[sdiy] recommended publications for novice diyer

[Scott Gravenhorst]

"R. D. Davis" <rdd at rddavis.org> wrote:
>Quothe Roy J. Tellason, from writings of Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 05:27:58PM -0400:
>[re: a messy, cluttered, work area]
>> Eh?  Is there any other kind?
>
>Not that I'm aware of; not one that's functional, that is. 
>
>> I've always subscribed to the saying that a clean desk is the sign of a sick 
>> mind.  Or is that a clean desk is the sign of stuffed desk drawers?	:-)
>
>Remember: one can only keep a desk clean until the drawers fill
>up. :-)
>
>My filing system for desk drawers has always been to just keep adding
>papers, etc. to them in no particular order... eventually they become
>full and somewhat useless, since nothing else can be placed in them.
>Never understood how some former co-workers could keep their desk
>drawers neatly organized (gack!) with files, etc.  While they would
>just reach for a file folder when asked for something, I would find
>things by pulling large stacks of papers out of the drawers, plunk
>them onto the desk and root through the papers to find what I was
>looking for... took a little longer to find things at times, if I
>didn't recall how deep they were in a stack, or what drawer they were
>in, but it certainly was much faster and easier to "file" things away
>in that manner. :-)

Oh yeah, it's my system too.  I call it a "chronoligical filing system".  That
which is oldest and/or least used, tends to be near the bottom.  Things used
most often are pulled from their current position and are replaced at the top. 
This filing system is like a cache RAM, things used most often are the fastest
retrieved.

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