- 2 year subscription to "Shape" magazine
- $15 off coupon for Borders (Borders Rewards)
- 6 months of 1 free movie rental at Blockbuster
(and their human parents)
This blog started as The adventures of a D.I.N.K. family where the two "kids" are four legged and how we are going to retire early. Now it's a 1 income, 1 entrepreneur, and 1 pup getting closer and closer to retirement.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Free Stuff on the Way
I just ordered the following with E-Rewards.com!
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Day one of vacation - driving
Aug 1, 2009
Day one of vacation - driving
What a drive yesterday! We got on the road around 10 am and finally got to a hotel about 8 pm. We were on the road much longer than we wanted to be.
Esa was WONDERFUL yesterday for such a long car ride. She would jump right in the car no problem – even though we knew she had enough.We hit rain and traffic (caused by an accident) in ....Pennsylvania..... Thank goodness for the GPS on the phone! I figured out a way around and we travelled the countryside for a little ways, but totally got out of the traffic. We might have been stuck for about 30 minutes, but when we stopped at the next rest area, people said they were in it for about an hour and a half!
The next excitement was driving through a construction zone and a rock came flying up on the back side window – you could see where it hit, but luckily, it looks like it didn’t chip it!
Next was trying to find a hotel to stay at. We figured no problem, we’ll stop in ....Watertown.., ..NY.... and get a hotel – EVERY pet friendly hotel was booked. The next closest pet friendly hotel was over the border. So we finally got to the hotel about 8 pm. By the time we stopped, I was just done. Couldn’t even think. Walked Esa a bit and tried to find something to eat – ended up ordering in.
It was a rough night – none of us really slept well. Esa and I went out this morning and walked around the hotel – saw 2 feral kittens (definitely under a year) and a black squirrel playing Spiderman, crawling up the building.
We are packing up and going to try and find 2 geocaches that are REALLY close and then head to the cottage. About 3 hours and we’ll be there.
No more internet when we leave here. I’ll post our adventures as soon as I can. We might go to the library to log on during the week.
Day one of vacation - driving
What a drive yesterday! We got on the road around 10 am and finally got to a hotel about 8 pm. We were on the road much longer than we wanted to be.
Esa was WONDERFUL yesterday for such a long car ride. She would jump right in the car no problem – even though we knew she had enough.We hit rain and traffic (caused by an accident) in ....Pennsylvania..... Thank goodness for the GPS on the phone! I figured out a way around and we travelled the countryside for a little ways, but totally got out of the traffic. We might have been stuck for about 30 minutes, but when we stopped at the next rest area, people said they were in it for about an hour and a half!
The next excitement was driving through a construction zone and a rock came flying up on the back side window – you could see where it hit, but luckily, it looks like it didn’t chip it!
Next was trying to find a hotel to stay at. We figured no problem, we’ll stop in ....Watertown.., ..NY.... and get a hotel – EVERY pet friendly hotel was booked. The next closest pet friendly hotel was over the border. So we finally got to the hotel about 8 pm. By the time we stopped, I was just done. Couldn’t even think. Walked Esa a bit and tried to find something to eat – ended up ordering in.
It was a rough night – none of us really slept well. Esa and I went out this morning and walked around the hotel – saw 2 feral kittens (definitely under a year) and a black squirrel playing Spiderman, crawling up the building.
We are packing up and going to try and find 2 geocaches that are REALLY close and then head to the cottage. About 3 hours and we’ll be there.
No more internet when we leave here. I’ll post our adventures as soon as I can. We might go to the library to log on during the week.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Geocaching class
Jul 30, 2009
Geocaching class
Current mood:geeky
So last night, Dan and I went to a geocaching event. It was a puzzle class to help figure out/decipher clues that are in the “logs” of each cache.
Let me just say – the first thing I thought of was “I’m in a room with a bunch of geeks!” (yes, hubby is considered my geocaching geek). Fortunately, there are much more geekier geocachers than my hubby!
The presenter started talking about the different ciphers that were used in some local caches – OMG! – who knew all of these different ciphers were out there! Morse code based, binary, hidden clues in the HTTP source code, hidden tags in pictures, logical, etc. Too bad I didn’t go into the CIA, then maybe this wouldn’t have been new to me!
It was kind of cool to find out all of these different ciphers out there. The best thing – there are cheats all over the internet! You know that’s the only way I’m going to figure them out!
Anyway, I’ll have to try one. At least if Dan and I work together on one, we might be able to figure it out (like Dan couldn’t it figure out by himself – the puzzleman that he is)!
Geocaching class
Current mood:geeky
So last night, Dan and I went to a geocaching event. It was a puzzle class to help figure out/decipher clues that are in the “logs” of each cache.
Let me just say – the first thing I thought of was “I’m in a room with a bunch of geeks!” (yes, hubby is considered my geocaching geek). Fortunately, there are much more geekier geocachers than my hubby!
The presenter started talking about the different ciphers that were used in some local caches – OMG! – who knew all of these different ciphers were out there! Morse code based, binary, hidden clues in the HTTP source code, hidden tags in pictures, logical, etc. Too bad I didn’t go into the CIA, then maybe this wouldn’t have been new to me!
It was kind of cool to find out all of these different ciphers out there. The best thing – there are cheats all over the internet! You know that’s the only way I’m going to figure them out!
Anyway, I’ll have to try one. At least if Dan and I work together on one, we might be able to figure it out (like Dan couldn’t it figure out by himself – the puzzleman that he is)!
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