mortonfox: (morton blvd)
I'm back in Jersey so I had to shelve the "moving out" project for a bit and attend to a few items that came up while I was away. I had a bunch of books listed in my Amazon Seller account and one of those books sold while I was away. My first Amazon sale! So I shipped it out yesterday morning. Also needed to do some banking. Then I went to Saddle River County Park in Paramus for the It's my party and I'll cache if I want to geocache. Went for it in the rain but it wasn't far from parking so that's not too bad.

This morning, I went to the bank again to check the car title in the safe deposit box. I'll need to re-title/re-register it after the move. Then I went for two geocaches in Rutherford, Kip Center and Memorial Field. This was again in the rain because we're getting hit by Tropical Storm Danny. But again, neither cache was too far from parking and the rainy weather brought the temperature down to a cool 66°F.

Filled up at the Valero gas station in Hasbrouck Heights. The pump attendant had the nerve to ask for a dollar tip for doing nothing more than pumping gas. He didn't even offer to clean the windshield or check the engine oil. This is one aspect of NJ that I'm tired of. I've gotten to the point where I'll gladly pay a little more for gas if I can pump it myself and not have to deal with anyone.
mortonfox: (gps)
Cloudy and cooler than yesterday. 50-60°F. Long Island trip. It's only been two weeks since my last LI trip but there were already enough new geocaches that I only got as far as Farmingdale before turning back. What I didn't like, however, was that many of those geocaches are the new half-size nanos. A nanocache is already pretty small, about the size of a finger nail. These new ones are half as tall. With below-average dexterity, I find them rather hard to handle. Indeed, at "Random Caches 4", I accidentally jammed the screw thread while screwing the tiny lid back on the tiny cache. Dinner was at Sentosa in Flushing.

Pump attendants... I don't know what to do with them any more. Now they figure with high per-gallon gas prices, they can top off to a dollar over the next higher dollar. This evening, at Exxon in Paramus, the gas pump stopped at $23.20. Then the pump attendant continued pumping until $24, but he didn't stop there. He went all the way to $25! If the point of topping off is to get to the next whole dollar amount so that he doesn't have to deal with change, what's the extra dollar of gas for? In fact, the EPA recommends not topping off at all! I really should move to a state where I'm allowed to pump gas on my own so that I can do it the right way.

The caches... )

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