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

[Bruce .]

What!?  You don't believe I keep promising to clean it up tomorrow?  I
swear I do!

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Andrew Vida <osan at netlabs.net> wrote:
> 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       .~.
>>>                                                             /V\
>>> mspencer at tallships.ca                                     /( )\
>>> http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/                        ^^-^^
>>>
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-- 
Bruce
NJ