Sometimes life gets in the way of fun and games. That has been my story lately, and my lack of active caching. Well, time to make amends and get going again! Hmm, how can I give back to the community?
Of course, by creating some new puzzles, everyone’s favorite cache type, to solve and then find. However, my brain is too old and decrepit to be that creative. Time to do something I did not think I would ever do again, refer to my interaction with Jenk Porkins. That’s right, time to hire a service to do my dirty work for me.
Unfortunately, or fortunately, I only had 5 people enter my contest. This made judging the ‘winners’ a whole lot easier. This is the saga of one of those winning contestants.
I must admit, meeting this next person kind of had me on edge. I was not sure what to expect. All I knew was that I was to meet a gentleman named Albert and I was to meet him at his place of business. I had punched in the address he gave me and headed off in my cache-mobile. As I pulled up, I spotted an old style door with a wooden sign hanging above it. I thought, ‘that’s not something you see everyday.’
I parked, got out of the my car, and headed for the door. As I entered, a bell chimed from above my head. My eyes took a bit to adjust, going from sunlight to the dimly lit interior of the business. I looked around and saw shelved upon shelves of oddities.
A friendly voice came from the distance. “May I help you?”
“Um, yes, I’m looking for Albert.”
“That’s me, and this is Alphabet Science Cooperative Industries Inc.”
“Oh hello, Albert, you may refer to me as fanugler. I do believe that you have something for me.”
“Ahhh, yes, I did have such an enjoyable time trying to help you. I do enjoy a good puzzle with my morning coffee. Anything to get my brain going in the morning.”
At this point, I looked around a bit more as he was talking. “What exactly is it that you do here?”
“Well, let’s just say it’s a little bit of this and a little bit of that. Whatever my heart feels at that moment. I am not bound by anyone but myself. Here, I do believe you came here for this.”
At that point, he bent down and reached under his counter and grabbed a sheet of paper. He placed it on the counter and slid it over to me.
“Oh, wow, thank you for your time and effort. I really do appreciate this. I have basically come to a point where the creative point in my brain has been zapped.”
"Your friends should put what they find with my puzzle into a bin and then things should be able to reveal themselves."
"Ok, thank you for your time and hard work!"
“No worries, fanugler. Here, take my card and feel free to reach out anytime. I am more than willing to help out if possible.”
At that point, he said he had a ‘project’ he needed to work on and slipped off into the back of his workshop and I headed back to my car.
The blue squares of the puzzle have no meaning except for they were there and I did not take the time to edit them out!!!
There seems to be an issue with the puzzle. Until I can amend it, a=1
When finding the cache, grab the information from the logbook needed to find the final in this series.
Big thanks to CubsGuy23 for the container.