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A Bear of very little brain
A very odd thing just happened. Mr Bear has just come back from the repository that is our second house next door with a large file containing a novel in progress. It's my work, with my red scribbles on it, and there are at least five chapters. I don't remember any of it. It seems to be jolly good; I wonder if it will be Regency Romance No. 2? How bizzare.
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I've rediscovered some of my old stuff - almost as if it's written by an imposter.
Couldn't understand a word of it.
I think I used to be much cleverer than I am now (I know - not a very high bar.)
I too find stuff I've written and forgotten about. Strangest of all are the middle of the night notes - you know, those strokes of genius that must be written down at 3am. Someone comes along when I've gone back to sleep and turns them into cr*p.
I forget absolutely everything.
I've started to forget birthdays even though I've always been really good at remembering them. I forgot to send my daughter's school report slip back, to pre-pay for an activity before the due date, to book theatre tickets for my daughter's show. I forget to reply to emails, forget what I've been writing. I even forget to write the lists to remind me of what I need to do.
What will I be like in twenty years?
(Sorry)
A couple of times I've looked back at short stories I haven't seen for a long time and can't work out how I even conceived the ideas. Same with my university essays. Like Heather, I sometimes feel like I've lost a few brain cells along the way -- but that's only in the last decade.
So if you can't find something, or throw it away by accident, or change something and want the former version, you can go back to last week in the time machine and your desk as it was a week go is in front of you. Then you can find what was lost and bring it back fro the past into today.
But mac is so reliable and so good at finding things I have never had to use it.
BUT if the computer dies, everything I have ever done is on the Time capsule hard drive which can be downloaded into any other (mac) computer.