Geocaching and a cool pasta trick My roommates recently took me out to the countryside for geocaching and it was so much fun! Today I went around searching for caches in the city by myself and this was also a great experience. I enjoy being out on my own. When I moved here I roamed the city a lot, listening to music and thinking. It is essentially how I used to spend my weekends, and there's still smething magical and restorative about it to me. Now, back from the cache hunt I'm quite hungry and I have a pot of pasta boiling on the stove. I recently learned that you can make pasta essentially with only the residual heat of the pot (so with the burners turned off) once the water is boiling, given that you cover the pot! This saves energy, which is good for the environment!