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This last weekend saw three more finds to our initial four and on the way home from errands this morning I nabbed two more. What’s neat about the two today is that they were unplanned and in a sense determined my path home from errands. Five caches were more or less on the direct route home, but not exactly so I had to deviate from my usual routes, which made a boring drive serendipitously more fun. It also made it unnecessarily longer, but we should stop to smell the roses (the name of one cache I did not find on the way home). Letting the geocaches plot my drive back led to lunch with Sara at a Greek restaurant near where one cache was hidden and stumbling upon a cool old  (seemingly defunct) building that may have been a bakery in the past. It was called “Communion Bread.” I happened to have with me at the time my Golden Half toy camera and my Dad’s old (c. 1960) Brownie Hawkeye Flash that I just dusted off loaded with 120 film yesterday (it originally took Kodak’s proprietary 620 film, but 120 loads fine if it still has a 620 take-up spool.) So, thanks to geocaching I got an unexpected photo shoot. Here’s my update log (Alan might be the only one who will appreciate it):

Not only is Chrome getting shinier, as of today Google Voice is much more functional on the iPhone. Google/iPhone geeks already know about Apple not allowing Google’s GV app this summer. That bummed me and millions of other GV users who had to rely on the mobile web site version if we wanted to use it on an iPhone. Well, Google just upgraded the mobile web-app version of GV using HTML5, which renders the web-app almost indistinguishable from a native iPhone app. Much smoother functioning and quasi-direct calling via GV number through some voip trickery. SMS texting works well too and is FREE (take that, AT&T!). About the only thing it can’t do that matters is access the iPhone’s native Contacts list. Instead, it has to rely on your Google Contacts, but if you’re smart and set your Apple Address Book contacts to sync with your Google Contacts (in Address preferences), then you should be okay. I appreciate Google finding a viable workaround to Apple’s hamfisted telecom app policy. Feels weird, however, that Apple is The Man in this case.