tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38168602024-03-14T00:32:34.157-05:00The Wayward Hatch'wA-w&rd - adjective<br>
1 : following one's own capricious, wanton, or depraved inclinations : Ungovernable<br>
2 : following no clear principle or law : Unpredictable<br>
3 : opposite to what is desired or expected : UntowardWayward Hatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03570663283489154363noreply@blogger.comBlogger719125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816860.post-43806176910805643922023-10-31T17:29:00.007-05:002023-10-31T17:30:37.850-05:00Mastering Anger with Stoicism: Finding Calm in the UnknownIn today's fast-paced world, it's not uncommon to find oneself grappling with feelings of anger without a clear understanding of the source. The confusion and frustration that accompany these feelings can be overwhelming. However, the ancient philosophy of Stoicism provides a roadmap to navigate these turbulent emotions, offering tools and insights that remain strikingly relevant today. Drawing Wayward Hatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03570663283489154363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816860.post-7009384626229882402023-07-08T18:16:00.005-05:002023-07-08T18:16:47.614-05:00Hatch's Cave ListI almost lost my cave list a month ago when Google did something strange. I was able to recover it after spending several hours looking at the cache. It's backed up at several spots now, so hopefully that won't happen again. I haven't been to a new cave yet this year. I need to change that soon.
Hatch's Cave ListWayward Hatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03570663283489154363noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816860.post-39478673540909265772023-07-07T15:31:00.004-05:002023-07-07T15:31:34.258-05:00New Book: Acetylene Gas At the recent NSS Convention I met several authors who are also cavers. One of them was Dwight Livingston, a caver from Maryland. He read an excerpt to us.From the Description:"Young teacher and historian Terry Potzlikowitz suffers an unlikely home improvement accident and finds himself pitted against a gang of desperate project cavers deep inside the largest cave in the world. Alone, Wayward Hatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03570663283489154363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816860.post-38970014243157540002023-06-12T17:16:00.004-05:002023-06-12T17:19:55.371-05:00Choose Fulfillment Over HappinessIn our journey through life, it's important to reconsider our aspirations and shift our focus. During this time of reflection, we often receive well-intentioned yet outdated advice, particularly when it comes to our careers. The idea that happiness should be our ultimate objective has been ingrained in us, but some experts argue that setting our sights on fulfillment is a more valuable pursuit. Wayward Hatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03570663283489154363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816860.post-64179188280421012242022-12-01T23:16:00.000-06:002022-12-01T23:16:33.730-06:00Wayward Hatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03570663283489154363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816860.post-25239691620143936882019-09-29T18:01:00.000-05:002019-09-29T18:01:03.019-05:00Cave #42: Snail Shell Cave
Jack and I woke up at 7:30 this morning and headed out, stopping first at Waffle House in Hermitage for a quick breakfast then heading down 840 towards Murfreesboro to meet John, Joe, and Mason at the SCCi Snail Shell Cave Preserve. John had organized the permit, and we all made it to the parking area at roughly the same time. After taking about half an hour to get ready and get our Wayward Hatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03570663283489154363noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816860.post-86608514614451796562019-07-16T22:24:00.000-05:002019-07-17T22:13:12.979-05:00Cave #18: Camps Gulf Cave (Second Visit)
The Nashville Grotto had originally planned to visit Camps Gulf Cave in Van Buren County, Tennessee on July 13, 2019 but the trip leader decided to change the date to the next Saturday. I had been looking forward to going and had already gotten a permit for that day online, so when my friends Zeke and Calla told me that some people from the Spencer Mountain Grotto were also going Wayward Hatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03570663283489154363noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816860.post-71898329221095272982019-06-26T16:50:00.004-05:002019-06-26T16:50:57.697-05:00Cave #28: Kennamer Cave I've been easing back into caving the last few months, taking Jack to some of the caves I've visited before, but itching to get into some new caves. I had been in contact with my old friend Gary Barnes from the Birmingham Grotto, who took me on my first wild cave trip to Sinking Cove back in the summer of 2000. We had planned to go to a few caves, and the destination changed a few times until we Wayward Hatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03570663283489154363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816860.post-19295308140455638752018-11-06T14:37:00.002-06:002019-02-17T23:02:47.092-06:00Cave # 5: Cedar Ridge Crystal Cave (Third Visit)
