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

[Andrew Vida]

DOn't believe a word of it.  I've cleaned Bruce's house.  Probably was 
the last time it was done, too.

On 8/11/2012 4:31 PM, Bruce . wrote:
> 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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>> mspencer at tallships.ca                                     /( )\
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>>
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