I've always thought "If you don't know where this is, why are you looking at the plan?"

When I was young and foolish, I did on occasion try slashing my prices during slow times to try to get work to pay the bills. I don't recall ever actu...

I used to use wood stakes (wedges or cut down 1"x1") with tacks, but they rot away quickly, and it's surprising how often you return 5 years later and...

I googled "What does a survey cost?" a few years ago, just to see what a client might find online. I remember finding someone giving a very authorita...

@mightymoe Don't run into the shadow squares on the way there... My favorite author but it's been decades since I read it.

@chris-bouffard I'm still waiting to earn enough money to upgrade my memory to 640k! Someday...

RE: When to use a Philly Rod vs a Linker Rod? In the 1960s...

For small lot site plans, most people locally prefer to see the street at the bottom of the sheet. To me, it seems like a more natural way to view the...

I don't know what you're complaining about. Finally, one of those handwashing sinks actually has some water in it. Funny color though...

The safe way is to have the sewer department come out and open it for you.

I'm going to have to check my basement, because I have most of that stuff. Have I been robbed? I even have instruments bought from Bunce. It dishear...

A book I highly recommend is Typography for Lawyers by Mathew Butterick: He has a free website version of much of the book here: It has vastly i...

This is one of the biggest problems I have working solo. It is much easier to see someone else's errors than your own. But one sure way to find your ...

When I was a teenager many decades ago, working for my dad, he would send us out in any weather - cold, rain snow, even darkness. "Yes, I really need ...

I came here looking for an inexpensive way to avoid a black eye. I am disappointed...

My favorite was an old deed from the early 1800s that read "starting at the point where the old fence post used to be..."

I can find other people's control points! All I have to do is set my own point, and after I've set up and shot everything I need from there, I look d...

What it was really like:

It was one of the first available scientific calculators, if I recall correctly. I think I was the first in my class to have one. It wasn't very reli...

I had to buy a slide rule in the mid 1970s for high school chemistry class. I spent the first semester learning how to use it, then received a Bowmar ...