@dave-karoly We used to have a calculator like that; then my dad got a job.

Surveyors: There is nothing worse than pounding stakes on a dusty (or muddy) construction site all day long. I hate it with a passion. Also, Surveyor...

To be fair, that's basically describing the team that wrote the flood mapping algorithms at the "large international engineering firm" that holds the ...

Gonna start a side business writing prescriptions for painkillers and when I get arrested just argue I was only "drawing letters on paper"?ÿ?ÿ

@bill93 2.1 miles from my house

Someone needs my standard "Drafting is language to express information in the same way as speech and writing..." lecture

For monitoring projects it was like being a kid in a candy store when I went a dozen years ago.

Only 20 miles away, but too busy since I'll be on vacation the following week.?ÿ Still hope to win the raffle for the Sipe-Sumner compass in absentia?...

That's because they have written procedures Structural Deformation Surveying (army.mil)

There is a Maryland case where the court wrote that it's inconsequential if the pipe in question was originally set with the intent to mark the corner...

@notsomuch Nelson Super Spot Tree Marking Paint | Forestry Suppliers, Inc. (forestry-suppliers.com) ?ÿ

I used to always respond to the the question "why did you get into surveying?" with: ?ÿ For the groupies...I was misinformed.?ÿ ?ÿ

Carl's problem was always a failure to extract enough of that money to cover his costs.?ÿ

@gary_g Interesting, since I did a lot of them in the adjoining county.?ÿ We did stake a lot of houses that were on right on the property or building ...

A lot of the country has these things called basements (unlike Florida where the water table is like 36" below the surface). Counting on the mason to ...

@notsomuch pretty sure if something is listed these days as "solvent" based it's, for all intents and purposed, oil based.