Popcorn Anyone?

Ladies and Gentlemen,

The Boy Scouts have begun selling popcorn again and my youngest two sons are hard at work. One is selling for his Boy Scout Troop 501, of which all sales he makes will help send him to Boy Scout camp during the summer. The other is selling for Cub Scout Pack 501, of which all sales he makes will go to the pack to offset costs for pack outings. 70% of your purchases will be returned to them, their unit and their council. This is huge in helping their unit.

There are many ways to support this great cause in the items available. Two ways are in donation form of either $25 or $40. If you would like to contribute a donation and don't want popcorn, your donation will be used towards sending popcorn to our men and women in the military here in the states and overseas.

To view the items online and order in my sons name, you can support by clicking either:
A) Boy Scout Troop 501 (you should see "Supporting Scout Ryan H. in the upper right.)
B) Cub Scout Pack 501 (you should see "Supporting Scout Jamie C. in the upper right.)
If you don't see the correct name, a quick click of "change > find a scout" and inserting their name with zip code 28056 will bring it up, then choose them and click "select".

These make GREAT Christmas gifts and you can knock everyone off your list at one time. Remember, 70% of your purchases supports our local scouting.

My sons (and I) thank you in advance,
Robert

OK! I Figured out how to ......

..... make myself post a blog more frequently since it seems I am geocaching and focusing my open time to that. I am going to start posting here monthly to begin with and then after I get in the custom of that, hopefully I will change to bi-weekly and then weekly and maybe eventually I will be able to post daily. I gotta start some where and that's what I am going to do.

My first "official" "monthly" post will begin for July and subsequently will run the first of the month. I have set my calendar reminder to help me remember.

So be looking for July's post to come soon. (I hope)

Tutorial.....HMMMMM?

After viewing my gc.com profile page (here), a reader wondered (in a comment) if I was going to post a tutorial on how to set up a profile page like mine because he really liked my concept. I responded in the fact that I taught myself html writing and that my profile was built with a combination of things. The basic "tab-clicking" feature was borrowed from another cacher (with permission) and then changed to meet my style and likes. I then used a combination of GSAK, Cachestats, itsnotaboutthenumbers site, and ideas of my own to create what you see. The creation of what you see is the culmination of the time spent teaching myself. To teach others would be entirely different and as much as I would like too, the amount of time and space it would take to post a tutorial by blog would be mind-boggling.

It did bring up an interesting thought though. What ideas do you have or have you seen that you would like to see on your profile page, but just don't know how to do it?

Since I am an unemployed (right now) Structural Engineer and have plenty of time on my hands during the day, I would be willing to write your profile page as a supplement for lost income to help pay some bills. I don't actually work as a web designer and have no clue as to compensation for format writing, but if you read this and would like for me to write your profile page and help make it stand out, send me an email and we can work something out.

I'M BACK!

Hello cachers, cacherettes, and cachlings:

I am finally back to blog again after a little hiatus in trying to get my profile page just right and then having to wait on the good folks at Groundspeak to get the updates right for my page to work. Needless to say, I'm back and hope to be blogging here more. If you would like to see my profile page, you can view it anytime at www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=harwell5

Only time will tell now how often I will be blogging. Hopefully more frequently now that my page is set the way I want it.

In the meantime, I would like to mention that since my last post, I became unemployed. So if there is anyone out there who reads this and knows of an Engineering Firm looking for a Civil/Structural Engineer with 2.5+ years experience in steel and concrete foundation design, please let me know and give me a heads up about contact information. I live in the Charlotte, NC area and would prefer not to have to relocate, but if the right position presents itself, then that would be possible. But I digress, NOW........

On to caching........

Is there a reason?

There must be a reason I keep neglecting this blog. Oh yeah, I am still working on writing the html code for my geocaching profile page (here). I had some issues with it and have had to change some things around. It is almost to where I want it, but there are still some glitches. I work on it when I have a free moment or two and that keeps me from writing here. As soon as I get that code working correctly, I should be posting here more often.

Until then, be looking for a new post later, titled:

"Monster, What Monster? I think I've created a VIRUS!" 

You won't believe what I've created.