I thank Jon Angliss (@j_angliss) for my only physical activity beyond changing out the laundry today.

We started talking about his latest geeky interest: geocaching. I must have been interested in geocaching at some point because when I hit the geocaching.com site the ‘mrxinu’ user was already registered. I retrieved my password and checked around my house for the nearest cache. Bingo.

Heck yes, it even had a geeky name.

So I grab Ivy and we bundle up and grab a flashlight. We got in the general vicinity based on the surrounding streets on the map and then I tried to use the Google Maps app on my iPhone to dial it in. I think we got really close, but being dark and rainy we weren’t able to find it.

Precision seemed to be the biggest issue. It turns out that Groundspeak’s Geocaching iPhone Application sorts that out and will not only tell you where the nearest caches are but when X marks the spot. It costs $9.99. I’m going to pick it up as soon as my phone gets done patching because evidently I haven’t connected to iTunes in a while.

For now this post gets punted to the uncategorized bucket, but if this geocaching thing turns into a GeekFit habit, you can expect to hear about many exploits all over the country.