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 Posted - January 30 2012 : 8:35:20 PM
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I cleaned up the garage two weeks ago and then straightened up my railroad workbench area. I had these Walmart fishing weights in various sizes I use for inexpensive car weights, as I can hammer them, cut them,etc to fit where needed.
Tonight, as I spent a bit of time on my latest- an AHM GP18 repower and detail job, I saw that I needed to customize the hood weight and started looking for those fishing weights. Well, you can guess that I gave up after a half hour, nowhere to be found!!
Now I know absolutely I am in the middle of middle age- I can't remember where I organized something I just had in front of me two weeks ago!!!!!!
Oh well, back to Walmart!!!!!
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Posted - January 30 2012 : 8:46:51 PM
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Hey...at least you know where the loco is....
...or do you?
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Posted - January 30 2012 : 8:50:37 PM
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I know where the "loco" is, it's the "looney" I am getting worried about, guys!!!!
Ron
( you know looking for this will only end after I get some more weights, use them, and THEN come across the ones I was originally looking for...)
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Posted - January 30 2012 : 8:57:48 PM
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quote:
That's how I find things.
Unspoken expectations are premeditated failures.
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Posted - January 30 2012 : 9:19:45 PM
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Actually the fact you're willing to set foot in Hellmart is in my opinion a greater sign of deterioration of faculties than misplacing things! 
-Gareth
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Posted - January 31 2012 : 02:48:13 AM
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Those weights are LEAD. Be sure to wash your hands after using them.
Lead poisoning is silent and can lead your memory to be... um... mislead.
John
p.s. I'm serious about the lead poisoning.
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Posted - January 31 2012 : 10:18:07 AM
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Dont worry ! At 65 I am a professional at forgetting things. Racking your brain wont work. For me I sit and think about it and then go do other things. Maybe I will be sitting on the throne reading a train book a hour later, and bang the name , word , or location of something pops into my mind. My minds filing system works. it just works whenever it want to. I just hate when it send me to the wrong place. And i wish it could speel better.
Frank
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Edited by - toptrain on January 31 2012 10:19:17 AM
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Posted - January 31 2012 : 2:26:50 PM
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You have to know how to spin it, Ron. You haven't forgotten, you're just "stocking up."
quote:Maybe I will be sitting on the throne reading a train book a hour later...
Originally posted by toptrain - January 31 2012 : 10:18:07 AM
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Frank, remind me never to buy any literature from you. #Flagged #Seinfeld
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Posted - January 31 2012 : 3:58:59 PM
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LOL! I'm 20 and it seems my memory is like the memory of an elephant! I remember some things and forget a lot more!
" Heck with counting 'em rivets, TRAINS ARE FOR FUN! Not called the Mad Scientist for nothing either!"
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Posted - February 01 2012 : 05:24:30 AM
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As a final word on this, seriously, you can organize your workspace to the "Nth" degree, with everything in it's place, but that is a visual goal, more than a practical one. We keep reaching for certain tools or parts and, eventually, things get back to their previous state of semi-chaos, wherein we then find what we are looking for quickly. I just fell victim to my natural preference for tidiness, sort of like those super-organized woodshops I see on TV, where nary a particle of sawdust is created while working away.
And the price to be paid is my recent frustration, as I originally described.
- by the way, still haven't found those weights, so there you go!
Siouxlake/Ron
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