Sunday, July 26, 2009

The Weight

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It's easier for me to write a 10,000-word story or script than to summarize the idea in 500 words or less—and still convey a sense of ch...
Saturday, July 18, 2009

What Are You Waiting For?!

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Wow. I was only 10 years old at the time, but I remember the Apollo 11 mission about as vividly as I remember anything in my life. The majes...
Sunday, July 12, 2009

Happy Barfday to Mrs Death

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The missus and her friend Davina have their birthdays on the same day this week, so there was a big old party in their honor last night. T...
Friday, July 10, 2009

Martinsville Cache-a-Latte

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Geocachers tend to be a most excellent species of social animal, and frequently gather together in herds to eat, drink, and swap tales of th...
Saturday, July 4, 2009

Geocaching Featured in the Martinsville Bulletin

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It's just a weenie piece, but they did use a quote of mine (out of a twenty-minute-long interview). Fair little article. High-Tech Tr...

The Big G of July

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"G" for Godzilla, of course. With G-Fest happening in Chicago, but it not being in the cards for either friend Bill Mann or myself...
Friday, June 26, 2009

What a Racket!

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Mark and Kim at the Garage, Winston-Salem, 6-24-09.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Journey to the Centre of the Earth

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There's a nice new multi-cache in town called " Greensboro Underground ," and guess where you get to hunt. Yes...dow...
Saturday, June 20, 2009

It's Just Over Yonder

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Photo by Rob Isenhour Until I became a geocachevangelist, I had no idea how many ancient, rusted-out vehicles lurked back in the deep wo...
Thursday, June 18, 2009

Noticed on the Way Home From the Office:

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A van for a home-repair business. Van had little paint left on it, a crushed fender, and insulation erupting from a long, ugly gash below th...
Sunday, June 14, 2009

Good Times and Good Byes

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Caching along the Dan River with Krazi Tribe, Mrs Death, and Snoopinaround It was quite the weekend for gathering with good friends and ...
Sunday, June 7, 2009

Shades of "Sticks"

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I've said it many times: geocaching takes me to some damn cool places, few of which I would otherwise discover on my own. Today, I e...
Thursday, June 4, 2009

More Horror Than the Heart Can Stand

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Mein Gott, the Noise II—For Real!

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Not terribly great quality—just taken with my digital camera—but here's a glimpse of last night's horror, courtesy of yours truly an...
Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Mein Gott, the Noise!

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It's been a hellishly long time since I've played guitar and hollered in public, but I'm gonna up and do it. Yep. The Garage, 1...
Sunday, May 31, 2009

Back From ConCarolinas

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The con started out slow for me, but picked up nicely yesterday. Sold some books, yakked on panels, got with friends. Possible new developme...
Friday, May 29, 2009

Relative Obscurity...

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...is infinitely preferable to the idiocy of Kanye West, CFM.* Kanye West Is a Proud Non-Reader, Author of Books *Certified Fucking Moron
Thursday, May 28, 2009

At ConCarolinas This Weekend...

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I'll be a guest at ConCarolinas in Charlotte this weekend (Saturday 5/30 and Sunday 5/31), so come see me. I'll be on several panel...
Sunday, May 24, 2009

Deer Island

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It's become an annual tradition to spend Memorial Day weekend camping on Deer Island at Philpott Lake, VA, along with a mess o' fr...
Sunday, May 17, 2009

Are You a phD YET?

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Geocaching has introduced me to a vast number of interesting, talented, and all-around wonderful people. Just over a year ago, while on the ...
Friday, May 15, 2009

Fireman in the House!

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Blogging, Facebooking, My Spacing, Tweeting, etc., etc., have not entirely slipped out of my repertoire, but daily activities and responsibi...
Saturday, May 9, 2009

Trekkin' Across the Universe

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I've always had something of a soft spot for Star Trek. Grew up on the original series, enjoyed most of the movies, thought The Next Ge...
Saturday, May 2, 2009

Somewhere My Love and the Old Dude

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A nice birthday surprise for the old man—my story, "Somewhere My Love," is now posted in issue #12 of Orson Scott Card's Inte...
Thursday, April 30, 2009

Walpurgis-Cache!

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In certain shadowy corners of the world, the night of April 30 is known as Walpurgisnacht —the Witches' Sabbath. Whoa, scary, right? Wel...
Saturday, April 25, 2009

Cleanup

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For an old fart, I burned a lot of energy over the past couple of days. Yesterday, got off work early, came to Martinsville, and planted fiv...
Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Family History

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My mom and my wife both get excited about genealogy, but the bug has never bitten me. Not much, anyway. Still, now and again, it's inter...
Thursday, April 16, 2009

I've Got Blisters on Me Fingers!

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Long ago and far away, I used to play me git-fiddle religiously—much to the chagrin of anyone within earshot. The past few days, I've fe...
Saturday, April 11, 2009

04-11-01: My Dear Dad

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Eight years ago tonight, my dad passed away. Over many years, complications from diabetes gradually debilitated him, until finally his body ...
Monday, April 6, 2009

New Interview at The Occult Detective

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Author Bob Freeman was kind enough to interview me for his Occult Detective blog. Check it out here: Author Spotlight: Stephen Mark Rainey ...
Thursday, April 2, 2009

It's Where?

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Another fun trek into the bowels of the earth to hunt up a new geocache. Above, it was pouring rain, but down below, it was just kind of wet...
Sunday, March 29, 2009

The Spooky Trail!

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Actually, it's not terribly spooky, at least in daylight, but it sure does have some atmosphere. The new Fieldale Smith River Trail, jus...
Monday, March 23, 2009

R.I.P. Luther 1992–2009

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My brother Phred's goodest ol' friend, Luther, passed on today. He was a sweet, sweet dog—pretty much a real nephew to me. Luther ...
Sunday, March 22, 2009

Randleman Outing

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Mrs Death accompanied me on a nice evening trip to Randleman, a little town just down the road a piece, to hunt for a passel of caches. We f...
Friday, March 20, 2009

I Didn't Fall in Today

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I really like the Greensboro watershed trails; there's many miles of them around the various lakes to the north of town. They make for f...