Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Working it out

We got up around seven for breakfast (which is late by OOS standards), and already we were feeling the strain of the work to come.
Today we explained our situation to the 911 turbos boys and decided to "scout" out the areas that our hands-on geocaching part of our program will occur. These areas run in a circuit and by the end there will be four in total (we're still waiting for the OK to gain the fourth). When our patrols come, we shall split them up into four groups and send them each to a different area. In each area there shall be three training caches. These special caches are designed to be fairly easy (although ramp up in dificulty), and contain typical geocaching content (hidden under geosticks, lock 'n' locks, logbooks ect...). If a group is faster then schedule, then the group of the area next to ours will already be at the end, so we can do the first cache in the neighboring area. This way our groups will not colide and spoilers will be avoided. After this tedios scouting (for the older two) (trust me the senior fish has a hat that has more moisture then the Atlantic), it was time to break for lunch.
After the filling meal of chili and French bread, the two 911s and I split up and took one personal area to hide training caches in. Tomorrow we shall hunt each other's areas and give each other feedback.
When I got back SFish (senior 3Fish), the first poco, and the long-haired 911 were sitting behind the van, watching an informative geocaching DVD on this laptop. We decided it was about time to work on the Audio Visual presentation part of our program. It was about that time that the first poco realized he forgot the A equipment in AV. He snatched up a nearby venture named Ryan and off they went to a nearby supermarket on a quest for speakers.
While they were gone, SFish, the 911 boys, and myself started to build a powerpoint. While doing so, SFish gave the 911 boys a history lesson of geocaching (Tragic plane crash, Selective Availibility, the fabled OCD). Soon the first poco arived with the Speakers, and AAA bateries for our radios, and we decided to head off to Dinner of Mongolian Goulash.
When we got back to work we disected the informative Geocaching DVD for usefull sections that we could use to supplement our powerpoint (kinda like how goulash supplements mash potatoes). We slaved away on that for the rest of the afternoon, and it would have been much more tedious if it was not for our random venture helper Ryan!
We then loaded plenty of monitors onto the tables of the room we were working in. It is to become the internet cafe of PJ.
So I suppose it's time to call it a day, and lord has it been a day, this is the second poco (Pierce) signing out.

Ps: Please excuse the spelling mistakes, this has yet to be spellchecked.

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