@noodles?ÿ Had the pleasure of taking RADU on a tour of Tucson some years ago, showing him the saguaros. Wonderful, interesting man.?ÿ

My favorite, as I related years ago on the other site, was the client who asked if I could send him some additional prints of the ALTA survey. Me: I c...

I had a happy solution for everyone, including me: The buildings are not numbered. The building labels shown (Building A) are arbitrary and for identi...

I was doing a series of surveys in California, and found a nice motel just a block from the site in Laguna Beach. When I called to make a reservation ...

@norman-oklahoma?ÿ A week later they got their act together and I had a correct title report. Other than that, no apology. I would have been mortified...

World's best client. They rarely ask how much, just want me to go do it, and pay by return mail. This is a note I sent them last month because the tit...

What astonishes me is that we are so near the year 2022. That used to be the stuff of science fiction, way, way in the future. When I was a teenager I...

@bill93?ÿ Well, yes, going by the number of our peers who can't seem to dig for monuments, I'd say basic shovel instruction is necessary. This is anot...

Best hint I ever saw was the message on the bottom of an upturned bucket down two feet: Keep going, you're almost there.

No matter where you are, cut a limb off a tree and I guarantee the owner will claim that is the tree that grandpa planted in 1945 when he came?ÿ back ...

@gene-kooper?ÿ Hiya Gene. I used the horizontal metal detector trick on this site, but the pipe was too deep compared to the nearby chain link fence. ...

I ruined a Leica 1200 rover keyboard display by gently patting it with a paper towel after a light rain. And I mean ruined, as in opaque.

I get a lot of work from clients frustrated by surveyors who won't work more than 40 hours a week, if that. I'm more a make hay while the sun shines g...