Ray Skelton was a master with words. One passage in his book really stuck with me. Of course I'm paraphrasing, but he noted that when you were evalu...

You're going to do more harm than good by doing this. He will find out, and if you haven't spoken to him ahead of time and have some arrangement, the...

I capitalize cardinal directions. Past that, standard English if you please.

Yeah, that's good advice, but there are two that were totally skipped over.One, always be aware of "opportunity costs" and how to deal with them.Two, ...

I'd say you've done well Kris>> > But I'm happy with the way things turned out. And that's worth it all.Roger that! 🙂 Merry Christmas!

Many people claim they cannot achieve their goals in life. As for the ones that I've spoke with, most didn't have a clear "goal" or path to achieve i...

> In continuum of a previous blog titled "Re-definition" and the "The Fox is guarding the Hen House" article in the American Surveyor magazine, we ...

Boards Do Not Write Laws, They Carry Out Laws> So, no matter what a Surveying Board may think, thy cannot outthink the Law.> > Paul in PAAdmi...

> A longtime friend and I were talking over a couple beers this weekend. He is the owner of a consulting engineering firm.> > He was discussi...

I call those "Kitchen Table" descriptions. Ugh.

Put Some Lots Together:good:

As far as weird crap seen in the field, we once walked up on a person defecating in the center of a city, paved street. He didn't care that we walked...

I have done the same thing, mad. However, I didn't want to wait, so I called the company, told them to email me their coordinate file, when and got o...

> Where it makes mention that .."No house shall be constructed and occupied except by those of the white race"...:-XYeah, I've blown those off. Pr...

> I have. A reproduction one. 66' long, brass handle. > > I think it should be a REQUIREMENT for every PLS to drag one, for a mile. > >...

An old surveyor once told me "There are no "good decisions", only bad and mediocre decisions and the difference between them is research, unless you f...

Norman points out an excellent one that the NGS wrote. I refer to it from time to time.

> Im in college for land surveying, and in my surveying 3 class all were learning is sun shots. I'm just kind of wondering does anyone even do thes...