GEOCACHERS ANONYMOUS - THE 12 STEPS
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DO NOT GO TO THE LISTED COORDS. ABOVE!!!!!!!!! THEY ARE BOGUS!!!! INSTEAD, SOLVE THE PUZZLE AND USE THOSE COORDS.
CONGRATULATIONS TO DOUGS94 AND LINDA ON THEIR SWIFT FTF!!! (WITH A TOTAL OF 4 FTF'S IN ONE DAY THEY DEFINITELY NEED A MEETING)!!!!
HEY, I'M MCGUYVER2 AND I AM A GEOCACHING ADDICT!!! I HAVE SUFFERED WITH THIS DISEASE FOR QUITE SOME TIME NOW!! AT TIMES THE CRAVINGS GET SO BAD THAT I FIND MYSELF SWEATING, SHAKING AND CARESSING MY 30 CAL. AMMO CAN, NOT TO MENTION MY SIGNAL THE FROG DOLL!!! (HE'S WITH ME 24/7) I'M A BASIC MEMBER RIGHT NOW AND SPEND ALL OF MY WAKING MOMENTS SCROLLING THRU THE NEWEST CACHES HOPING FOR ANOTHER FTF!!! I KNOW ALL OF YOUR SCREEN NAMES BY HEART AND KNOW THE RELATIVE LOCATION OF YOU ALL WITHIN A 50 MILE RADIUS OF OXFORD!!!! KRYSTIN IS LEAVING (JUST KIDDING) THERE IS NO GAS IN THE VAN, THE TIRES ARE BALD, AND I'M SITTING HERE WITH STACKS AND STACKS OF PRINTED CACHE PAGES JUST WAITING TO BE FOUND!!! HELP!!!! WILL SOMEONE COME GET ME SO I CAN FIND JUST ONE MORE!!! I MAY GO AFTER MY OWN CACHE JUST TO GET ANOTHER FTF!!!
MEETINGS WILL BE HELD NIGHTLY AT 8PM AT A LOCAL CACHE NEAR YOU!!!
Are you addicted to geocaching?
You need help if you...
• think of everyone in your life as either a friend or a muggle
• have ever been late for work because you had to find a cache
• have a caching bag ready to go filled with tweezers, string, magnets, spare logs, paper clips, etc.
• give your friends coordinates when you ask them to meet you somewhere
• have a local geocaching map that is all smilies for at least 10 miles out
• have no concern for gas prices because after all, its for a smiley
• plan all-day geocaching outings
• take geocaching vacations (also known as geovacations)
• have seen and touched more guardrails and light posts than 100 people would in a lifetime
• know it is all about the numbers
• swear you'll remember the gloves and the tick spray next time
• understand ciphers
• have found a 5/5 cache
• can't wait to find another 5/5 cache
• keep pens, extra batteries, tweezers, flashlight, mirror, screwdrivers, etc in your car
• carry spare logs, containers, duct tape, velcro, and magnets in your car.
• save anything and everything that is big enough to hold a log
• update your profile stats every 7 days
• have ever had a caching streak
• have neglected basic tasks like cleaning your house and mowing your lawn to go caching
• find yourself scouting for possible places to hide a cache
• are signed up for email alerts when a new cache is placed in your area
• have more than one gps
• use Geocahing Navigator or geocaching.com on your phone
• say "just one more" even though it is dark or cached during a severe thunderstorm
• plan your milestones in advance
• attend geocaching events
• get excited about getting a new cache type icon
• have plans to hit at least one cache in every state, province, country, county, and/or continent
• have a t-shirt that reads "You wouldn't understand, you're just a muggle"
• have another t-shirt that reads "Official Geocacher"
• sleep with your Signal the Frog doll
• have a car as a travel bug
• have a pet as a travel bug
• discover other people's car and pet travel bugs
• race to a newly posted cache faster than superman in hopes of an FTF
• leave wedding receptions to check out some local caches
• spend 5 hours to drive 60 miles because you need to cache along the way
• can identify people you have never met by looking at GC logs
• watch the GPSr on your phone while you go through town so you can find areas that NEED a cache...Wow, no caches for several blocks here; hmm, we need to fix that!
• added GC codes to your list of goals to accomplish
THE TWELVE STEPS OF GEOCACHERS ANONYMOUS
1. We admitted we were powerless over geocaching—that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that dead GPS batteries could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn off our GPS and computers and phone apps.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked ourselves to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, ignored, taken for granted and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through to improve our conscious contact with reality, as we understood it, hoping only for knowledge of normal life for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to geocachers, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
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ABBREVIATIONS SUCH AS “GPS” COUNT AS ONE WORD
Step #1 = Add the number of words in the First step then subtract 10 =A
Step #2 = Add the number of words in the Second Step then subtract 9 =B
Step #3 = Add the number of words in the Third Step then multiply by 3 then subtract 2 =C
Step #4 = Add the number of words in the Fourth Step then subtract 9 =D
Step #5 = Add the number of words in the Fifth Step then multiply by 6 then add 7 =E
Step #6 = Add the number of words in the Sixth Step then subtract 10 =F
Step #7 = Add the number of words in the Seventh Step then multiply by 12 then subtract 1 =G
Step #8 = Add the number of words in the Eighth Step then subtract 17 =H
Step #9 = Add the number of words in the Ninth Step then subtract 15 =I
Step #10 = Add the number of words in the Tenth Step then subtract 9 =J
Step #11 = Add the number of words in the Eleventh Step then subtract 23 =K
Step #12 = Add the number of words in the Twelfth Step then subtract 28 =L
ONCE YOUR DONE FILL IN THE BLANKS!!!
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