An optimistic surveyor says to theirself:
"There is evidence out there".
Lets go tie it.
If this corner was set in 1840, there's got to be some evidence of it.
Did you bring a shovel?
Keep on digging.
Let's get the next deed.
Is there something we missed?
The pessimistic surveyor says to theirself:
There is no evidence left.
Nobody would go that next mile, or 1/2 mile.
The corner's gone.
There's no point to tying it.
Let's just scale it off the usgs.
Nobody will catch us.
Nobody's perfect.
I have a deadline to meet. No time to check it.
One fixed shot is good enough.
Who will ever know?
Who cares?
The pessimist leaves a "wake of destruction".
The optimist finds stuff, the pessimist missed.
For the rest of my career, I'm going to seek to be more optimistic, and pay back, to this great profession.
Whered 2016 go?
Dunno.
But 2017 is here.
Nate
Well, 2016 ended on two bars 3.4 apart both supposedly being the east quarter corner of my section. One has numerous surveys tied to it. The other was set by a distant survey crew doing thousands of section corners for the DOT who hated to contact local surveyors for information. Confusion has occurred in the intervening 30 years.
Nate The Surveyor, post: 406911, member: 291 wrote: An optimistic surveyor says to theirself:
"There is evidence out there".
Lets go tie it.
If this corner was set in 1840, there's got to be some evidence of it.
Did you bring a shovel?
Keep on digging.
Let's get the next deed.
Is there something we missed?The pessimistic surveyor says to theirself:
There is no evidence left.
Nobody would go that next mile, or 1/2 mile.
The corner's gone.
There's no point to tying it.
Let's just scale it off the usgs.
Nobody will catch us.
Nobody's perfect.
I have a deadline to meet. No time to check it.
One fixed shot is good enough.
Who will ever know?
Who cares?
The pessimist leaves a "wake of destruction".
The optimist finds stuff, the pessimist missed.For the rest of my career, I'm going to seek to be more optimistic, and pay back, to this great profession.
Whered 2016 go?
Dunno.
But 2017 is here.
Nate
Bah. Humbug.
Nate The Surveyor, post: 406911, member: 291 wrote: Whered 2016 go?
Dunno.
But 2017 is here.
As you age Natester, time accelerates much, much faster as you will experience.
And for you, believe it or not, there will become a time that ÛÏyou know whatÛ aka: Natester Junior and the Twins will no longer function. 😮
IÛªm already preparing to catch hell from SWMBO about writing the wrong year on checks. 🙁
Happy New Year to you and your beautiful family, and Kiss Rachel. 🙂
What wrong year? If the check says 2016 on it, it must have been written in 2016. ;);)