Monday, April 2, 2007

Convincing a Spouse to Waymark

You all know that I've been working on my husband to get him a little more excited about waymarking. Well on Sunday, April 1st, he decided to poke around on the waymarking site to see what's there. At first I thought it was a cruel April Fool's joke. He'd come running upstairs and say "let's go waymark some sculpture, J!" and we'd end up at the dump or something (which is a bad example because in King County, Washington the dumps DO have great sculpture). But he was for real. In fact he came up with a list of favorite categories - took notes and everything. Here's his list:

Immortalized by Lyrics - This is his number one. It came as no surprise to me. This is a man who spends hours on itunes or lyrics.com. On rare occasions he will actually sit through a disco song. Whether to torture me or because he's actually enjoying it, I'm not sure.
Border Crossings - Again, no surprise. He has a college degree in Geography and worked on a survey team through college, and when he's not on itunes or lyrics.com or listening to disco he's staring at maps.
Names from the Bible - Now this one threw me. This from a man who describes himself as a born-again atheist.
Devilish Locations - Okay, now this makes much more sense. THIS is the man I married.
Places of Geologic Significance - We hike and camp a lot in the Summer so this is one the whole family can enjoy.
Your Name Here - I think he likes this one because it's so easy for him. The only way I'd find a sign with my name on it is if I painted one myself and stuck it in the front yard. Hey, would that work??? ;)
Corporate Headquarters - When this category first came through peer review I'll admit I was skeptical. When I mentioned the category to him he thought it was one of the coolest categories that I'd told him about. He likes it so much that he's actually turned me around and has me thinking of when I can get to some of the other big corporations in the region.

He has two "Immortalized by Lyrics" waymarks scoped out that we'll find this weekend. So, 7 categories out of 496's not bad. It's a start. I'll turn him around yet!

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