The first Thursday Three of 2006!

NOTE: If the formatting is all trashed, its because I'm emailing this in instead of posting it through Blogger. I'll fix it later...

Terry just managed to figure out that today was Thursday and that all of us Axis of Weevil members would be back to work and looking for a diversion from the paying tasks at hand. So he scratched together some questions and threw them out there for us to ponder. Here they are:

        1) What is the most important thing you ever forgot to do?
Forgot? Forgot what? Who? Me? Let's see, the most important thing... hey, where's my pants? No wonder it was so cold on my way to work this morning!

Seriously, I used to be lousy about remembering my wedding anniversary, after marrying the BSU for the first time. Since I married her on her birthday the second time around, the date has been much easier to remember. Plus, our marriage certificate hangs in a prominent location in our bedroom.

        2) Do you try to keep yourself organized through a routine so you don't have to rely so much on remembering things, or do you follow a more open approach based on what you want to     get done during the day and try to actually think things through?

I rely heavily on checklists, even if most of them are mental checklists only. I prefer routine and checklists for my early mornings before leaving the house. I don't leave the house until I have had some breakfast and one cup of coffee. I mentally check off all the items that go into my pockets and the school books and materials I will need for class. Failing to run the checklist often means that my pocket knife or my badges or my wallet fails to be in its assigned place when I want it. At work, I use FYSNs (Freakin Yellow Sticky Notes) and a small stack of recycled paper under my keyboard as a note taker and project prioritizer. After that, its just a matter of putting out fires when they occur.

        3) What do you have the most trouble remembering--people's names, how to get places, or important dates?
Names. With apologies to those folks I meet for the first time, I'm lousy about remembering names. Locations are different, almost always if I've driven there once, I can drive there again, even if its years since I was there last. Upgrades to roads and traffic flows in these situations really upset my internal GPS!