I've been working hard over the last year or so to lose weight and get back into caving shape. In that time I've lost over 100 lbs and walked almost 200 miles in September of this year. Unfortunately, near the end of that month I developed some severe pain in my left arch that left me walking about half as much every day and stalled out my weight loss. I really wanted to go back to Wayward Hatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03570663283489154363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816860.post-31498517853215749902018-05-17T17:35:00.000-05:002018-05-17T17:35:31.498-05:00Page Factory in C# - Dealing with Frames and LatencyOne of the issues we've been having with our new C# framework that utilizes PageFactory is that the pages did not automatically check to see if they were loaded with an IsLoaded() type method. We tried various schemes to alleviate this, but in the end after a lot of online searches I discovered that the PageFactory.InitElements() method can be overloaded in multiple ways:
Wayward Hatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03570663283489154363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816860.post-41029227256631930452018-04-30T13:08:00.000-05:002018-04-30T13:08:06.005-05:00Thompson Falls
We had dinner with my mother at Top 'O The Lake in Guntersville on Saturday afternoon, and when we finished we still had several hours of daylight left so I pulled up Google Maps on my phone and searched for "waterfall". It brought up several that were nearby and I picked Thompson Falls on Mink Creek and we headed that way. It was about a 15 minute drive and the "road" to turn off to getWayward Hatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03570663283489154363noreply@blogger.com0Thompson Falls, Alabama 35976, USA34.314538 -86.422208233.9740365 -87.0676552 34.6550395 -85.7767612tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816860.post-25257484375636286332017-01-25T13:59:00.002-06:002017-01-25T13:59:38.774-06:00Two Years?Heff! It's been two years since I updated this blog. I miss the old days of the Blog Wars. I even miss Big Bill. Ah well, life goes on.
I'm a grandfather now. My little Leo is a little over 12 weeks old now. I'm still incredibly fat, but I'm also working on that.
This week also featured the passage of a small kidney stone on Tuesday morning. It started late Monday night and I finally passed it Wayward Hatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03570663283489154363noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816860.post-67450207996052036912015-02-07T21:00:00.003-06:002015-02-07T21:00:17.268-06:00Tension, Apprehension, and DissensionLast night I finished reading The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester for probably the third or fourth time in my life. For some reason I never really remember all the details of this book when I start reading it again. It's like a Level 1 has gone in and "demolished" that part of my memory. As always, it was an excellent read. I'll need to pick up The Stars My Destination for another reread sometimeWayward Hatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03570663283489154363noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816860.post-19577144743331861532013-09-12T17:39:00.000-05:002013-09-12T17:39:22.724-05:00Kaijudo Tournament #2I showed up at the Game Cave again tonight for the weekly Kaijudo tournament. I was using the fire/nature rush deck again, with a few more twinks made to it. I won the first round 2-0 after teaching someone how to play. In the next round I came up against a tough control deck but managed to win the second game after I got some cheap cards out quick. I still lost 2-1.
In Wayward Hatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03570663283489154363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816860.post-15816430632991273012013-09-04T21:04:00.003-05:002013-09-04T21:12:23.005-05:00Kaijudo Tournament #1So last week I bought Jack and I each a starter deck for Kaijudo, which is a recent game put out by Wizards of the Coast, who also produce Magic: The Gathering. A new gaming store called The Game Cave has recently opened up very close to my house, so I decided to head down there tonight and check out the Kaijudo tournament.
I took my Bull Rush deck, which is primarily an aggressive deck Wayward Hatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03570663283489154363noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816860.post-43992626493972875022013-09-02T19:22:00.002-05:002013-09-02T19:22:35.270-05:00Legendary: Marvel Deck Building GameI showed up at the new gaming store in Hermitage called The Game Cave this past Saturday and thanks to my friend David Lowry I got to play Legendary: Marvel Deckbuilding Game for the first time, which also included the Dark City expansion.
