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Welcome to the August edition of the GeoVamp Breakfast series.
Although our bud Richard has moved to the far corners of the earth
(East Texas), his memories live on...
On The Cusp of
Discovery
Come on down to the Golden Corral at the Grapevine Mills Mall,
Grapevine, Texas, from 8:30am to 11:00am on August 26th, 2006.
Discover the GC's awesome breakfast buffet. Meet and greet some
fellow geocachers. If you're new to the sport, it's a great way to
discover some great ways to geocache.
The GGGal bonged up her knee at a wild party at the
SandBassKing&Queen's last month, so we've basically only been
doing park and grabs and watching the Discovery Channel a lot. I
like their slogan: "Let's all discover." That's really what
geocaching is all about. Like a cartoon version of what scientists
and explorers do for a living, geocaching gives us a tiny taste
(and in deference to Terracaching, maybe a nibble) of what it's
like to have that feeling when you're on the cusp of discovery.
But unlike Real Science, geocaching gives you almost immediate
gratification without too much preparation, overhead, maintenance,
money, deconstruction, grant-writing, politicking, or lifetimes of
sacrifice. I think geocaching is so popular because it puts one on
the cusp of discovery with the least effort of almost anything else
on the planet.
And it can all happen for you, just by having breakfast at the
Golden Corral. It's cheap in more ways than one. An extra special
invitation goes out to the fabulous CoastalFinds and the
hope-youre-still-with-us RockHounds crew to please come and share
y'all's totally cool Actual Science experiences with us. And any
other of you cool *ologists that would like to come are most
welcome as well. The protein aggregate substances here are
yummy!
astrojr1&GGGal trivia: contrary to rumor,
astrojr1 is not a real scientist. He never even graduated from
college. The sum of his knowledge is a hermit-crab shell of
half-truths, poor study habits, lousy math skills, incomplete
concepts, and shallow understandings. He makes his living in an
artificial world of preconceived unnatural logic, the world of
computers. Amid a universe-sized ocean of reality, one has precious
little time, barely enough to dab a pinky toe in a couple of the
closest puddles, and he picked a puddle that wasn't even real
water! Geocaching has delivered astrojr1 from, not into, the
insanity resulting from this realization. "Geocaching, help me
escape the squalor of our time, this primitive, fearful, backwards
time, where the greed and selfishness of those aggressive enough to
gain power decide it best to fund wars but scrub space missions!"
he cried. Ok, so maybe I'm not completely not insane yet. Another
event should help. Yeah, that's the ticket...Golden Corral,
Grapevine, name on the door, be there, over and out.
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