Uncle Roger's Notebooks of Daily Life

Wednesday, June 08, 2005

As my father often said, I'd lose my own head if it weren't screwed on tight. Dugh offered a general tip for not losing things like keys and wallets and such (one that I think I will implement, by the way). I have a much more specific version.

I keep my wallet and pens in my front right pocket and my keys and money in my front left. On my belt (clockwise from my belt buckle) is a memory card case, a leatherman, my PDA, and my cellphone. All of these are easily lost items. And yet, I've rarely lost any of them.

The trick is that when I take my pants off every night, I leave everything in my pockets and on my belt (and the belt on my pants). That way, in the morning, I know exactly where everything is and I can simply move everything from pocket to pocket. So the tip is to just leave everything in your pants so you can find it again.

Journal Description

My life is, to me, ripe with frequent challenges, occasional successes, spontaneous laughter, adequate tears, and enough *life* to last me a lifetime. To you, however, it surely seems most pedestrian. And therefore, I recycle the name I used previously and call this my Notebooks of Daily Life. Daily, because it's everyday in nature, ordinary. These conglomeration of events that are my life are of interest to me because I live it, perhaps mildly so to those who are touched by it, and could only be of perverse, morbid curiosity to anyone else. Yet, I offer them here nonetheless. Make of them what you will, and perhaps you can learn from my mistakes.

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