I'm not normally much of a card game person, but it's hard to avoid them these days. I did enjoy this game however, and five of us managed to beat Wayward Hatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03570663283489154363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816860.post-66650530396933615382011-12-29T14:11:00.003-06:002011-12-29T14:11:27.730-06:00Why, Bucky, Why?It's been quite a while, but recent events have led me to the conclusion that a new round of Bucky Bombing may commence soon.Wayward Hatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03570663283489154363noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816860.post-37272776407869903312011-05-22T14:11:00.002-05:002011-05-22T14:20:31.042-05:00Lookout Mountain HikingWow, my first post of 2011. I tend to do small posts on Facebook more now, so feel free to look me up there.I was working in Chattanooga last week and staying at the Marriott. I've been doing a lot of walking for the last two months, and I've gotten my daily average up to about 6 miles, and have hit 7.5 miles on several days during recent weeks.Since it doesn't get dark in Chattanooga until Wayward Hatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03570663283489154363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816860.post-4840616526540529762010-10-18T15:04:00.003-05:002010-10-18T15:13:16.578-05:00Weird Fortune Cookie MessageSeen this past weekend in a fortune cookie at Swin on The Strip in Tuscaloosa:"Greed rips the bag."Your guess is as good as mine.Wayward Hatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03570663283489154363noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816860.post-72577828405308682532010-07-27T10:19:00.016-05:002010-08-02T00:28:08.313-05:00Cave #25 - Long Island Saltpeter Cave (Chasing Old Rosy)In early September, 1863, William S. Rosecrans was doing well in life. He had risen rapidly through the ranks of the US Army and was in command of the Army of the Cumberland. He had recently defeated Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg at the Battle of Stones River and during the Tullahoma Campaign, and was now closing in on the city of Chattanooga. On Sept. 5, 1863, the day before his 44th Wayward Hatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03570663283489154363noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816860.post-32575388403552884702010-05-29T14:14:00.004-05:002010-05-29T14:17:14.653-05:00Hey Hatch, is that a Snake on Your Fence or Are You Just Happy to See Me?Marissa saw two snakes in our yard today, including this rat snake on our fence. He went to the back of the house a few minutes later and I was trying to lift him up with a rake he decided to crawl up into the siding by the back deck.Wayward Hatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03570663283489154363noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816860.post-58184262856005282992010-05-05T14:00:00.002-05:002010-05-05T14:03:45.900-05:00Truckstop EntertainmentI heard this several months ago while waiting in line at a Subway in a truckstop in north Alabama, but it stuck with me so I thought I'd share.A young woman enters, stage left."Momma! Daddy said for you to get away from the quarter machines! Back up off of 'em!"Wayward Hatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03570663283489154363noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816860.post-60697647719585195442010-05-05T13:42:00.003-05:002010-05-05T13:46:46.059-05:00CSX Nashville Flood DamageHere's a picture I took behind my friend Paul's house out in western Davidson county near the Harpeth river. Everything you see was under water this past weekend. The picture quality isn't great, but you can see the large piles of gravel that used to make up the rail bed. Above that you can see the track hanging in mid-air. Just to the left of this scene is the bridge where the railway Wayward Hatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03570663283489154363noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816860.post-58713473352811440922010-04-14T15:58:00.001-05:002010-04-14T16:00:00.290-05:00Hatch in Your DreamsThis email was waiting for me in my inbox this morning from and old college friend Nate:So, I recently started some new medication that has me sleeping much deeper than normal, dreaming much more, and having much more vivid recollection of my dreams. Last night, Hatch made an appearance. Through some unlikely combination of factors, Hatch and I ended up at the same Middle/Jr. High school, waitingWayward Hatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03570663283489154363noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816860.post-48489788573068957962010-02-24T12:14:00.002-06:002010-02-24T12:34:57.242-06:00Top 10 Things Heff Didn't Accomplish During His Blog BreakHeff recently took a break from blogging after complaining he wasn't able to get enough done due to all the work maintaining a blog involved. Let's look at the Top 10 things Heff was NOT able to get done during his 4 month break, shall we?10. Uncle Chris and Bamatrav protein samples still under the couch in the basement.9. Three month supply of Rogaine is still stacked up in the closet.8. Wayward Hatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03570663283489154363noreply@blogger.com1