I've been ignoring the list because I've been busy with other things, such as surveying land. After sticking traverse nails all over the parcel of land, last week I completed a small traverse with a 78 mm misclosure and figured out that my pole is out of kilter.
I am now in Germany meeting someone I know from the Internet. Several days ago in my neck of the woods in North Carolina, the forecast was 95 mm of rain. I mentioned this to her; she told me about a recent flood in France which was some large number of liters per square meter. She did not know that a liter per square meter is a millimeter. So I explained that you slice a liter (which she had trouble imagining) into 100 slices and spread them over a square meter. Pierre -- The Black Garden on the Mountain is not on the Black Mountain.
