Today, Dewgrl and I were heading up to find a few caches near Marion. Along the way we were going to stop by the Caledonia Bowstring Bridge to take a look and Waymark it. It falls into the Abandoned Bridges, Arch Bridges, and U.S. National Register categories. I happened across it when looking through the National Register. I had never heard of it before, and found little information about it. Luckily I did find a map of its location, which surprisingly, was correct. Beyond that we really didn't have many plans today. When going into downtown Marion, I decided that I wanted to stop at the Marion Star, to Waymark it as well. I knew it would fit into the Newspaper HQ category, but later found it was listed on Wikipedia. Of course, I submitted it to the Wikipedia Entries cat as well. We also passed by the Women's Club Home. I originally hadn't planned to mark this due to the controversy in the category, but since we were going right by it, I decided to stop. I submitted it just to see if it would be approved....although I fully expect it to be declined.
In all it ended up being a rather productive Waymarking day. Sure, we only visited 3 locations, but we didn't spend much time at it either.
Near N40° 18.775 W083° 07.073
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Don't forget to vote...
Don't forget to vote for your favorite Waymark photo over at Wayward Waymarking. Voting closes on the 15th, so there are just a few days left.
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Nice weekend, Columbus BlueJackets Hockey, and Marion Star Newspaper article.
This weekend Dewgrl and I took advantage of the nice weather and visited a few local parks to walk around. We didn't do much Waymarking, and only found one cache. That cache was one that we had found previously, but since we were in the park anyhow we dropped by to check on it.
Today we, along with my brother, headed down to Nationwide Arena for the Bluejackets season finale. They ended up losing, which was a disappointment, but it was still a pretty decent game. We did get to see Keith Tkachuk score his 500th career goal. Unfortunately since he plays for St. Louis, it was a goal against us. It came late in the third period, short handed, and on an empty net almost coast-to-coast.
I got word this evening that the Geocaching article for which I was interviewed appeared in the Marion Star today. I've only skimmed it online, so I'm not sure if there is anything more in the actual print edition.
http://www.marionstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080406/NEWS01/804060327
Today we, along with my brother, headed down to Nationwide Arena for the Bluejackets season finale. They ended up losing, which was a disappointment, but it was still a pretty decent game. We did get to see Keith Tkachuk score his 500th career goal. Unfortunately since he plays for St. Louis, it was a goal against us. It came late in the third period, short handed, and on an empty net almost coast-to-coast.
I got word this evening that the Geocaching article for which I was interviewed appeared in the Marion Star today. I've only skimmed it online, so I'm not sure if there is anything more in the actual print edition.
http://www.marionstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080406/NEWS01/804060327
Friday, April 4, 2008
Skybus airlines
In an earlier post, I mentioned the Columbus based discount airline Skybus. It was announced today that they are ceasing operations as of 12:01am on April 5, 2008. Sadly they didn't even make it a full year in service. While the concept was great, and it did offer an inexpensive alternative, they just decided they couldn't make it. They cited rising fuel prices and a "slowing economic environment" as their primary reasons for calling it quits.
I only had the opportunity to fly with them on one occasion. From Columbus to Kansas City, and back earlier this year. I thought it was a great experience even in spite of my original doubts.
It's sad to see them go, but I can certainly understand.
http://www.skybus.com/
I only had the opportunity to fly with them on one occasion. From Columbus to Kansas City, and back earlier this year. I thought it was a great experience even in spite of my original doubts.
It's sad to see them go, but I can certainly understand.
http://www.skybus.com/
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Making the move, tying up some loose ends, recent Waymarking, and excuses excuses excuses
So I've decided to make the move over to Blogger after all. It's nothing against Livejournal, but I just like the features, and options over here a little better. To the best of my knowledge I've copied over all of the old posts. I'm still going to keep everything up at my LiveJournal but new posts are going to go here.
As for the loose ends, hmmm, well I seem to forget most of everything that I wanted to mention. I happened to notice some things that I never really wrapped up from some previous posts. One thing I did want to mention though. When I started copying and pasting everything over here, I noticed that Hikenutty had replied to one of my blog posts here back in June. Back at that time I had copied over a few posts, and was playing around with the site to kind of get a feel for it. I didn't really have any intention of switching over at that time, but she just happened to find me on here. Since I never really checked this site, I didn't notice the comment. So to answer your question, HN, yeah, I am switching over, so please do update your links....I just didn't know I was going to do so when you asked. :)
I've recently been able to post a few Waymarks. More than I have in recent times, really. One in particular I really enjoyed going to Waymark. Ever since the inception of the Active Rail Locations category, I've been meaning to toss a Waymark in there. This past Sunday I finally got up to the spot I had in mind, which was the Marion Union Station. I've always been interested in railfanning, but I've never actively participated. I headed up and spent a little over 2 hours there and caught 4 trains up there. I was hoping for more trains, but I still wasn't disappointed. However it wasn't on par with the 100+ trains per day that makes it a nationally known rail spot. I did have the opportunity to talk to a few folks while we were waiting, so it was all around an enjoyable, if not cold, rainy, and windy day. I'm planning to head back up there more frequently just for fun.
