy to work out, but number 4 is a little bit trickier......
TFTH!
Given that today was Mother's Day, I thought it best to get my priorities straight. I managed to fight the urge to suggest that we grab any of the 6 or so caches that I hadn't already found on the way to the popular national park where we had BBQ lunch, some 70km away from home.
As it happens, there aren't any caches in the aforementioned national park - or at least there aren't yet! I'm quite surprised that it remains cacheless, but at least that helped me to abstain from caching today! I even managed to resist the urge to place an opportunistic hide while we were there.
Thanks for the non-cache!! Let's party like it's not 1999!!
Anyway, I'm not logging this one as a DNF at the moment because I've been planning to do this one as my 50th unique DNF for ages. I know I'm close, but I haven't even had time lately to check my current stats! D'oh! Not even enough time for a DNF!
You know it has been a while when you go to turn on your GPS, that you "just" put freshly charged batteries in, and it is as dead as a dodo! And the reason I went to turn it on wasn't to seek a cache even! (OK, so I turned it on cos there's some wierd stuff going on in my brain, but thats another story...) So thank you Snuva for this liberating opportunity: "I am SG-3, and I haven't gone caching!"
Question: Can you log a DNF more than once on this one?
Cheers everyone!
Even worse than that, originally SWMBO had talked of going to Lane Pool Reserve near Dwellingup for our trip, which would have suited me fine. It's only 90 CroKs from home, with a possible FTF in close proximity and 13 caches within 20 CroKs, 20 caches and a second possible FTF within 50 CroKs.
For reasons not fathomable to man, she changed her mind and decided on Grimwade, an extra couple of hundred road kilometres from home, with only two caches 30 CroKs and 43 CroKs away for me to seek. I was fortunate to also be able to log GA0790 Native Fauna Naming Fun by SUBYDAZZ, by pure chance an opportunity for that was within 30 metres of the caravan.
Thanks to Snuva for the non-hunt.
Happy caching,
Keith (the Wandering part of WanderingAus)
I hereby log this DNF because of all the tempting caches i had to drive past (most of which were within 100m) on my recient re-location from Melbourne to Katherine NT. I did the first stage with a muggle and while collecting a few in the beginning, he made it very clear that there were going to be no more caches! Weep Weep... i DNF oh so many caches between Melbourne and Adelaide!
TFTDNF
See picture attached !
This time it hit the hard Australian street ground and started to do nothing anymore...
Shuting it off meant shuting it off forever.
Glad that there is even a cache for the time without a GPS. With the coords from above no wonder that I couldn't find it.
TFTC Alpini
proud PLG member
Then took one daughter out for a hit of tennis.
Then other daughter had to go to calisthenics practice.
No time for caching for me.
Glenn
So did I find this cache or did I not is my relative Arthur or actually Martha?
Was I coming or going, was I heading out to cache, or heading in with a DNF?... mmmm....
I'm standing out front of my place when it dawns on me.
WRONG CONTINENT!
*cries*
http://geocaching.com.au/cache/gc1185q
so missed out on a great weeked
The Royal Easer Show... With a 3 Year old
What a day, excelent time had by all, and so many geocaches nearby! and no GPS or permission to leave the fairgronds to hunt them.
SO this is a perfect opportunity to log a DNF on this one... Images soon.
ohhh i can hear it on the roof. very heavy!!!
Had not actually seen this page, but the waypoint showed up on the GPS as we were driving thru Glenorchy so we thought we might try and find it. Thought it may be along the bike track but it wasnt and we soon found ourselves driving up behind empty warehouses and did see some cool stuff but we were sure we werent supposed to be there... Coordinates sent us down a small laneway between two buildings, but we couldnt find anything, and now we know why!!
Was a cool place to go and explore anyhow, if you like urban exploration
Maffu
Maffu
Team Rabble
But on the flip side it means that there is another caching holiday on the cards for Mr CP, Mrs CP and Piglet. West Coast, here we come!!!
They include: On the Riviera, Hospital Walk, Water Torture, On a clear day, I can see it all from here, Surfs up, Barrenjoey, Stewarts Lights, Looking West, Tumbledown Dick, Hill over the back fence, Ruff and Tuff, Ryland Riddle, ZFX#3: On the Edge, Truck Stop, Old Man Banksia, Creek Below and One Mans Trash.
What a wasted Day!! (for caches)
TFTC. TNLNSL.
Roostaman
I was in Melbourne for the day - staying at a friends house overnight (elderly - can't just duck out in the evening) and had between 9.30am and about 6pm out and about in metro melbourne to do what ever we wanted.
The kids wanted to go to the museum, I wanted to go caching. Struck a deal - i'll take you to the museum, I get to do caches too. We all agreed and off we set.
We did the art gallery (their idea), the city loop train, the museum and went to see Narnia. We lost stuff left right and centre, but got it all back incredibly, except for one bottle of drink which was incidentally the cheapest thing we lost all day.
On meeting with my friend for dinner I realised that I had been out all day with the kids, with GPS & PDA in hand and had not actually sought a cache all day! And I don't get to Melbourne all that often...
