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well congrats to rune and linna.
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Savor Dam wrote:Indeed. Quality posts too. Even the supposed game posts most often have nuances to provoke thought.

Congratulations...and more, please!
Hah. I don't know how to deal with praise / compliments.
So I'll try this: thanks, SD!

On the plus side... since I put off responding to the compliment...
...it meant that when I came back here, I found lots of other people's congratulationary - ermm, congratulatory - posts.
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So that's good!

So thanks, sorus, Menolly, MsMary, Hurn!, Rune, Av, ali, & sarge.
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Congrats, Linna and Rune!
:bestwishes: for writing even more ;)
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And welcome back, Effy!
So you get a :bestwishes: too - do you think you'll be able to stick around a bit?

May you have many happy postings - may you even attain to the gaining of a sustificate!
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Well, Effaeldm only has 110 posts to go to 3K, so I hope so... :D

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This thread has always confused me a bit. I always assumed that Mile High meant 5,280 posts as in a mile being 5,280 feet.
I have spent the bulk of my adult life working in the Land Surveying business and measuring stuff is a large component of what we do so I'm more aware of what a mile represents than most I suppose.

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I think that way back near the beginning of the thread there was an explanation / justification of the discrepancy.

Mostly I think it was about not pandering to your imperial measure nonsense, but "The Kilometre High Club" didn't have the same ring to it. ;)

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I'm sure I celebrated when I reached 1609 posts :biggrin:

aTOMiC, I did a Surveying degree - we're currently looking for a surveyor. Wanna come live in Australia and work with me? :D Apparently you'll cease to exist according to Sarge and some others, but apart from that it's awesome!
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StevieG wrote:I'm sure I celebrated when I reached 1609 posts :biggrin:

aTOMiC, I did a Surveying degree - we're currently looking for a surveyor. Wanna come live in Australia and work with me? :D Apparently you'll cease to exist according to Sarge and some others, but apart from that it's awesome!
That sounds freaking awesome, though I'm probably not qualified as I never pursued or applied to become a registered professional. I love Australia (though I've never been of course). In a different reality I would jump at the chance however it seems I'll be working for and ultimately retiring with the great City of Tampa survey department. Besides I don't want to cease to exist. Its sounds...nullifying. :-)
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:) I haven't practised much myself in the traditional survey area - more GIS for me. That's why we need someone with land surveying experience... and CAD, I'd take CAD experience as a lot of our clients want 3D AutoCAD delivery.

Anyway.... derail successful :D
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Nice to see you around StevieG. The Watch is accessible from anywhere, even imaginary places, so I say go for it TOM. ;)

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Oh, 51,000 posts for me. :D

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Congrats, Avatar!
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I'm still working on hittin' the big 3K.
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Congrats Avatar - you continue to break new ground :D
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Thanks guys. C'mon, both of you are so close to 3K...you can score it on the way to the big 1 million. :D

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I used to be the fastest user and had the highest post count on the Watch some time ago. Now I have to hurt myself to look up high enough to see Av's post count. Heck to catch dAN I have to close a 4,000 post gap. :-)

In any case when I reach 18k it will be noteworthy.
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Not long now TOM. :D

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Avatar wrote:Not long now TOM. :D

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THIS is my 18,000th post. 😆
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