[Az-Geocaching] Travel Bugs are a major P.I.T.A!!!!!!

[Brian Casteel]

I've noticed a little delay in the propagation of data, especially with 
TBs lately, so just give things a little time and it'll be all good.

Brian
Team A.I.

Roping The Wind wrote:
> The subject says it all... I am OFFICIALLY done with Travel bugs. They are a 
> pain in the you know what!... and you do know what, dont you?! If you dont, 
> well I do.. ask me sometime! :)
>
> Anyways, I picked up 3 travel bugs from the Tucson Travel Bug mansion. I 
> dropped 3 off into it. First off, the geocaching.com site is incredibly slow 
> this morning.. which is typical for a Sunday for some reason. After logging 
> some in.. and after over an hour of dealing with the slow site... I finally 
> completed a few of the 6 TB transaction. But, some of the bugs are still 
> showing up in my inventory although they also show up in a cache now. So I 
> tried again and again. Finally, it seemed to work and now I have multiple 
> logs for the same TB. Although, do to the slow gc.com site.... I am still 
> not able to complete a couple of TB movements.
>
> So anyways.... 3 of those TB's I put into the campout event cache.... if 
> anyone picks up one of these TB's or any of the TB's I still have not 
> completed transactions with... please be patient and wait for me to complete 
> the movement of the TB before 'taking it from me' or from the cache, 
> whatever. These 6 TB's here are:
>
> Tizzy the Fish
> ATVx3
> Golden Spike
> Billiard ball #13
> Billiard ball #1
> Tee It Up
>
> ATVx3, Tizzy the Fish and Tee it Up are supposed to be dropped into the 
> Tucson TB Mansion. The other 3 are supposed to end up in the campout event 
> cache. I will try later on today to complete the transactions. But I am not 
> going to bother with geocaching.com right now as it is SO slow. So maybe 
> later on today.. it will be working fine again and I will be able to finish 
> this.
>
> These TB's are such a PITA. I have had issues in the past were someone 
> 'grabbed it' from me before I could properly log it into or out of a 
> cache... since we dont all have a computer at our side 24/7, it isnt always 
> possible to log finds and TB's for a few hours or even a day or two if on 
> vacation.  Then, I go to log the TB and find out it isnt in my possession.. 
> even though it was... because someone 'grabbed it' from me. Then you have to 
> 'steal' it back from them (which I think is incredibly rude) and show my 
> movement of the bug. Then, they have to realize it was taken from them for 
> them to properly complete the movement again.
>
> Anyways, I dont normally take TB's regularly anymore... but happened to do 
> the Tucson TB Mansion cache yesterday and I still had 3 bugs in my 
> possession... so dropped them off and figured I would take 3 of them to the 
> event cache. Big mistake. Anyways, whats worse.. the TB owner of the 3 TB's 
> I took to the event cache, didnt want them placed in event caches! Oops. Oh 
> well. Whats done is done... and I am officially thru with dealing with 
> TB's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)
>
> Scott
> Team Ropingthewind
>
>
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