Eventful weekend

No caches found this weekend but two geocaching events - one attended, one hosted...

On Saturday, we celebrated Saint Patrick's day by attending the Kiss me I'm (not Jeremy) Irish! event hosted by Marky and Joani. Lucie was a little disappointed not to see her friends the Lil' Checkers (they were out of town) but made a new friend (mfc the story teller). She kept eating his chips and inquiring about his missing finger.
I came home with two new geocoins : the new "Kiss me I'm Irish coin" minted just for the event, and a "California Poppy micro", which is not new but which I've always found cool. I don't know yet whether I'm going to activate them or not.

On Sunday night, I hosted a "GoogleEarth" event at the Los Altos library. I think about 40 people showed up. A very challengig but interesting event to host. People in the audience came from different backgrounds. Some were software engineers, some were not familar with computers... This made it difficult to properly address everyone at once. I think my French accent also made things a little tougher.
But the worse part was the library network that was shut down at the library closing time. Yes, the room is available on Sunday night until 11 pm. Yes, the library has wireless internet access. But I incorrevtly inferred from this that the network was available until 11 pm. It was shut down at 6 pm. Ugh...
Fortunately, EyeOb had a web access through his cell phone and I could finish presenting the course material from his PC. This saved the day. However, we could not do the "hands on" part I really wanted to do. I'm now thinking of hosting an other event sometimes this Fall, where there will be no formal "course", only a "hands-on" workshop...

But for now, I'll focus on other and more immediate geocaching projects : setting up a hike around Devil's Hole in Las Trampas park, and continue designing my future geocoin.