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

[Bruce .]

Hmm,

Methinks the way to find stuff in the house or shop is to clean it up
occasionally -- which I keep promising myself I'd do -- tomorrow!

The best way is never to move it once you put it somewhere.

On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Mike Spencer <mspencer at tallships.ca> wrote:
>
> 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."   :-)
>
> --
> Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~.
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-- 
Bruce
NJ