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RE: Roman Surveyors

I've read several stories about the construction of the Roman aqueducts and tunnels that herald their ability to maintain the accuracy required to bui...

3 years ago
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RE: You know why you no see?

@bruce-small?ÿ On deeper than usual holes I always leave four or five streamers of flagging from the deep pin draped up the side of the hole as I bac...

3 years ago
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RE: You know why you no see?

I'm guessing finding a monument without a pin-finder is becoming one of the "lost arts" that plague our profession.?ÿ I remember a silent hand gesture...

3 years ago
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RE: Chris Wickern

Rest in peace Chris.?ÿ

3 years ago
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RE: Crappy Monday

--it happens.?ÿ At least you've got a shovel handy.?ÿ 😉

3 years ago
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RE: Persimmon picking time

I haven't been lucky enough to find any persimmons yet this season.?ÿ Maybe there's still time before the raccoons get them all. My grandmother used ...

3 years ago
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RE: Who invented this term and why?

Who invented those phrases? Haven't the foggiest...

3 years ago
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RE: Old school skills

Sometimes an AutoCad regen was unavoidable.?ÿ I can remember walking downstairs to the Coke machine (it cost a quarter for a 10oz. bottle) and walking...

3 years ago
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RE: Old school skills

@squirl?ÿ 2% seems like a low number for my family.?ÿ One of my brothers and my sister are all left handed as was my mother and her father.?ÿ I had t...

3 years ago
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RE: Old school skills

Speaking of Leroy machines.?ÿ I'm left-handed.?ÿ I'm of the opinion that Leroys were made with right-handed people in mind.?ÿ But in my usual Paden-fa...

3 years ago
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RE: Old school skills

Done them all.?ÿ I preferred the stack of highway radius curve templates to the Accu-curve. Those were the days, weren't they? PS - I never knew it...

3 years ago
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RE: It is fascinating how certain things in life change as we age

@mightymoe?ÿ I almost completely destroyed my bedroom the other day putting on a pair of trousers.?ÿ They had a hole worn above the knee.?ÿ As I slip...

3 years ago
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RE: It is fascinating how certain things in life change as we age

?ÿ Yes I've seen lots of changes as the years roll past.?ÿ Even though the world is changing, I feet a lot of those changes are from within me.?ÿ I'm ...

3 years ago
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RE: Rock Chalk Jayhawk!!

Kansas U has a football program??ÿ ?ÿ;)

3 years ago
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RE: Rock Chalk Jayhawk!!

congrats.?ÿ That's a big win. Wished I had gotten a chance to watch the game.?ÿ Instead I watched Baylor mush OU into the dirt.

3 years ago
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RE: How's business?

I'm going to take this opportunity to remind some of you there is a difference between making money and keeping money. Twenty five years or more ago ...

3 years ago
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RE: How's business?

October fees were 22% higher than Oct. 2020 and 25% higher than Oct. 2019. This trend equates evenly with the respective annual fees.?ÿ Since "selling...

3 years ago
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RE: Getting fired by the idiot client

This should prove entertaining.?ÿ Keep us abreast of any developments. It is definitely an acquired talent to read a client's mind.?ÿ For the very re...

3 years ago
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RE: Center of Section

Years ago we were working on a new development area named Sleepy Willow Acres that, at the time, looked markedly like a wheat field,?ÿ The whole secti...

3 years ago
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