Leslie and Rick

We have a roof guy coming this morning in about 9 hours. (Yes I need to go to bed).  Why?  Well during the last rain storm our trees droped branhes like they were going out of style and one pierced our sunroom roof.  We had another large one hit over in the back right corner and then pound our porch.  Soon we get to find out what all will need replacing.  Due to the water damage we may need more then I was originally thinking.

Leslie, Darren, and Andrew and I went to the beach while on a family trip on St. Simons island. We ran across some kittens and almost went home with one. Then we regained our sanity. hehe.

It was the end of a long day of family fun on St. Simons island and so Leslie and I decided to walk to the nearby gas station to get ourselves a few cold beers. While we were there we decided to buy a few scratch offs. $512 later in winnings we took this pick. So perhaps we were looking a bit rough after a long day out in the heat and humidity. Then again who cares we just made some easy money Three cheers to being awesome.

Today we attack the “room of shame”.    This last hold out of mess in our home that we have been avoiding like the plague will now be dealt with.  Wish us luck.  Hopefully if all goes well it will be clean by days end and our trash pickup guys will hate us in the morning.

Today I went ahead and placed a advanced order or the iPhone 3G.  Should have it within two weeks.   I jumped into it for a couple of reasons.

1. I am tech obsessive   Gotta have the new tech toys.

2. I am constantly getting on and off calls for work while driving.  The new phone has voice activated controls for starting and ending calls.

3. I am hoping for more stability and better battery life.  It is believed that the core chipset was the reason for the iPhone 3Gs many issues not the software.  So I am hoping Apple will not make the same mistake twice and the new chipset will address those issues.

4.  Not a legitimate reason to get a new phone, but I am pretty psyched about the 30fps with audio video abilities.  The improved still camera abilities are sweet too.

Other features coming from it will be available on the 3G with the 3.0 update so most will get to enjoy those new features.

I will be getting the larger 32GB  size allowing for all my music collection to be stored on it AND to allow for many videos and the new higher res photos to have space.

… This purchase of course is not likely to assist my request for Santa to bring me a Oregan 550t GPS unit for my birthday.  sigh.

It gets released June 19th.  Sadly I will not be able to stop by to pick it up till some time on the 22nd or 23rd.   I will post my thoughts on it once I get to play with it a bit.

It was a so so Saturday weather wise and so I was mindlessly going through the iPhone App store when I ran across the Geocaching application.   I  had run across this app before when I first got my phone.  Most of the things I had wanted in it were added so I decided to give it a try.  Leslie and I then set out for our first geocache  hunt.  With over 700,000 listed we did not have to go very far   The fist one we went to was in a neighborhood that had its development halted shortly after the entrance was built.   There were no homes just some pipe work and 1/4 of a drain pond built.  We wandered around for about 10 minutes trying to figure out where it could be.  The hint said it was in a cute container.  I am evisioning some girl leaving it in a Hello Kitty lunch box.  After we decided we were giving up and about to leave Leslie found it.  Stuffed in a little plastic frog in a hole in a tree trunk was our geocache.

Inside the little frog was a log of everyone that had been there before us and when.  We added our names and decided to try this again.

Our next find was not far away.  This one was hidden in a little black container with a magnet to hold it in its hiding place. it had a even smaller micro “logbook”.

We left this one and did one more.  I failed to take any pictures from this one.  It was a neat place however filled with trash and mosquitos.  Other people that had been there had left notes saying this was a CITO cache.  I later found out CITO stands for Cache In Trash Out.  So we were supposed to help clean up the area.

We both had a blast so will do again… I have ordered some supplies and plan on creating my own geocache soon

I saw this over by our West Cobb location.