Brains
I have in the past realized that when I'm crazy busy, things start falling out of my brain. Things that I need to remember and act upon, specifically. So I now put absolutely everything in my calendar immediately. Which helps a lot, except when something doesn't go in my calendar (usually an SCA event) or when I don't check my calendar because I'm certain I'm free at x time, only I'm not.
But I'm now having a problem my calendar does not seem able to fix. I cannot hold any details in my brain. Example: I looked up the address I was going to. I repeated it 3x. Then I immediately programmed it into my GPS and put Malden instead of Medford, and didn't realize it until I arrived. Or, yesterday I checked the meat share pickup day. Today I was convinced that it was meat share pickup day, so much that I drove out to Waltham to pick up meat. Only, like the email said, tomorrow is meat share pick up, and it moves to Sat *next* month.
I know that there are other people who have this issue. What the hell do they do to avoid wasting hours every week going to the wrong places, or double booking themselves, or whatever damn fool thing I'll do next? There have got to be some tools or procedures that will help. BTW, I attempted to put the address directly from the email into the GPS because I have fucked it up before, but that operation crashed it, twice, thus creating the chance for my operator error on the town.
But I'm now having a problem my calendar does not seem able to fix. I cannot hold any details in my brain. Example: I looked up the address I was going to. I repeated it 3x. Then I immediately programmed it into my GPS and put Malden instead of Medford, and didn't realize it until I arrived. Or, yesterday I checked the meat share pickup day. Today I was convinced that it was meat share pickup day, so much that I drove out to Waltham to pick up meat. Only, like the email said, tomorrow is meat share pick up, and it moves to Sat *next* month.
I know that there are other people who have this issue. What the hell do they do to avoid wasting hours every week going to the wrong places, or double booking themselves, or whatever damn fool thing I'll do next? There have got to be some tools or procedures that will help. BTW, I attempted to put the address directly from the email into the GPS because I have fucked it up before, but that operation crashed it, twice, thus creating the chance for my operator error on the town.