The offending weave
Vipera berus 4-in-1
Categories: Experiences and daily life; Humor and sarcasm
Word count/read time: 424 words; 2 minutes
...is better than an elephant's memory! Einstein knew the uselessness of cluttering his mind with
facts and figures. Nowadays, anything is a quick internet search away. Who needs those
pesky books anyway?
We have graduated from engraving stone tablets and even physically writing
with a pen or pencil as our computers have all but usurped penmanship.
The faster technology changes the less lifespan it has. Stone tablets have lasted
for millennia whereas paper has a few centuries and electronic media a few years.
Planned obsolescence ensures consumerism is unsustainable.
Recorded information has to be both organized and catalogued.
Basically there are three steps: record it, organize/store it, and provide the metadata's
location to yourself, google, and library card catalogue in order to find it
again.
I experiment with many weaves. There are test and prototype chain sections
everywhere. Some may be with the
parent weave, jump rings, scrap pile, or elsewhere. It would be nice to organize it better
but it seems to work. The key part: As long as I know that I have it!
Recently I was making a "new" chain. After
testing numerous ring and wire sizes, I stumbled upon my forgotten previous attempts.
I proved which sizes would and wouldn't work, again. Dumbass!
I didn't remember doing it - must have been a serious case of denial or repression.
There was no record in my notes, either.
Finding the chain section was secondary since it was the information that mattered.
I'll never let happen for this weave again. But there are
many hundreds of weaves.
The optimist says it is better to ignorantly
and blissfully do it again if only to confirm
previous attempts.
Optimism doesn't pay the bills so it's a sardonic consolation at best.
Proper documentation would have gone a long way
had it been readily available. At least I re-recognized
a worthy weave with a fresh, albeit absent-minded, perspective.
Often we find ourselves wondering what notes are important when faced with the unknown.
Facts and figures are the best default. However, any information may prove helpful.
Discarding information is far easier than trying to remember. Write away,
use a smartphone, or take notes on a laptop. Not just for you but so
someone else can follow it.
Sometimes you forget, entirely. It might seem like deja vu would kick in
as you're doing it. Figuring out how to do it again, because it's
been so long and it's a distant memory, doesn't work the same way.
Unless you want to re-re-redo it all over again, that is.
Posted by M: January 25, 2021
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