Quite a lazy day overall.
My main aim for the day was to get the number of unread emails down in my Inbox and make a few changes to a couple of my websites.
I have run the web site for school since last December and it takes up a fair bit of time to say the least. Today’s job was to rebuild the event calendar so that it was easier to manage as well as being able to display upcoming events in the sidebar. It works very effectively. As well as this, I wanted to declutter the front page of the site as there was too much going on.
The other site that needed love was the band site. To be honest, exactly the same thing needed doing on there and so because I’d done it once, it was easy to replicate again.
During this time, Mrs Pitts was out visiting a friend of ours’ new baby. I didn’t go due to the sneezes of the last couple of days evolving into a full blown cold. Not exactly the best thing to give a newborn child.
Once Mrs Pitts arrived home, we had a panini lunch made by myself and went for a cache (GC3QJG2) to fill a calendar gap. This cache takes us to 740 found overall and seems like a good time to update our geocaching statistics. You can view the results here. There are some interesting snippets of information included within the stats. Here are some highlights:
- We should reach 800 finds on 26th May 2013. This is is we keep up our current find rate. However, if we only find 1 cache on days that we have a calendar gap to fill – which is our aim right now – then 60 more days takes us beyond that date to 5th July. We don’t need to cache at all in May as that was part of our 50 day run and is currently the only full month that we have.
- We should reach 1000 finds in 424 days on 17th April 2014, again assuming we keep up our current find rate. Mrs Pitts has already declared her aim to reach that 1000 mark before the end of the year so we may blow that out of the water!
- The First To Find (FTFs) tab is out of date. We currently have 16 FTFs. I have neglected to tick a box on the last two which I will do for the next update.
- The calendar grid (viewable in the Other tab) is 46.7% full. Getting this as full as possible is our main aim at the moment. 171 out of 366 days are now complete.
Speaking of geocaching, there are about to be 2,000,000 active caches worldwide. This video shows how geocaching has evolved to this point:
