@rich-leu?ÿ ?ÿHA!?ÿ ?ÿYou can tell what I thought of it!?ÿ ?ÿMichael Binge wasn't looking too thrilled either!
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good times...
Had the pleasure of entertaining RADU at our house for a couple of days in 2004, what an honor.
He was the best of the best!
I met Richard at least once in Dallas and on the way to dropping him off at his hotel, took him on a drive down the Kennedy 1963 parade route through downtown Dallas to the School Book Depository. As we passed under the triple underpass, I hit the gas and we booked it to the ER bay of Parkland Hospital. He told me how much of an impact JFK's presidency and assassination had on his youth and thanked me for the brief detour.
Saw him again at the Red Dirt Seminar in Lawton Oklahoma where he introduced us to the phrase "cock up" and made some blue-haired county clerk assistants blush.
Also got to connect at the meet-up in Tucson where the digeridoo was present to JOT and I got to see a jarrah peg.
I wish I could have taken him up on his invitation to visit Adelaide, but Kyoto is the closest I ever got before he was diagnosed.?ÿ
Best Regards, RADU.
Here's our RADU's Obituary.?ÿ ???? ???? 
@noodles, I got a page-not-found error on your link.
Here is one from the funeral home.> https://alfredjames.com.au/funeral-notices/abbott-richard-poole/
Services start in about 2-1/2 hours.
Like others I enjoyed his posts and knowledge.?ÿ He will be missed.
So sorry to hear of his passing.?ÿ One of my favorite posters from the old boards.
I saw the original notice when he said he was going offline.
But it is somehow a surprise to see that he passed.
Memories:
I followed his postings for years.
I met him in person at the 2009 ACSM meeting. I was showing groups of surveyors around to see the sights in the Salt Lake City area. (: Including the "famous" trek to see Utah's POB monument. 🙂
We hit it off, and my wife and I had dinner with him... He impressed her too.
He lived in Adelaide Australia (home of the Torrens title system), where they never get snow, so I took him and a few out of town surveyors up the tram at snowbird. Given that it was about 104 F (40 C) in Adelaide a few days prior, the contrast was extreme for him.
He impressed, and took lots of pictures home to his friends. Lots of pictures of someone digging a car out of a 10 foot high snow drift.
He had me take a picture of him at Snowbird where he could walk down a sidewalk with vertical snow walls on both sides. He wanted it to send it back to friends back in Adelaide. I also took him to the western edge of the Uinta mountains. They were impressive to him... probably because Adelaide has no forests. And he seemed to really like visiting the hot springs in Salt Lake City. (North Gateway park N 400 W). All the while getting pictures of the ever present balls.
I'll miss him, and his stories of surveying in Australia.
We kept in touch... and years later he had a picture calendar on his wall from a women's brewing group here in Salt Lake. [My daughter in law was a member, and selling them was a fund raising effort.]
