[TheForge] R: Pot Way OT by now...

[Mike Spencer]

Bruce wrote:

> You last used it in 1973 and can still find it?

Yeah, Bruce.  I walked out to the shop in the middle of composing that
message, went straight to the right bin and got the right little
drawer on the 2nd try.  And I'm 70 years old.  How you like them
banananas? [1]

OTOH, there was an occasion, also in the early 70s, when I stalked all
over the house muttering and grumbling, looking for my favorite pipe,
only to realize, finally, that it was clenched firmly in my teeth.

Win some, lose some.


- Mike

[1] ObSmithing: (if only tangentially related).  The trick in finding
    the odd -- sometimes very odd -- item in the typical blacksmith
    shop of long standing is to look (search? grovel?) *often* for
    stuff of which you *can't* remember the whereabouts. Thus you cast
    your eye over otherwise forgotten tools, weird bolts, inidentified
    machine parts, bits of scrap, blits, gizmos etc. etc. equally
    often. "Need a 3/8" blit?  Wait, I saw that just last week when I
    was looking for broken taxi meter that had a usable brass set
    screw in it.  There's one behind that piece of line shaft in the
    old hibachi grill."

    Unix/Linux users will recognize this as "vgrep with on-board
    memory."   :-)

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