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(@paden-cash)
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I just got off the phone with another surveyor that I have known for years. Earlier today he had been contacted by a residential developer that has been around for years, but rather inactive the last four or five.

The developer was trying to pick his brain about finding a good engineering firm to handle a 75 acre development. Everybody my buddy could think of was either dead or retired. He called me for input.

The conversation rolled on like this:

"What about old whats-his-name?"

"Sold out back in '07 to his son-in-law. They're all structural over there now."

"Is old numb-nuts still working?"

"Retired. His wife passed away and I heard he's in Phoenix."

"What about the Cheatham Group?"

"Sold out to an environmental outfit. They're out of the development game."

After all these years I guess I have no idea who's in the civil game around town. I'm sure there is a mess of them, but I don't know a soul anymore. Kind of an uncomfortable feeling.

I guess it's just another letter added to the "hand-writing-on-the-wall"...:-/

 
Posted : July 7, 2014 12:39 pm
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> I guess it's just another letter added to the "hand-writing-on-the-wall"

So, are you thinking that not knowing any engineers is a *bad* thing? :>

 
Posted : July 7, 2014 2:42 pm
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that's a good angle..

..from which to look at the situation!

That might even cheer my evening up a little bit. 😉

 
Posted : July 7, 2014 3:31 pm
(@greg-shoults-rpls)
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that's a good angle..

I'll double Kents angle

 
Posted : July 9, 2014 6:40 pm
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that's a good angle..

Good. Always double your angles I always say:-D

 
Posted : July 9, 2014 6:45 pm
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that's a good angle..

Any older dude that still can push his out-of-fuel motorcycle to the next gas bar is in pretty good shape in my books...

 
Posted : July 9, 2014 7:19 pm