The earlier thread about "gifts that keep on giving" got me to thinking.
Over the last 12 months I have had three "old" projects re-emerge from the past. All three date back to the mid-late 1990s, and range from 300 miles to 600 miles distant from here. One of them (1996) has pretty much been a yearly proposition all these years, one of them pops up every few years, and the other has been dormant (for me) since the late 1990s.
I had to fire up my Windoz 95 laptop to find data on one of them this week (300 GPS observation files), and try and get my head BACK into a late 1990s. Although I can remember some of the actual occupations (static GPS), and a few specific "adventures" during the project (which actually go back into the 1970s on that project), I'm still somewhat vague on some of the big picture aspects. There is about 6000 vertical feet in that project, and it covers about 100 square miles.?ÿ
Did I turn off the coffee pot this morning??? I'd better check!
Loyal?ÿ
"Grandpa said you were the guy to call for my project.?ÿ Told me you only charged him $100 for his project back in 1978."
Please accept my, ahem, deepest sympathies, when the crocodile tears flow whilst filling out the deposit slip. ?????ÿ
When I retire, all the paper files will be burned and all thd computer files will suffer a crash.
A few years (8?) ago I was working on a large job I had done back around 2001 or 2002.?ÿ I dug around on the old computer (Win95) and found my 'working' drawing.?ÿ I had done a lot of the control work with Ashtech Promarks and had even tried out some "rapid-static" on some drainage structures.
When I had my new field work completed I dropped it in the old original drawing.?ÿ I was really surprised how well the data lined up.?ÿ At the time I didn't feel confident enough to use that data and opted to grab it all with a TS.?ÿ Found out it was "good enough" after all.
PS - I still have my Win95 cpu sitting just feet from where I sit.?ÿ Every time I fire it up it's like a trip down "memory lane".?ÿ ;)?ÿ?ÿ
I recently did a settlement monitoring survey on a landfill that I first started working on in 1994.?ÿ In the interim I've done topos for design of new waste management units, staking for same, volume monitoring, and about 5 years ago a closure survey.?ÿ That project has spanned nearly my entire career as a business owner.?ÿ I get kind of nostalgic now whenever I'm out there.