I guess we have a liftoff

On-line inventory search: Some Borders stores show DRAGON'S EYE "in stock." More of them show WINTER OAK mass-market in stock. Barnes & Noble on-line claims to be shipping both, while Amazon does not.

Is this a book-launch I see before me, handle towards my hand? Come, let me clutch at thee....

Frosty morning again, bright and clear and colorful. May take a drive out to the hinterlands in search of Greening apples for winter stock, and a gallon of fresh-pressed cider -- it's that kind of day.

It's over there. No, over there. NO, over THERE, you dummy....

Did the geocache thing with the Nature Center GPS units, both in succession. Item one, they didn't seem happy with their satellite coverage under the spruce and fir of the Great North Woods -- only picking up three or four sats, accuracy estimates varying from 20' to 200' without moving. Elevation quotes ranged from 100' to over 400' while sitting on top of the cache. I found the thing okay, but while I was signing the log, the GPS unit was pointing off toward the SSW and said those coordinates could be found 165' thataway....

Maybe more expensive units have better receivers or antennas. I assume the calculation units are pretty much interchangeable.