Getting old and stupid

[Steve Maskery]

I'm making this ^^&*(*&^ kitchen and getting right (*&^%^&* off about it. There hasn't been much progress this last couple of weeks as life has got in the way, but I distinctly remember, a couple of weeks ago, feeling slightly relieved that I didn't have to cut up any more MFC or MDF for a while. All the panels were cut for the next phase of the installation (two rows of wall cabinets, six cabinets, twelve sides in total).

Yesterday I decided to do a bit more and started to assemble these wall cabinets. I had 12 top panels, 12 bottoms, but only 7 sides. What? Why only 7, It's an odd number in every sense. But I could find only 7. So I assembled the first cabinet, which took longer than it should have done to get square, and the second. Something was wrong, and this morning I discovered what it was. One of the top panels was not square and the cabinet simply wouldn't work. So I knocked it apart, hoping to salvage it. But my joinery, whilst not as accurate as it should be, is very robut, and I simply wrecked the cabinet. Heigh-ho, well I'd got to cut 5 more panels, an extra 2 isn't going to make much difference.

So today I've spent a few hours lugging panels of MFC from one barn to another, cutting 6 panels, plus one from MRMDF (which meant cutting into a new sheet), sizing them, edging them and grooving for a back panel. All done and, I think, this time all square.

By 2.30 I'd had enough and decided to mow the lawn, just for something different to do. So I went to get the mower out and what was staring me in the face? A drying rack with 5 panels on it all edged and primed.

Several hours work and two boards of material wasted.

I go into that barn pretty much every day, and it wasn't in some dark hidden corner, it was just inside the door, I had to move it out of the way to get to the mower. I sometimes do wonder (and I know that Sheila does) if I am beginning to lose mental faculty. Is this what the future has in store?


S

 

[Spectric]

if I am beginning to lose mental faculty. Is this what the future has in store?

No I don't think so, if we are all honest it happens to many of us because we just try and overwork our brains and have so much going on it just causes confusion and is not a medical condition or pre emptive of one.

 

[Lurker]

I think we all do it.
I wanted something last week ( can’t remember now what it was!!!).
Lying in bed that morning I thought I had a clear memory as to were it was.
As soon as I was up and about, I went to seek it out.
No sign!
Rootled about in likely places and couldn’t find it. Went in the house chuntering about my memory but decided it would turn up eventually and had a cup of coffee.
I have an old high gloss kitchen cabinet door in the workshop where I write reminder notes with one of those dry maker pens for white boards so wrote myself a reminder.
Turned around to get on with something else and there was the damn thing I had been looking for.
Then I remembered I had put it there two days before to remind me to do the job that I needed it for.

 

[Lons]

Wot he said but I hate to tell you it will only get worse Steve.

 

[Malc2098]

I can forget what I was going to Google between the lounge and the study.

 

[DaveL]

Malc,
You are not alone

 

[Cabinetman]

I can forget what I was going to Google between the lounge and the study.

There’s a reason for that, I read about it recently, it’s to do with the way our brains get ready for a dangerous situation and those often occur after crossing from one place to another ie through a doorway, the brain clears itself in readiness.
So no you’re not going soft lol.

 

[RogerS]

I think we all do it.
I wanted something last week ( can’t remember now what it was!!!).
Lying in bed that morning I thought I had a clear memory as to were it was.
As soon as I was up and about, I went to seek it out.
No sign!
Rootled about in likely places and couldn’t find it. Went in the house chuntering about my memory but decided it would turn up eventually and had a cup of coffee.
I have an old high gloss kitchen cabinet door in the workshop where I write reminder notes with one of those dry maker pens for white boards so wrote myself a reminder.
Turned around to get on with something else and there was the damn thing I had been looking for.
Then I remembered I had put it there two days before to remind me to do the job that I needed it for.

I recall reading about a tip in circumstances like this and that is to continually say or think the name of the article while you are looking. Further research needed. Now where was I?

 

[RogerS]

That reminds me. I bought a load of tile cement and primer a month ago. I have no idea where I put the primer. Every place is in disarray and both LOML and I spend most of our time moving stuff from A to B in order to find C or D only to then realise a day or so later that we've mislaid A and B and so the cycle continues.

 

[Malc2098]

I think this bit is serious to this conversation, but when I had to learn great bits of law and definitions etc, and the system of car control, what is a hazard, the rules of braking etc., we were always taught to read and repeat it out loud to ourselves, because what one says and what one reads, even if they are the same thing, go into different parts of the brain, and in many cases, not everyone, the read out loud bit stays longer in the memory.

 

[Lurker]

Used to work in the nuclear industry there was a great emphasis on what you say Malc.
I still use some techniques.
If you were to watch me fuel a car, it goes like this.
Put nozzle in the filler
Point to the nozzle grade (eg E10)
Then point to the grade written on the inside of the cover of the filler.
Whilst saying petrol ( very quietly!) as I point.

I’m well past the age where I care what bystanders might think about this.

 

[Malc2098]

Used to work in the nuclear industry there was a great emphasis on what you say Malc.
I still use some techniques.
If you were to watch me fuel a car, it goes like this.
Put nozzle in the filler
Point to the nozzle grade (eg E10)
Then point to the grade written on the inside of the cover of the filler.
Whilst saying petrol ( very quietly!) as I point.

I’m well past the age where I care what bystanders might think about this.

I only put a laugh emoji 'cos I do the same!

 

[Bod1]

Welcome to my world.

Bod1.

 

[fuse]

Im a few months shy of sixty and all this is pretty tame compared with the mental shenanigans my brain gets upto.
The voices just cheer it on....

 

[Windows]

I’m increasingly replacing reliance on short term memory with procedures that can be called up from long term memory. For example, if I make two cups of coffee, can I remember which cup contains caffeine and which is decaff by the time I have to deliver them? Well, most of the time I can, but instead of having to, I always make and deliver the decaff first before even starting on the caffeinated coffee. Can’t go wrong that way.

 

[fuse]

Lost my car keys,late for work,increasing panic.

Just STOP!
Sit down ,cup of tea,think about where I last held them.

Make tea ,open fridge for the milk.
They were at least nicely chilled.
WTF ,as the kids say.

 

[Cabinetman]

Lost my car keys,late for work,increasing panic.

Just STOP!
Sit down ,cup of tea,think about where I last held them.

Make tea ,open fridge for the milk.
They were at least nicely chilled.
WTF ,as the kids say.

I tried putting the car keys in the fridge to remind me to take milk to work, hopeless as the battery must have been a bit low and the remote didn’t work lol.