Camera Girl is a harsh mistress. Like some kind of antebellum field slave I’m in the trenches finishing up my chores. What I have discovered is no matter how many times you buy a tool if you need it you’ll find it has disappeared. This is the second time in a week I’ve needed a 5/8″ socket and it’s been gone. I think I’ll buy two dozen of them and sprinkle them around the house like seeds on a field. Maybe they germinate and a 5/8″ socket tree will grow for me.
I’ll try to get back to work on the site later today but even tomorrow will be effected because of the barbecue. Apologies and hand wringing.
The only way I’ve found to keep anything if for it to have a place and put it back in that place EVERY time. And you do it, not tomorrow or even later today but when work is completed for the day. After a number of years of tension, I seem to even be transitioning my Wife from her considerably more relaxed (and ineffective) theory of tool storage. I probably haven’t convinced her as much as exhausted her from listening to the same lecture repeated ad infinitum. But even she freely admits the advantage of knowing exactly where the flashlights… Read more »
Tom, I had to go through a training on not losing stuff at work. I freely admit it’s advantages. But the lazy gene is a powerful thing.