3rd Tuesday, 3rd month, fourth year.
Okay, stick with us here, as there is a lot to cover. On this day, in 1413, Henry V became King of England. He later went on to a starring role in William Shakespeare's play of the same name, for which he will be remembered unto eternity for the famed St. Crispin's day speech given before the English, outnumbered 5 to 1, defeated the French at the battle if Agincourt. Alzarius went back in time and filmed the speech prior to the battle, but was disappointed to find no geocaches in France, as the game had not been invented yet. His recording can be seen here:Henry V - Speech - Eve of Saint Crispin's Day - HD - YouTube.
Later, in 1826, Ludwig van Beethoven's Quartet #13 in B flat major (Op 130) premiered this day in Vienna. The work is unusual among quartets in having six movements. They follow the pattern of movements seen in the Ninth Symphony and occasionally elsewhere in Beethoven's work (opening, dance movement, slow movement, finale), except that the middle part of the cycle is repeated: opening, dance movement, slow movement, dance movement, slow movement, finale. The fifth movement of the quartet, the Cavatina (performed by the Budapest String Quartet) is the final piece on the Voyager Golden Record, a phonograph record containing a broad sample of Earth's sounds, languages, and music sent into outer space in 1977 with the two unmanned Voyager probes. It immediately follows after the gospel blues song "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground" by Blind Willie Johnson, a blind and a deaf musician side by side. Voyager 1 entered interstellar space in 2012; Voyager 2 is expected to do so around 2019 or 2020. Early versions of satellite navigation (pre-cursors to GPS) were already in plkay in 1972, when Beethoven departed the earth for the second time, but geocaching was not yet very popular.
On this day in 1871, Journalist Henry Morton Stanley began his famous expedition to Africa. Sadly, he found no geocaches there and returned to England with only DNFs.
In 1951 on this date, Julius and Ethel Rosenburg were convicted of espionage after secret messages to Russian diplomats were discovered in geocaches that they had hidden. Just a reminder that political, religious or content with any kind of agenda does not really belong in a geocache.
The California Department of Corrections closed the prison located on Alcatraz Island in San Franciso Bay on this day in 1963, so that geocaches could be placed there instead. A virtual and an earthcache are there to this day!
Ok, back to your regularly scheduled programming:
The Carroll County Caching Fellowship (C3F) cordially invites you to enjoy the pleasures of the social side of the geocaching hobby! To find out who we are and what we're about, please visit http://c3f.finditlogitspreadit.info. 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, chiggers, 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, bracelet, earings 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 assistance. If you are new to geocaching, we are eager to get your caching career off to an excellent start! 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. All are welcome, so please come and join the crowd!
Makes you all weepy, don't it? Ok let's get back to being silly!
WARNING***WARNING****WARNING
THE GOVERNMENT OF ELDERSBURG INTERRUPTS THIS ANNOUNCEMENT 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. ATTENDANCE OF THIS EVENT MAY RESULT IN, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO SHAMBLING, DROOLING, MOANING, A CRAVING FOR SWEETBREADS, REALITY ALTERING PERCEPTIONS, AND A SERIOUSLY UNPLEASANT AND PERSISTENT BODY ODOR.
FURTHER DETAILS CAN BE FOUND HERE: WWW.FINDITLOGITSPRREADIT.INFO
WARNING***WARNING****WARNING
Bah. Pesky government weenies. Just because there was a huge breakout of zombie travel bugs all over the planet recently doesn't mean it is a problem here. 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!
We will be continuing geocaching crash courses in 2017. 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 (really this is a vain attempt to keep the puzzle cachers off topic, it never works). This month's topic, will be: the employment of naturalistic techniques in levergaing coordinate systems in the urban and semi-urban environment for the development of multi-caches. Got a request? Post it in your "will attend" log!
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!
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, 21MAR2017.
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!
IMPORTANT NOTE: You are not required to purchase anything to attend this event.
This month's raffle may feature a variety of materials useful to cachers, possibly including, but not limited to: 6 volts of surging power, test tubes, tesla coils, erlenmeyer flasks filled with eau de manbear, leftover unused materials from the zombie vats, surplus from the Mercury program, a Winnebago, a haiku puzzle cache, a fully operational TV-B-Gone, magnetic toroids, an excellent recipe for oysters kirkpatrick, a stuffed whistle-pig, india ink, the ball from an IBM Selectric typewriter, meatball cupcakes, or at least a recipe for them, U-bolts, lug nuts, filberts, a pheasant claw, a mummified squid, night-vision goggles, geocacher cremains, marbles, a lego lamb, a meteorite, one hobnail boot (left one, men's 45), a funnel (it was not used in the production of more turkeys, we promise), a mixed variety of animal footprint shoes, two potatoes, a virginal, coriander, a skeleton key, a lock of Edgar Allan Poe's hair, scrimshaw travel bug, an exultation of larks, tweezers, an egg cuber, a hard copy of the budget of the Unites Sates from 1953, eyeglass repair kits, a condom autographed by "Smokey" from Las Vegas (we found it in a cache at the Pinball Hall of Fame), a wee bit of uranium ore (we got it on Amazon) a quill pen, a uphayinaphu (but not the juice, that's not permitted!), O-rings, D-rings, Sawyer, un-hatched Man-Goose eggs (fertilization status unlknown), anisette biscotti, scratch-n'-sniff test cards, a FrogKing, filet mignon, a 5.5 ounce can of unicorn meat, flibberty-gibbets, a harpoon (BUT NO HATCHETS!!!), a signed copy of Omoo, one unused but fully operational fornistat and a Bergonic Chair (we tried it on Alzarius, but it didn't work). Sometimes there's unmentionables too!. That's right unmentionables (pathtags). Oh, and also, a microwave oven. Just in cases. Imagine that!
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.
We are deeply grateful for the joy all of you bring us each month, and for your forebearance with these ridiculous event write-ups!