Depends on whether or not you're buying. :) My wife nearly blowing up our house last week took money I had allocated to...nothing. The lesson learned is that when you come upstairs to an entire floor filled with natural gas, DO NOT make turning on a light switch that activates 4 incandescent bulbs, your first decision. That said, if I had the opportunity to do what you seem to be reading into, it would make a great birthday present *wink wink nudge nudge*. Brian Team A.I. -----Original Message----- From: az-geocaching-bounces@listserv.azgeocaching.com [mailto:az-geocaching-bounces@listserv.azgeocaching.com] On Behalf Of AZcachemeister@getnet.com Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 10:59 AM To: listserv@azgeocaching.com Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] New changes at Groundspeak HHMMMM? Did I read correctly between those lines? -- Sent from my Treo -----Original Message----- From: Brian Casteel Date: 5/18/06 9:32 To: listserv@azgeocaching.com Subj: Re: [Az-Geocaching] New changes at Groundspeak In a lot of cases, you just get lucky and find one with that mission. However, if you want to spend a little time doing so, you can do a search of caches in your area (found and not found) that contain TBs and look at their missions. If one of them has something to do with your trip and being able to fulfill the mission, by all means go for it. Other times, someone on the listserv will have a TB or 3 in their possession with a mission that fits your trip. Case in point: I have THE Moun10Tyke Geobash coin in my possession right now. The intent of the cachers who gave it to me is to have it travel around Eastern Montana a bit before heading to all points east on a race against Daddy's Moun10bike Geobash coin where the goal is Ohio before a return trip to WA, home of the Moun10* family. If the goal wasn't so specific, I'd fly it down to circulate in the hot zone before moving elsewhere. Brian Team A.I. _____ From: az-geocaching-bounces@listserv.azgeocaching.com [mailto:az-geocaching-bounces@listserv.azgeocaching.com] On Behalf Of Poulin, Mia Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 9:47 AM To: listserv@azgeocaching.com Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] New changes at Groundspeak We are new to this geocaching adventure. We love finding new places as much as our young kids (5 & 8) love finding the caches. We are traveling to San Diego this weekend to visit grandpa who has selected some geocaches based on places he wants to visit with the kids (beach, Sea World, etc.) How do we come across a travel bug that wants to hitch a ride to a new cache near the Pacific Ocean? TeamCARMa _____ From: az-geocaching-bounces@listserv.azgeocaching.com on behalf of ShadowAce Sent: Wed 5/17/2006 3:55 PM To: listserv@azgeocaching.com Subject: [Az-Geocaching] New changes at Groundspeak For those, like myself, who avoid the forums I noticed these two today and thought I would share: ------------ Regarding TB Logging ------------------ Lately there has been an increase in logging activity for Travel Bugs and Geocoins. Unfortunately many people were picking up and dropping these items into the same geocache so they could increase their find count or receive a new trackable icon in their profile. As a result we have created a new log type which also goes towards your profile count without causing unnecessary extra movements for the trackable item. The new log type is called "Discovered it" and can be used if you have the tracking number for the icon. Please use this if you have no plans to move the Travel Bug or geocoin to a new location. ------------ Regarding the changing of Names --------------- We're working on customizing an application for use with Geocaching.com that will require us to lock down the ability to change your username. As a result on May 15th we will be locking down the username change feature on the web site. The technical issue relates to a fundimental part of their application that stores usernames in the database outside of the account data. This means that if we did make username changes in our account database it would require a tremendous effort to automatically update the other system with the username change. Generally sites don't allow name changes like we've been allowing over the last 5 years, so we're moving towards the generally accepted standard for most web sites. It's an unfortunate change but necessary considering the importance of the new features. For those who just can't live without changing their usernames we'll do our best to come up with some tools to move your information over to a new username. You can already do adoptions to your new account but there is no current way to move other information like bookmark lists, premium memberships, or log entries. (UPDATED WITH) The lockdown has been changed to May 20, so you have a few more days to get your name changes in. --------------------------- That is all I have. :) ShadowAce DISCLAIMER: This message is confidential, intended only for the named recipient(s) and may contain information that is privileged or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient(s), you are notified that the dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you receive this message in error, or are not the named recipient(s), please notify the sender at either the e-mail address or by calling the telephone number associated with this transmission. Please delete this e-mail from your computer (or discard this fax). Thank You. ____________________________________________________________ Az-Geocaching mailing list listserv@azgeocaching.com To edit your setting, subscribe or unsubscribe visit: http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching Arizona's Geocaching Resource http://www.azgeocaching.com DISCLAIMER: This message is confidential, intended only for the named recipient(s) and may contain information that is privileged or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient(s), you are notified that the dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you receive this message in error, or are not the named recipient(s), please notify the sender at either the e-mail address or by calling the telephone number associated with this transmission. Please delete this e-mail from your computer (or discard this fax). Thank You.