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

[Jerry Frost]

The most sucessful technique I've found for finding things is to look for 
something else.

Jer
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce ." <freemab222 at gmail.com>
To: <mspencer at tallships.ca>; "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" 
<theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 12:31 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] R: Pot Way OT by now...


> 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       .~.
>>                                                            /V\
>> mspencer at tallships.ca                                     /( )\
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