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Happy January 11th.  I am very grateful to be a team leader in growing a business with great team players.  I feel the division of our beliefs as Americans (not team players)  on “work ethic”, does not create a roadblock that can’t be overcome, or an end to my passion to grow a business, grow as my creator instucts, and [...]

What an awesome time we had on Thursday.  All of my family showed up at my parents house and my wife and I had arrived the night before to prepare the ritual meal that has been part of my life for almost 60 years. This year it was a little different.  As opposed to “helping” [...]

I am thinking there are many more than me that enjoy being in the field, especially this time of year!  Been really blessed to have work, leadership within our team that allowed me to get in the field and live and work with several of our crews on a project in West Texas.  What a [...]

This is the Friday before Labor Day Weekend.  Made me think about how the work force has changed, at least from my perspective.  Used to be that slackers were the minority and most everyone did their job.  Nowadays, slackers rule… it is almost like the more you can slack and get away with it the [...]

Was planning a GREAT TRIP to San Diego for the ESRI Survey Summit.  Not gonna happen as we are very blessed to have a lot of work came our way. Due to the nature of our economy, I am not going to attend and wish those of you that are going a Great Experience as [...]

Are you finally going to go?   I mean have you thought about going all the way to California and meeting with the folks who are “allegedly” taking over the profession of surveying, those GIS folks?   Even in a down economy I will bet there are 14-15,000 people going to attend. Seriously, there is no better [...]

Many of the surveying practices, skills, and procedures are falling by the wayside as we continue to automate. We thought it would be a good thing to acutally make a video on “how to” set up a tripod for use with a Total Station, Target, GPS/GNSS base, OPUS, conventional traverse, laser scan,  or other land surveying  [...]

A couple of years ago, I was lucky enough to get Darrell and Nedra to let me come to their office in Silsbee and turn on a camera and ask questions.  Here are a couple of videos as we cut the time into short snipets and anyone with a desire to learn or to hear [...]

Mr. Darrell Shine is the main reason I am now a surveyor. I am merely one of hundreds who have been directly positively influenced by this man. DD as many call him, was one of kind, and will live on in our memories as one of the greatest men ever to be a land surveyor [...]