For a little over a week now I’ve been the proud owner of a handheld GPS – a Garmin eTrex Legend Cx to be specific. Last year’s birthday cash purchase was the well-used iPod 30GB Video with the goal of using it to jog (which I did), and this year’s purchase is in the hopes of geocaching and hiking during the spring.
The whole process goes back to my beerbistro dinner with Kip and Shaz last summer when Brent and his girlfriend, Jackie, came to visit from Moncton. During dinner Kip & Shaz mentioned geocaching and I had, sadly, never heard of it at that point. I was in love with the idea of it somewhere between the Belgian Frites and the trip to the Queen’s Quay LCBO.
Two times already I’ve attempted to find a geocache with poor results. The first time, the day after I got it, I tried to find Kip’s dad’s cache hidden in the old cemetary on Bolton’s north hill, but did so dressed in church clothes and black dress shoes on a snowy hill in the sub-freezing temperatures and quickly gave up. Again this weekend Paul and I tried to track one down near City Hall in Toronto but the overcast conditions seemed to wreak havoc on the GPS which directed us with incredible indecision. Hopefully I’ll get a chance to try it out a bit more in the near future, and perhaps use it for a pending drive to Buffalo.
During the guy weekend two weeks ago I cracked open my bottle of Unibroue Quelque Chose and warmed it up as instructed to serve up to the gang. Most loved it, and it was quite interesting. Mark in particular seemed to take to it so I’ve promised him a visit to Premier Gourmet to get some more.
Oh, and before I go – Blues for Pablo made their first unplugged recordings this weekend. Covers of “All the Right Reasons” by The Jayhawks and “Slow Burning Fire” by Skydiggers. They were passable with obvious work to be done, but to get to the point where we’re finally playing in unison, singing, and getting it to the form of 0s and 1s means we’re getting closer to having something posted on our horribly vacant MySpace page. ;)