About

Land surveyor, about ten years, small firm doing boundary and topographic work outside Chattanooga, with occasional construction stakeout jobs.

I've been a land surveyor for going on ten years now, mostly boundary and topographic work for a small firm outside Chattanooga, Tennessee, plus the occasional construction stakeout when the schedule needs it. The actual job is reading old plats and deeds against what's really on the ground, symbols and abbreviations that don't always agree with each other, and figuring out where a line everyone's arguing about actually sits. That habit follows me home. I notice when a rulebook makes me translate a wall of icons before I can play a single turn, and I notice when a book or a game trusts me to sit with something dense instead of explaining it twice. I got into board games through a coworker who kept a folding table in the back office and roped people in during slow weeks between surveys, and it stuck. I read mostly hard SF, classic and mid-century speculative fiction, and nonfiction on complexity and cognition, the kind of thing that rewards rereading a paragraph rather than skimming it. I don't review anything I haven't finished, and I don't take review copies. Dates on here are irregular because I write when I've got something worth saying, not on a schedule.

Where I am: Chattanooga, Tennessee

No review copies, no schedule. I write these up when I've got something worth saying about a specific book or game, which is why the dates on here jump around.

What's here

Book reviews, board game reviews, and whatever else I feel like writing about. No schedule, no affiliate links, nothing sponsored. I write about a book or a game when I've actually finished it and have something to say, which is why the dates on here are irregular.