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<\/a><\/p>\nThe problem with the site is that the ground is hard and rocky, and the mineralization is brutal.\u00a0 But, getting a Q on your first visit is a good omen.\u00a0 I also got 2 or 3 wheates, and those beautiful deep bottlecaps, so that’s all good.\u00a0 I’m betting a 3-5 silver site at this point, we’ll see.\u00a0 There might be a problem getting dimes due to the mineralization, tho I did get a couple of deep clad ones.<\/p>\n
The nice thing about the site that it is adjacent to a very old church, and some very old houses.\u00a0 The hope is a big fish spillover from those, or even meeting an owner.\u00a0 We’ll see.<\/p>\n
Its interesting that I’ve gotten more Q’s than dimes lately, and ‘ve been thinking about that.\u00a0 Getting a Q is like getting 2 dimes plus, right?\u00a0 But I was thinking I’d prefer a 2 dime hunt to a 1 Q hunt.\u00a0 Not rational, says the economist.\u00a0 Just goes to show that its about the experience, not the value, and economists tend to lose sight of these intangibles when doing their analysis. \u00a0 Ok, enough geekspeak, but another question is: which is better: a 5 dime hunt, or a half dollar hunt.\u00a0 This is tougher, but again I may come down on the side of the 5 dimes.\u00a0 The rarity of finding half dollars jacks that experience factor up, but 5 silver experiences in a single day are pretty special — in fact, its greater than the sum of each experience.\u00a0 Not that I ever expect that experience again.\u00a0 Been a long time, sadly.<\/p>\n
In other news, I got yet another e-mail about so and so wanting to sponsor me.\u00a0 Are these people for real?\u00a0 I wonder if they actually read the site.\u00a0 Who knows?\u00a0 But, I can’t figure out what’s in it for them (economists always look for the incentive motive of everyone; that’s why we are such a cynical lot (or, maybe born cynics just become economists)).\u00a0 My guess is that it is along the lines of give me your bank routing # to deposit the funds.\u00a0 I’m tempted to do it, just to find out.\u00a0 Curiosity certainly killed the cat, but cats also have nine lives, so we’ll see.\u00a0 (BTW, and I just noticed this, “curiosity” is a curious word.\u00a0 The morphology of the “ity” ending, which is common enough to morph an adjective to a noun, nails that “u”.\u00a0 I never knew that until the spell checker got in my face.\u00a0 Its rare for morphology to nail an inner letter.\u00a0 Cool.\u00a0 I love playing with words (“tendon” and “tendinitis” is my favorite example of this; and people who say English spelling is easy and not arbitrary are morons).<\/p>\n
Speaking of wordplay, I haven’t done much metal detecting lately cause I’ve been working 24×7 the past few days on this letterboxing clue<\/a>.\u00a0 I don’t think people realise how long these things take to put together.\u00a0 Just the artwork for that grid is intense labor, not to mention the website coding (I still do this by hand using a text editor using pretty much all deprecated html codes, and I guess it shows.\u00a0 I remember when I did the blog like that.\u00a0 Yikes.\u00a0 I guess I need to break down and get a CMS, but who as the time?).\u00a0 And none of that stuff even counts the actual content, and putting those puzzles together is hard (but that’s fun, I might do some more of them, cause wordplay is fun).\u00a0 And I didn’t even do the stamp carving for this project.\u00a0 Prolly my last letterboxing clue.\u00a0 The dude I did it for didn’t even bother to thank me (tho I suppose he may someday, I guess), but some different dude did drop $10 in my PayPal today.\u00a0 Thanks!\u00a0 Not sure if it was for the blog or the boxes, but cool nonetheless.<\/p>\n Yikes.\u00a0 Way too much about non-metal detecting topics.\u00a0 That’s just to scare the prospective sponsors away and baffle the search engines.\u00a0 But, maybe if I actually start metal detecting again, we’ll be on topic going forward.\u00a0 We’ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" God it was nice to get out today, even if only for a couple of hours.\u00a0 First time I got out since last entry, aside from one short hunt last week where I tried to finish off that site.\u00a0 The … Continue reading