*sheepishly* Once
I think it was on a previous forum that I responded to a post about leaving tools on the job "It's too embarrassing to admit on a public forum what I reported to the police as stolen before I remembered where I'd left it."
Although not equipment related (I've got one of those stories, which I posted a couple of years ago), we sometimes get international colleagues staying here at various hotels around the place, and meet-and-greet them. The usual default MO at the hotels here is that they deny all knowledge of any booking of anyone. So, prepared with this knowledge, one time I sailed off to meet a guy at his hotel and asked reception to call his room. Zip, no one of that name exists. So I blast them, dodge security, and march over to the room, knock on the door. A family of five tourists answer. They must have put him in another room. So I leave with a parting curse at reception and go back to the office to retrieve my phone and the guy's contact details. Half way through the five minute drive to the office it dawned on me that I'd gone to the wrong hotel, so I turned around, went to the correct hotel, and there he was.
RE: Are you asleep yet?
Y'all parents/grandparents remember these fun times..... ?????ÿ
Left a GPS base unit in a field one day an hours drive from the office.?ÿ Never so glad to see those lights sill blinking when I got there to pick it up after dark.
Yes, ink.?ÿ I always work in ink.?ÿ Don't tell the survey gods who insist pencil only should be used with no erasures.
Back in the fieldbook days I lost a fieldbook from its belt holster jumping over a creek and watched it go downstream. Four months later a fisherman found it and returned it to the County undamaged *except* the inked notations were essentially illegible but my pencil notations were still crystal clear.?ÿ Thank God it was a Write in the Rain bound book or it would have been mush.
Got started using only ink because of my crossword condition.?ÿ If I filled in with pencil I could go back and erase any wrong guesses.?ÿ When working in ink, nothing was entered unless I was certain that the entry was correct.
I still have notebooks full of my handwritten notes from all of my college classes.?ÿ Most are in blue ink, some in black.?ÿ Very easy to read after nearly 50 years compared to the blandness of pencil.
They could make a TV show out of my hoarding tendencies.?ÿ OH...........WAIT.................They already did.?ÿ They are working up to tackling me someday.
We've just got a Samsung tablet and it has an S-pen so you can hand write on the screen, and it even makes a lovely soft scratching noise to simulate the sound of a pencil on paper.
