@mightymoe When I worked in Eugene the surveyor, as part of the subdivision process, was responsible for making a security deposit to the City in an ...

@rj-schneider That and I used ain't in a different thread. ?ÿ

@dougie Dang it Doug, now everybody knows what I do. My desk ain't that neat though.

@holy-cow As long as he's not in Southeast AK, except Haines & Skagway.

My only time in central Missouri was the summer of 1977. Hot, humid and sticky, just like the Mid-Hudson Valley where I grew up. At least it got us ou...

@flga Ditto

Just do this and you'll always spot them easily, at least till the next moulting (sp?). Glad I moved away from the places that have such critters, we...

@midsouth-surveyor Gotta love George, a philosopher for the ages.

@a-harris Like when the Colts play in Baltimore, they're introduced as the "Indianapolis Football Organization".

This may not be much help, but... I recall that when I worked at Hayward & Pakan in Poughkeepsie that the Survey Department had possession of qui...

@paden-cash In the primate pavilion at the Bronx Zoo there was an enclosure with a sign saying the most dangerous animal on earth with bars and behin...

Surprised myself, I was able to read it.

We were given the option. I opted to stay in the office, because I felt I would be too easily distracted at home and not be very productive, particula...

Being a state government entity we have to have at least two persons conducting the interview, preferably three, and must ask each interviewee the sam...

I was on the downside of my 3 yr stint with Uncle Sam in Augsburg, Germany (Home in upstate NY in June that year). A few days later one of our sergean...

@david-livingstone I thought her positioning looked a little odd, just couldn't see why until your comment. I always liked the top of the piece to be...

Probably didn't before because in Mr. Flemings example it's appears to have been in a paragraph that's part of standard language that I generally glos...