Just plain embarassed.
Before
After
Believe it or not, this took days and days! Should look even better once the things that were severely pruned back recover a little - as long as the slaves keep the weeds at bay (don't hold your breath. . .).
We are logging another DNF as Mrs CP and Piglet decided to get sick with a gastric bug, and while they were feeling sorry for themselves, Mr CP said (in his best Croc. Dundee voice) "That's not sick - THIS is sick...." and proceeded to get a nasty case of lymphadenitis which trumped their case of the gastric flu, and will leave him house-bound for some days to come, and on some VERY strong antibiotics.
It is a peculiar kind of torture being this sick and watching all these new caches come up and not being able to do anything about them. And seeing geocoins and jeeps waiting to be picked up, and instead tourists get them! Arghhhh!!
But, alas, I cannot.....
You see, my eTrex Venture has been over worked, the poor little thing, it decided to have a bit of a breakdown. So, you see, my GPS has gone to a very special place for a holiday, yep, gone to the northern island to visit it's relatives at the Garmin authorised service centre.
So, it'll be a couple more weeks before I can get back out on the trails again enjoying the hunt, I guess I'll just have to keep myself busy playing with the kids, doing housework, playing solitaire and watching scrubs. *sigh*
At least I get to log this non-cache
Cheers,
ThatGuy
Coords are near her place but rounded off!
It's the 17th of November. I haven't had a cache in 18 days. There was an online event, but it's just not the same, it's not real man, it's not real... 18 days man.... 18!
They said I'd be fine, just spend the weekend visiting and gardening, it'll take your mind off it. But they don't know what it's like, they don't know...
I can't sleep, I can't eat, I can't walk down the street because Chickenfeed calls to me. The big yellow bird... man he calls to me from across the street, he says "we've got new toys, they're great for swaps", and he says "we've got Sistemas at half the supermarket price"... I know it's not true, but I still want to go in...
We've had to take all the tupperware out of the kitchen. On Monday (I was suffering bad then, the weekend in the garden just didn't work, and I knew I had to see it out at least another 5 days), I emptied the sugar container and two plastic fruit containers, put all the keys in the house in them and hid them in the backyard (I didn't know what I was doing... I still can't find the shed key, I think I might have made a magneto micro too)...
It's getting worse. I can't stop shaking. I have to delete eevveerryy sseeccoonndd key I type. Some people say I'm temperamental too. I think that's because of what happened with the kid down the street. It's not his fault, he was only playing with a bouncy ball. It rolled in front of me, and before I knew it I was chasing him down the street yelling "I'll swap you for an army man".
They said logging this cache might help me. I dont know though man. Couldn't someone set me up with a hit? It doesn't have to be spectacular, but if I don't see a plastic container with paint flaking off it soon I don't know what I'll do! I can't handle it anymore man... I don't wanna wake up in a cold sweat screaming "TNLN TNLN TNLN" again... it's wierd... and it freaks out the people I work with...
Writing this log hasn't helped. They said it would.... but they lied... man.... it's only 1 day until the weekend, then I can score a cache... a pretty green one, with a roller-stamper...
... in the meantime I'm off to make a cup of tea and see if I can wait it out. I just have to find all the teabags first. Someone put them all in film canisters and hid them...
Bye.
(The Captain wishes to apologise for The Cachemonkey, The Boss is restraining him now. He hopes he recovers. He also says thanks to Snuva for this great new cache idea. Keep 'em coming...)
Had the perfect experience for this cache tonight! Took a sistema full of goodies up to constable creek to hide at Leda falls...one of St Helens' totally unknown and beautiful waterfalls. The creekbed that I was told would be semi-dry and we could walk up by a friendly local was flooded! So myself, Digger, Junior Tagalong and Mrs Aloysius had to wade in waste deep water for about 2kms. When the clock struck 1830hrs and the falls were still not in sight we decided it was prolly best to turn back before we were stuck waste deep in a river in the dark! So sistema, digicam, dog, wife and junior in tow I waded back to car and into town for fish and chips. Time got in the way of this one but IT WILL HAPPEN!!!
Also on a funy note when i went up to Constable Creek yesterday to scope out whether the walk was possible or not i got Cecil the cachemobile bogged and had to walk an hour and a half back into town to get a tow out....so this cache really has it in for me!
Thought I would try some gardening, but while I was thinking about it I fell asleep. Someone who had better be nameless decided to take a picture, so here I am logging a DNF for the day.
Where do I start...hmmm...well I can only log a DNF for myself, so Mr CP and Piglet can do their own logs.
I have not been caching as I have a broken left hind trotter. My garden is an absolute travesty, and will have me working for the next year to catch up. Luckily, I am not that motivated, so I will be caching again as soon as the trotter heals. In the meantime, I will be making phone calls to friends and family that thought I had run away with the circus, vacuuming, catching up on clothes washing and spending time with my poor unloved cat - he has taken to ambushing me in the bathroom for some 'quality' time. Eewwww.