The Littlest Marauder is the little TravelBug I found in my first geocache (previous post). I’ve been taking pictures of him in nautical locations, as requested by his “owners.”

Here are some of the pictures I’ve taken of him:

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Location:	Anacortes (map)	Anacortes (map)	Orcas Ferry (map)

I’m still looking for a new geocache in which to hide him, though I have some potential spots to explore while I’m here.

Now that my GPS has arrived, I’ve gone on a few geocache hunts. My first two were unsuccessful, though I’m not sure why. Either I just couldn’t find them, or they weren’t there. My last hunt was successful (see pic below). I found the geocache at the address on this post (get map from main page or click here). Inside, I found a travel bug, which I’m taking to Seattle tomorrow to hide anew.

My first (successful) cache!

The blogmap should change to reflect my most recent location, I think. Here, I’m pretending I’m in Niamey, Niger. Let’s see if it works. (Note to LJ Readers, you probably have to go to my blog at virtuallyshocking.com to see it.)

In anticipation of the arrival of my new GPS tomorrow, I’ve installed the GeoPlugin for WordPress. This is the first post with it on. Supposedly it puts the info in the post metadata. I think I should be able to do a blog map or something once it fires up.

ADDENDUM: I added a blogmap. It shows the center of downtown New Orleans, because I don’t currently know the coordinates of Tulane.

A good quote from Cowboy Bebop struck me today as representative of using Mac OS X vs. Windows. Linux I’m going to leave out of this. It was, approximately, “Are you going to use the technology, or let it use you?”

If you spend time wiping viruses and spyware off of your computer, fixing DLL conflicts, wiping your hard drive and reinstalling to fix mysterious problems, or other such activities, consider that quote, and consider switching operating systems.