Decaying Boredom

Today, I thought I'd start my quest for knowledge. Or at least try and figure out if my gray matter is shrinking. And so begins the tally! Indeed, I did learn something today. Curious? Then let me enlighten you (ah, if only that were true). I discovered that in our town/county/state, there's a poor soul running around to all the utility poles to check them for decay and other problems. He scribbles stuff down on some paper and punches the info into a little handheld device. I can only presume it's a GPS type device integrated with some form of GIS (or data that's derived from GIS) to let him know what pole he's looking at and match up all the poles to the DB. Sounds kinda boring and he sorta agreed but responded: Eh, it's a living. Well, someone's gotta do this important and necessary job. And so my breadth of knowledge grew ever so slightly by striking up a quickie conversation (from across the street in my car no less!) to satisfy my curiosity as to what the hell he was doing. I passed! Woo hoo!