Ahhhh, June. A crappy month for geocacing eh!?! Only 30 days. Everything is covered in poison ivy. Chiggers and ticks and no-seeums are in competition with the 41 genera of mosquitos for your blood. Winter has started in South Africa. Generally a depressing month if you are a geocacher. Here in the northern hemisphere, the days are longer, which means it is light out longer, which just takes all of the challenge out of finding caches in the dark. Bummer.
Well cheer up poor cacher! We're here for you. Come on out and get a hug! Maybe NCP will bring more of his FTF (First-to-Ferment) homebrew to this one! We will uplift your spirits, or hoist flagons of NCP's spirits, or maybe just summon spirits of geocaching past!!! Maybe we can have a geocaching seance! Maybe Edgar Allen Poe will show up and explain all the semi-colon references! (CALM DOWN ZEKE!!!)
OK, OK, here's the dope:
The Carroll County Caching Fellowship (C3F) (what the heck is that?!?) cordially invites you to enjoy the pleasures of the social side of the geocaching hobby! Come on out and meet fellow cachers, share stories of your trials and tribulations (or Trials and Tubulations!) in searching for that elusive hide, and swap travel bugs and geocoins. Here's a chance for you to experience the part of the hobby that doesn't feature poison ivy, ticks, mosquitos, leeches, cockleburs, beggar's lice, thorns or greenbriar! Instead, come observe the oddities of human behavior as your fellow cachers wander 'round the parking lot scribbling down codes from trackable vehicles, shooting photos of each other's nametags, and generally examining each other closely to insure they have not missed a trackable t-shirt or necklace! Hear tales of DNF woe (bring extra kleenex, would ya'?). Hear tales of FTF triumph (bring extra champagne will ya'?).
Regular attendees at this monthly event include some truly stellar cachers from our local area, who are filled with caching wisdom, friendly, and eager to share their experience and help answer questions if you need help (Oh....that's what the C3F is!). We have master puzzle cachers, master woodsmen, geotrail kings and queens, prolific cachers, and once-in-a-whilers. We have Rogi! We have bugs! We have way too much hype and excitement!
But beyond all that, with all sincerity, we have a tremendous group of regular attendees who are always looking for ways to give back to the geocaching community, and are truly a pleasure to be around.
Makes you all weepy, don't it? Ok let's get back to being silly!
Hey, speaking of JUNE, since a lot of you are puzzle cachers, puzzle this:
No months start on the same day of the week of June in common or leap years. This month and May are the only two months to have this property. June ends on the same day of the week as March in all years. In all years, June starts on the same day of the week as February of the following year, in years immediately before common years, June starts the same day of the week as March and November of the following year, in years immediately before leap years, June starts on the same day of the week as August of the following year. In years immediately before common years, June ends on the same day of the week as August and November of the following year and in years immediately before leap years, June ends on the same day of the week as May of the following year. In common years, June starts on the same day of the week as September and December of the previous year while in leap years, June starts on the same day of the week as April and July of the previous year. In common years, June finishes on the same day of the week as September of the previous year while in leap years, June finishes on the same day of the week as April and December of the previous year.
Whoa. Did you feel that pass through your brain?!? WELL THAT'S WHAT IT FEELS LIKE WHEN WE TRY TO SOLVE YOUR PUZZLES!!! Hope you were takin' notes, there's gonna be a quiz ya' know!
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THE GOVERNMENT OF ELDERSBURG INTERUPTS THIS ANNNOUNCEMENT TO INFORM YOU THAT THIS EVENT HAS BEEN KNOWN TO CAUSE THE SPREAD OF THE ZTB VIRUS. PARTICIPANTS MAY BE EXPOSED TO MORBID HUMOR, EDGAR ALLEN POE REFERENCES, AND SUBTLE, SUBLIMINAL AFFECTS WHICH MAY CAUSE THE DESIRE TO EAT SPAM. ATTENDENCE OF THIS EVENT MAY RESULT IN, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO SHAMBLING, DROOLING, MOANING, A CRAVING FOR SWEETBREADS, REALITY ALTERING PERCEPTIONS, AND A SERIUOSULY UNPLEASANT AND PERSISTENT BODY ODOR.
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Bah. Pesky government weenies. That's a bunch of malarkey! There IS NO GOVERNMENT in Eldersburg. It is just a census designated place (CDP), whatever that means. Come on out, it'll be just fine!
A new feature for 2014 will be geocaching crash courses. At the beginning of each session, we'll conduct a ten minute crash course in some aspect of geocaching, just to get the juices flowing and the conversations started. Hey, did you know you can request future topics? This month's topic is the chemistry of geocaching. Well, that should be interesting. Sopunds like a real yawnfest. You can request topics you know. Thta way you might not be subjected to whatever bizarro topics like this one that Zekester cooks up in his secret lab in the basement.
Be sure to ask Zekester what "Be the Bug" means! No, it is not a virus!!!
Also, there are a number of caches nearby in Eldersburg, be sure to check them out! Rumor has it ther may be a new one....might even be a puzzle cache......
For whom: This event is for YOU!!! Regardless of whether you have found a handful of caches or thousands of them, or you just have a burgeoning interest, all are welcome! We don't bite (well our zombies do, but we don't) , we're really nice! Honest! Ask anyone!
When? 6:00PM to 8:00PM, on Tuesday, 18 MAR 2014. Sadly, the third tuesday this month fell after the Ides, but all are encouraged to wear togas anyway!
Where? Panera Bread, 6300 Georgetown Boulevard, Eldersburg, Maryland (or just use the convenient coordinates posted above!).
Why? Have dinner. Meet a cacher. Tell a tale. Trade a coin or travel bug. Meet Rogi! Find out what "Be the Bug" means!
This month's raffle features stuff, things and some of THOSE!!!!! By the way, thanks to a number of regular attendees who have contributed to the ever growing list of materials raffled off!
If you pick up a travel bug, please make sure that make sure you log it out so it doesn't show up in the event list.