I Forgot

When I discovered, at a reasonably early age, that I had a lousy memory, I cleverly decided that engineering was my future - you simply applied engineering rules and equations that any idiot could look up and voila - something was engineered and money was earned.  A good memory?  Not really required.

A direct derivative (get it?) of that was I also became an excellent note-taker.  And I was guided by a simple principle: if I want to remember something, I write it down; everything else is part of a memory crapshoot.  This has become a delightful way to live - I have no fear of forgetting things, and I can claim, under cross-examination - say by my sainted wife, for example - that "it's not on my list."

When you think about it, it's also excellent training for when I get  Alzheimer's.  As Alfred E. Neuman told us - "What, me worry?"