I hope GT is okay knowing a whole bunch of people are currently discussing his eventual demise. XD

Wellllll... for SOME of you, it may only be "currently"...

Bueller... Bueller...?

Rex I don’t know anybody that has been there.

If you enjoy making Shrinky Dinks, you may want to join this LTC tracker! Due date is January 31.

I'm just as curious about it as everyone else. Maybe even more so than the rest of you.... ;o)

But alas, I fear that I will not be around to learn about my eventual demise. *sigh*

-- Ryan

That's so sad. ☹️

At least you can take comfort in the fact that you will be the very last person to die in your lifetime.

Maybe you could figure out a way to breathe new life into them?? It’s way too good of a series to gather dust.

Sounds like a fun one! Have a great time!

I want to know more about this squirrel embargo. Was this something caused by the Moose?

Well, he caught on with that third one. ;-)

Thanks for the reminder. Our vests are in the car!!

What blaze orange items do folks wear for letterboxing? I currently have none. Should get some . . .

Yes. I have a blaze orange baseball cap, a vest, a fleece-lined hoodie. I call them my “I am not a deer” clothes. They usually stay in the car; sometimes I just tuck the cap into my bag just in case.

As my boxing buddies are fond of reminding me: Properties next to trails may allow hunting. Orange safety.

Projectiles and Ammunition knows no boundaries.

We have Blaze orange vests. We can wear them over whatever outer we are wearing.

Looking for a 2026 event location... this is an event in a box - so afterwards it can travel to another location in 2027 :)

Message me for details/interest

Cool! What part of Vegas are you in? I am in the northwest - near Providence and Skye Canyon.

Orange vests, they keep the torso warm and give a larger area of visibility.

Even wore it today(Sunday); you just never know!

I've always wanted to get them but either thr weather was wrong or I couldn't find company.

Since 2010, I’ve hosted 91 LTC swaps. During that time, I’ve asked only two people not to sign up for my swaps, and that was because they had been unreliable participants on multiple occasions. I don’t do this because I dislike a person but because it’s not fair to the other participants if the deadline gets extended or if a spot gets taken by someone who never delivers their cards.

This bears repeating. If for whatever reason, Ryan isn't able or chooses not to continue and no one picks up the mantle, all of the clues will be lost (OK, not all, but generally speaking). Not just AQ but, now, LbNA as well. Should that time come, desperate measures might need to be considered.

Not to be a doomsayer, but if you think about it, this whole system is a bit of a house of cards. I'm in communication with another letterboxer who has all of their clue pages printed out and stored in a binder for future reference. My first thought was that was over-reacting but I'm re-thinking that - maybe that's something I should do as well.

Of course, I'm sure there will be time for that in the future, should this eventuality come to pass. Still something to think about.

To clarify... I (and other unnamed technically AQ Administrators) (I know, I know, scary prospect..), have access to the database. All the clues ( as well as finds, plants, and DOZENS of other tables of information) will be retrievable AND EXPORTABLE. Just as Silver Eagle was able to "mine" the old Yahoo Board posts and export them into a useable format... all the AQ data could be made available in a variety of formats. Again, that is an EXTREME case... AQ would be up and running for quite some time, without any real intervention necessary, before things started to degrade, and we would have YEARS, I believe, to address the situation.

Maybe I should have left with that.

But yeah, I'd expect the website could keep plodding along for years before it degrades too badly. Plenty of time to copy your clues.

(Printing them out seems like overkill to me, though.)

AQ won't shut down the day after I kick the bucket. Short-term (ie several years), things will keep on chugging. It's the long-term (thinking in decades here) that's more unclear.

-- Ryan

Hopefully it lasts until my membership expires in 2121 - I'd hate to lose out on some of that!

Well thanks for that, really. I know it wouldn't just fold the next day but not having AQ or LbNA around is a chilling prospect.


Yeah, I thought of that as soon as I posted it, better to store them electronically (on a flash drive, maybe?)

Clue Tracker!

Lovely little British independent film. Really enjoyed it. Free on Prime. Starring Carey Mulligan, Tom Basden and Tim Key.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTi-e20yVNs