The Guardian for this meeting was Riddle Sideways. The comments are by Riddle Sideways who chatted alone.

Riddle Sideways: thank you, Listener Master
Riddle Sideways: Well, Adams IM'd yesterday that could not make it
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Riddle Sideways: meant to send an email regarding the current Audio book being listened to on drive last week
     http://www.audible.com/pd/Self-Devel...id=24881629020
Riddle Sideways: email did not get sent
Riddle Sideways: need to move it up the to-do list order
Riddle Sideways: and a red star
Riddle Sideways: #37 with bullet
Riddle Sideways: that is a very old ref

Riddle Sideways: Having spent last week with father-in-law that has bad short term memory now
Riddle Sideways: but can remember so much long term memories
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Riddle Sideways: sitting around the airBnB breakfast table, he would stare at his little pill box
Riddle Sideways: the kind that have 7 little compartments, one for each day.
Riddle Sideways: the 'W' day was empty
Riddle Sideways: he would look up and ask what day today was.
Riddle Sideways: one or all of us would politely answer Wednesday
Riddle Sideways: one could watch the wheels turn, no need to take today pills.
Riddle Sideways: maybe less then a minute later he would ask what day today is.
Riddle Sideways: 10 minutes later would also ask.

Riddle Sideways: this is the man who loved to tell jokes and stories
Riddle Sideways: and had so many rehearsed for any occasion
Riddle Sideways: he and his twin brother would argue over who originally told the joke to the other
Riddle Sideways: all his life he would forget that he had already told that joke to you
Riddle Sideways: however, it would be the next day instead of 10 minutes like he does now.
Riddle Sideways: That would normally be the end of that story

Riddle Sideways: Now, there is an interesting twist/Revelation
Riddle Sideways: for years those jokes and stories would morph on each telling
               --BELL--
Riddle Sideways: the order of telling, the order of sentences, the people, the time,etc.
Riddle Sideways: would vary or be skipped
Riddle Sideways: having heard almost all of these before, it would have been easy to roll one's eyes and think about the weather
Riddle Sideways: until the end
Riddle Sideways: then laugh, smile and say how good that one was

Riddle Sideways: yet, a good mental practice became to pull each variant telling out of the database storage (where ever that is)
Riddle Sideways: then compare the differences in this telling with what was or wasn't going on during those other tellings
Riddle Sideways: that became very fun
Riddle Sideways: Well ...
Riddle Sideways: Now when he tells the joke
Riddle Sideways: and then retells it and retells it exactly the same wording 3 times
Riddle Sideways: it is easy to write it off as just old long term memory recalling the wording

Riddle Sideways: then really analyzing it comes up with
Riddle Sideways: that it is not the same wording of the first time heard
Riddle Sideways: it is somewhere in the middle
Riddle Sideways: or one of his best versions
Riddle Sideways: ok, not so hard to understand that the best would come forward
               --BELL--
Riddle Sideways: and the brain pathways re-enforced and repeated

Riddle Sideways: then there are the times the story is repeated, but not exactly like the one a couple minutes ago
Riddle Sideways: but, it is exactly the wording of a different version a few years ago
Riddle Sideways: probably, because there is a best fit version for sitting at dinner table and another best for riding in a car.

Riddle Sideways: it is so interesting to watch, think about and contemplate
Riddle Sideways: and a very excellent memory test, puzzle, remembering exercise, lesson, practice

Riddle Sideways: underlines the importance of listening directly to what others say and how/where/when they say it
Riddle Sideways: remembering it
Riddle Sideways: then when it is repeated
Riddle Sideways: what has been changed in the telling

Riddle Sideways: A related exercise is to compare the same story told by different people
Riddle Sideways: all the different tellings of:
Riddle Sideways: "I know you don't follow the News, but you need to know ..." e.g. 'Donald Trump got elected'
               --BELL--
Riddle Sideways: The mind is a wonderful thing
Riddle Sideways: so full of Big Data
Riddle Sideways: many times we try to idle back the CPU to Nothing
Riddle Sideways: to Play as Being no thought
Riddle Sideways: well, sometimes we should run it up to 100% CPU, 100% memory, max DB connectors
Riddle Sideways: Slice and Dice all the reasons
Riddle Sideways: that the chicken crossed the road
Riddle Sideways: :}
Riddle Sideways: :)
Riddle Sideways: Could be wrong, but that's a way of looking at a practice
Riddle Sideways: thank you, Listener