Some may or may not have noticed that I've not been very active with my blog, or on the WM.com site lately. There are a few reasons behind this. Mainly I've just been busy remodeling a house to put it on the market soon. Long story short, I own a home up in Marion, and live in an apartment in Delaware. For the past 7 years or so, my brother has been living at the house. The way that worked out, shortly after I bought the house my job was more or less moved from Marion to Cleveland, and I moved up there. He moved into the house since it was only about 5-10 minutes from his work, and it helped me out. He bought his own home in October, and moved out. Since I'm still in a lease with my apartment here in Delaware, I couldn't really move up there. Plus it would increase my commute to work from 30min to a little over an hour. So I'm fixing things up a little, and am going to try to sell it....yeah I know, great time to try to sell a house. I'm still hopeful though since the area is growing quickly, and the house is pretty close to where all sorts of new shops, restaurants, and jobs are being created.
The other thing that's been keeping me away is my terrible internet. I mentioned it before in the blog and I'm still having the same problems. I can connect for about 2-3 minutes, then I get kicked off for 5 minutes, and then I can reconnect for another 2-3 minutes.....repeat all evening. It's just not very conducive to computing on the internets. I think at this point I've narrowed the problem down. I've noticed I have the most problems when it's cold, and/or wet outside. I believe there must be a problem with the wires somewhere. I've just not bothered to call about it because I hate dealing with their tech support, and I know that I'm going to get the run-around and that it'll be nearly impossible to convince them that switching my modem on/off for the 100th time that evening isn't going to magically fix it.
As for the loose ends, hmmm, well I seem to forget most of everything that I wanted to mention. I happened to notice some things that I never really wrapped up from some previous posts. One thing I did want to mention though. When I started copying and pasting everything over here, I noticed that Hikenutty had replied to one of my blog posts here back in June. Back at that time I had copied over a few posts, and was playing around with the site to kind of get a feel for it. I didn't really have any intention of switching over at that time, but she just happened to find me on here. Since I never really checked this site, I didn't notice the comment. So to answer your question, HN, yeah, I am switching over, so please do update your links....I just didn't know I was going to do so when you asked. :)
I've recently been able to post a few Waymarks. More than I have in recent times, really. One in particular I really enjoyed going to Waymark. Ever since the inception of the Active Rail Locations category, I've been meaning to toss a Waymark in there. This past Sunday I finally got up to the spot I had in mind, which was the Marion Union Station. I've always been interested in railfanning, but I've never actively participated. I headed up and spent a little over 2 hours there and caught 4 trains up there. I was hoping for more trains, but I still wasn't disappointed. However it wasn't on par with the 100+ trains per day that makes it a nationally known rail spot. I did have the opportunity to talk to a few folks while we were waiting, so it was all around an enjoyable, if not cold, rainy, and windy day. I'm planning to head back up there more frequently just for fun.
Some may or may not have noticed that I've not been very active with my blog, or on the WM.com site lately. There are a few reasons behind this. Mainly I've just been busy remodeling a house to put it on the market soon. Long story short, I own a home up in Marion, and live in an apartment in Delaware. For the past 7 years or so, my brother has been living at the house. The way that worked out, shortly after I bought the house my job was more or less moved from Marion to Cleveland, and I moved up there. He moved into the house since it was only about 5-10 minutes from his work, and it helped me out. He bought his own home in October, and moved out. Since I'm still in a lease with my apartment here in Delaware, I couldn't really move up there. Plus it would increase my commute to work from 30min to a little over an hour. So I'm fixing things up a little, and am going to try to sell it....yeah I know, great time to try to sell a house. I'm still hopeful though since the area is growing quickly, and the house is pretty close to where all sorts of new shops, restaurants, and jobs are being created.
The other thing that's been keeping me away is my terrible internet. I mentioned it before in the blog and I'm still having the same problems. I can connect for about 2-3 minutes, then I get kicked off for 5 minutes, and then I can reconnect for another 2-3 minutes.....repeat all evening. It's just not very conducive to computing on the internets. I think at this point I've narrowed the problem down. I've noticed I have the most problems when it's cold, and/or wet outside. I believe there must be a problem with the wires somewhere. I've just not bothered to call about it because I hate dealing with their tech support, and I know that I'm going to get the run-around and that it'll be nearly impossible to convince them that switching my modem on/off for the 100th time that evening isn't going to magically fix it.
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