Archive for June, 2008

About 5 years ago I had just arrived at work and I had to enter a PIN into the door lock, the same PIN I had been entering for a couple years.

I couldn’t remember it, I hadn’t just come back from vacation or anything I used it the day before. Someone let me in and later that day I requested my number because I still couldn’t remember it. When the number was given to me, same number I had always used, it didn’t look familiar. It didn’t spark any memories of “Ohh yeah that’s it”, it was completely gone. I even went back and asked “Are you sure you gave me the same number?” They had.

About 3 years ago I was at Sam’s Club and forgot my business card PIN. Exact same scenario, I called my wife who could find it at the time. I had to leave without making a purchase, I got home and found the paper with my PIN on it and it did not look familiar. To this day I’m confused by it. It’s as if the day I looked it up after forgetting it was the very first memory of it.

It happened again today. I was helping my wife with her RapidWeaver project and showed her how to do something. She asked if there was an easier way to do that, I was certain there was so I took the time to figure it out. And figure it out I did. I showed her how it worked and what settings to select which are not the default settings. I decided to update up my own project files with the newly learned knowledge. So I opened my main project file and went to the Page Inspector and the settings was already selected, not on just that page but every page on all my projects.

Had I not gone back to update my pages I might not have noticed that I had at one time already figured out how to do this and would not know that I had even forgotten it.

I think the really important question is “What have I forgotten that I don’t know I forgot?”

P.S. I regularly brag about my memory because it’s way above average, but I think I may have a synapse or two that need replacing.