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.
