14/04/2013 By Kabutroid
AHA! At long, long last, my horrendous DNF streak has finally come to an end. Started with a lengthy period of inactivity for a variety of reasons, followed by... well... the aforementioned DNF streak, I’ve been hankering for a find for a long while now. And the day didn’t even start out that well... I began the geocaching of the day about an hour earlier, where I received yet another DNF to add to my belt. Honestly, they’re starting to get a bit cumbersome 
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So, already feeling a bit dejected from getting yet another DNF, I figured I’d give it one more shot for the day before throwing in the towel (for the day... not forever or anything). My wife and I were out shopping, so while tooling around the area, I had her swing down this street and go for what looked on my GPS map like a cache towards the edge of a park. I was at least going to give it a drive-by, and if the area still had a foot of snow on the ground, I was just going to write it off as yet another “don’t bother, since I don’t have winter boots on” situation. But hey, it had a low difficulty and terrain, so I figured that if I was going to be able to find ANYTHING, this would probably be a good bet.
As it turns out, I kept looking at the GPS to make sure that we were on the right street, since when we got to where said street stopped, there appeared to be a distinct lack of park there. In fact, there appeared to be a relatively large building in the way of said park. Seeing as how the geocaching.com map agrees with the GPS’s map, I can only assume that community centers are considered parks, for some bizarre reason. Well, on the geocaching.com map, the building area itself appears to be blue in colour, while the parking lot around it is park-green. Quite peculiar, since although people would definitely be able to find entertainment in the community center, you’d be hard-pressed to find me telling kids to go have fun playing in the parking lot .
But I digress. Laura parked the car in the aforementioned parking lot, and I hopped out and walked across the “park” to get to ground zero. I couldn’t imagine there would be many places it could hide, and thankfully it took me only about 10 someodd seconds to spy the cache container and get my hands on it. Sitting on the nearby fence (the planks arranged in a convenient manner to provide itself as a makeshift bench), I signed up the logbook, and... yes... dropped a chainmail ball into the cache container. I found that my regular nanomail balls were a bit too large for my liking, however I DO have ludicrously thin titanium rings for a reason . Dropping in a titanium nanomail ball, the cache closed nicely, and I replaced it as found.
Hopping back to the car, filled with new hope and joy that my streak of bad luck (which I’ve almost certainly jinxed back on with this sentence) has ended, I climbed back into the car to finish some last bit of shopping, and head home happy. Apparently not happy enough to get around to logging my DNF and this find for almost a week, but happy nonetheless 
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WOOOOOH! Feels good to have gotten back into the game, if not at least slightly. Hopefully my next several outings will be filled with finds, and with them a renewed vigour with which to go geocaching 
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Took: Nothing
Left: Logbook entry and nanomail ball
EDIT: Fixing bizarre BBCode error
This entry was edited by Kabuthunk on Saturday, 20 April 2013 at 20:31:55 UTC.
Jumping Streets - Dunraven Avenue
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