Rant 243 30/8/12 Subject: Getting my days tangled up

Rant number 243

In many ways, I've lost count.

This is to say, I've lost track of the amount of times that I have lost track of the days of the months.

Time after time I've done it now, and not noticed on my rants for bloody days.

Now, I'm not sure if any of you lot have noticed this happening, but it does - and it really annoys me. Especially when I need to go back and fix it.

It's not like keeping track of the date is that bloody hard. I write it 50 or so times a day at work, so really you'd think it would be suitably embroiled with my brain. It bloody well isn't though.

How can I keep getting it wrong, causing myself more aggro in the long run. More importantly also: why don't I just check the calendar on my laptop before I write in the date for each rant.

It's because I'm using a method I suppose - and because I am easily distracted.

Each day, I copy the title of yesterdays rant, then edit the rant number, the date and finally the subject. It sounds simple doesn't it. Some would say 'idiot proof'.
Typically however, I have proved to be 'idiot proof - proof' - a most worrying concept. And I would like to think that by the fact that you are reading this, you do not consider me to be an idiot (although potentially you merely consider me to be an interesting idiot.)

It's surprising really, how much these little concentration based lapses annoy even me. They don't do any harm really. (If however, I should discover that on day 360 odd - I've got the wrong number at some point, I might be a little less sure about that!)
It does show however, that there is something most uncontrollable about our brains. Mine might be a lean mean ranting machine however, it occasionally forgets how old it is, the day of the week, the date and various other trivial but imperative facts.

Crossed fingers I can go another 122 days without screwing it up again. I wholeheartedly doubt it however.

Rant over.