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<\/a><\/p>\nBack to the site from about a week ago that gave me a SLQ, for my first hunt in a while (aside from a 2 hour hunt at the same site on Tuesday that gave up bupkis).\u00a0 Going back to sites that give up SLQ’s always seems like a good idea, doesn’t it?\u00a0 Pulled 4 mercs and a sterling Cub Scout ring at this site today.\u00a0 Are you kidding me?\u00a0 And this was after hour upon hour of droning threshold and shallow clad, punctuated by the occasional deep wheatie.\u00a0 In fact, 6 deep wheaties before anything that even resembled shiny showed itself.\u00a0 I was ready to give up.<\/p>\n
But, I didn’t.\u00a0 Why to I seem inclined to spin some particularly aggressive Motorhead at this juncture?\u00a0 Cause it would work.\u00a0 But I didn’t (give up of course, nor did I spin the Motorhead, when there are actually better options), when the tells keep coming, you keep swinging.\u00a0 Some say if you keep getting wheaties, you will eventually get silvers.\u00a0 This is what we call a “just so” story in the academic literature; something that sounds true, but is not supported by evidence (economists sometimes call it “gambler’s fallacy” as well, but that’s not accurate cause there is a correlation<\/em> between wheaties and silvers.\u00a0 The fallacy is that many falsely belief that correlation is causality<\/em>) . Anyway, many times getting the wheaties is nice, but doesn’t lead to silvers, just more wheaties.\u00a0 Been in that boat more times than I care to relate (and it is a skill in and of itself to read a site as cherrypicked like that).\u00a0 But, today it did, that is, lead to more silvers.\u00a0 Woohoo!\u00a0 We’ll take ’em all, cause silver coins are hard to find.<\/p>\n Oh, and I receive an e-mail claiming that so-and-so want to sponsor me.\u00a0 Are you kidding me?\u00a0 (In all likelyhood, I imagine it is a spam or a prank, but it makes good rant material at the end of a rough week).\u00a0 Not only am I in semi retirement mode from this hobby, at least for the summer; once you succumb to sponsorship, your objectivity, spirit, clear thinking, and all other sorts of words that I could articulate now, but don’t feel like, are compromised,\u00a0 Are you kidding me?\u00a0 I’ve seen others compromised by it, so it won’t happen here, not that the prospect is all that likely in the first place.<\/p>\n Oh, there’s more, much more.\u00a0 But, my son’s school year ends tomorrow.\u00a0 How much silver will I find this summer?\u00a0\u00a0 Hopefully alot, but prolly not as much as in the spring and (prospectively) in the fall.\u00a0 If I find 10 silver coins between now and September, I will be quite happy (and if I update weekly between now and September, I might even be happier, but don’t count on it).\u00a0 I can’t except a sponsor and be on the hook to post more and\/or hunt more than I feel like.<\/p>\n So, that’s that, a good hunt breaking up a really bad week.\u00a0 We’ll take it.\u00a0 And yeah, that last line had to go.\u00a0 BTW, rather than think of things as morning edits, think of the original posts as nighttime drafts that just happen to be made public \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ok, so, there’s alot goin’ on here, more than you could know.\u00a0 Forum morons, other morons, this, that, you get it, but lets just drop the silver and try to keep it somewhat brief (yeah right). Back to the site … Continue reading