At 11:03 AM 2/26/2004 -0800, you wrote: >As the years go by you come to the realization that 90% of that info is >never looked at again. Why keep it in the first place? Perhaps because as the years go by, my recall gets so cloudy and unreliable that I need a searchable cheat sheet. A file where I can enter a phone number or address, and figure out who they are and when I worked for them and what I did. THEY remember ME just fine ... embarrassing to have totally forgotten so many of them. Two days ago, on the other hand, a customer was sure I replaced keytops, claned, regulated, and tuned a promising old hulk (Werner) for her. It didn't look like my work, but I've forgotten so many jobs I couldn't be sure. I asked her if she had moved since then. She had not. I had no remembrance of the house at all. For a change, I was right -- she found the invoice from my colleague in the bench. <phew> At some point I'll probably want to pop for a laptop or something smaller to take with me, so I don't have to go home to remember what I should have all along, unaided. After 40 life becomes a maintenance problem ... Susan Kline
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