Richard & Misti's Blog

Listened to an Erasure album that I hadn’t heard of or seen before, “Erasure” (self-titled), which is odd because I used to collect Erasure albums back in the day (the ’80s), but I stopped before this album came out in 1995. Usually self-titled albums are a group’s premiere album, but not so in this [...]

I found it slightly ironic that updating Adobe Reader from 6.0.1 to 6.0.2 works easily on Win98, but isn’t so easy on WinXP. In 98, you just click on help and ‘check for updates’, which finds the 6.0.2 update available. In XP, it doesn’t find the update, so you have to manually go [...]

Found Katey’s Cute Cache today. Swans are huge compared to geese, and I saw a lobster there in the lake, to boot (ok, it was probably a crayfish). Interesting to note that virus-laden images might not necessarily be just TIFFs or JPEGs, but might possibly be found as GIFs, too.
I’ve been predicting several [...]

Watched another film starring Shirley MacLaine last night, entitled “The Dress Code” (Shirley MacLaine, Jennifer Tilly, Gary Sinise, Kathy Bates) on DVD. Wow, super lame…
Did a little impromptu caching yesterday and nabbed the following caches:
Derby Dam Cache“SWINGING BRIDGE”Flyin’ CacheCalifornia Emigrant Trail“MY PET”
but we’re still unable to find the second leg of the goofy cache [...]

Well, it turns out I was right on the whole ‘false positive’ thing with the new Bloodhound.Exploit.14. As it turns out, however, it really does appear that a problem has been identified with not only JPEG images, but also with TIFF images, such that both image formats could be used to transmit viruses. [...]

After looking into Wil Wheaton’s geocaching stats (user name ‘GroundskeeperWillie‘), however, it appears that he’s only found 9 caches to date, and it’s been awhile since his last one. Maybe the allure of Lake Tahoe and it’s many beautiful caches will draw him out to do some more… (hint hint)   =)
Misti made another [...]

I found out today that Wil Wheaton goes geocaching, too.   =)
Listened to some more strange CDs today, including “The Hit Sound of Xavier Cugat & His Orchestra” by Xavier Cugat (Charro’s former husband), “In Blue” by The Corrs, and “Is This Desire?” by P J Harvey [sic], and “Reptile” by Eric Clapton.
Watched “Amelia’s Moving [...]

Had a flat tire twice, two days in a row. Had the flat “fixed” at Tires Plus. Took it back again the next day to have it “fixed” again (the same tire). What a pain. I love changing tires.
Listened to several “new” CDs at work today, including “Brighten the Corners” by [...]

Did a little geocaching yesterday and found both the ‘Coyote’s by the highway cache‘ and ‘Another Park Cache‘, as well as the first leg of the ‘All in all it’s just another’ multicache, and the ‘I-80 RallyBug‘ travel bug. We also watched “The Rainbow Fish also features Dazzle The Dinosaur” [sic] on VHS, based [...]

Got our tires rotated yesterday at Tires Plus. Read an interesting article there about how Bose revolutionized the shock absorber (yes, the audio speaker company is now making car shock absorbers). Pretty cool idea in my book. Misti and the kids found the ‘Shelf Life‘ mystery cache today during lunchtime. Misti’s [...]

Had another wonderful supper last night, this time entitled “Old-Fashioned Pot Roast” (Great American Recipes, Group 6, Card 4). We enjoyed the ‘Kerry for Pez‘ site that Mike linked to. Good times.
Speaking of Mike, his new PUY page looks quite sharp, and I’m excited about this year’s ‘Fight for Nevada‘. [...]

I discovered this morning that a friend of mine, Femia Durosinmi, is on a reality TV show called The Benefactor (on ABC, Monday nights at 10 p.m.). How cool is that?
She’s famous now, and she’s in the running to win a cool $1,000,000.00. I hope she wins (and hope she sends me a [...]

Last night we briefly attended the Reno 3rd Ward choir social. We were finally able to find both the elusive “Blazerbood” cache last night, and the tricky “Double Diamond Devil” multicache today. Additionally, we also found the following caches today:
Bird’s Eye View!!Thunder MountainUnder Lock & Key
I tried a “Christopher’s Big Cherry” candy today. [...]

We enjoyed another great dinner last night, this time called “Maryland Fish Fillets” (Great American Recipes, Group 4, Card 1). Mmmm, broiled cheesy fish.   =)
We finished reading Esther (Hadassah) in the Old Testament a couple of nights ago. Both of us were glad we’d recently seen a movie about Queen [...]