A literal one.?ÿ I dreamed I had?ÿ done a lot survey and was showing some of my relatives the corners.?ÿ When we got to one of the corners I saw my shiny new capped rebar surrounded by no less than 6 other monuments of various descriptions, all older than mine.?ÿ I couldn't figure out why I had set that rebar, let alone how I had determined where the corner was.?ÿ I was quite relieved to wake up.
Sounds like a vacation is soon to be in your future!?ÿ?ÿ 😉
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As a matter of fact, I booked the flights last week!
The curse of the Surveyor...dreaming about projects!
Sounds like the surveyor's form of the standard anxiety dream.?ÿ
In college (and after) you dream that you have to get to a final exam but dont know where it is because you haven't attended any of the classes.
People dream about being stranded somewhere with no clothes on.?ÿ
After many years of setting up sound reinforcement for concerts, I sometimes dream that a show is about to start and I dont know what mics and instrument inputs to set up, and can't find my equipment. My wife performed for a small event recently and we discovered we were missing a crucial cable.?ÿ Fortunately it was close enough to home that I made the trip with 5 minutes to spare and the show went on. Only time in recent memory I've come up short. But I had an anxiety dream about such things soon after.
So if surveying is on your mind, it isnt surprising pincushions,?ÿ lost data, or not being able to find the right lot would be the form your anxieties take.
One of my old business partners recounted when he was a neophyte rodman on a City?ÿ Survey crew that went out to preserve a quarter corner monument at a street intersection. Everything was new to him and he watched and participate with great interest as the crew drove nails into power poles and chiseled "+" is curbs. He was fascinated to see them carefully measure from the rebar marking the quarter corner to each of these "reference monuments" and understand as the crew chief explained how the monument marking the quarter corner could be replaced in "exactly" the same location after construction.
The survey crew went over and sat on the curb and watched the backhoe start to pull up great slabs of asphalt. It finally got to the monument area and pulled up a big slab of asphalt containing the quarter corner monument. He could still remember decades later the confusion in his mind when the underside of the slab revealed 5 pipes and rebars sticking out of the bottom in about a 3-foot circle! The crew chief cleared the confusion when he explained that the monument they had referenced was the "Real one" because it was the only one visible on the surface...
the monument they had referenced was the "Real one" because it was the only one visible on the surface
I've done a few monument preservation projects that required a procedure similar to Mohs surgery:?ÿ tie out a monument, dig down to the next one, tie out that one, dig to the next, repeat as necessary.?ÿ I found 4 of them at one corner, each about half a foot deeper than the one prior.?ÿ I called the deepest one the corner and noted the relationship to the others on the filed map.
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