Remembering, helpful hints

Age brings on memory problems. I think back to school how I learned the months of the year and their days with:

Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November;
All the rest have thirty-one
Excepting February alone:
Which has twenty-eight, that's fine,
Till leap year gives it twenty-nine.

The Military was great with pneumonic’s. The last place I worked was NIPSTRAFAC, Naval Intelligence Processing Systems Training Facility. We were called Nips for short.

Naval weather forecast:

Red sky at night, sailor's delight,
Red sky in morning, sailors take warning.

If you are navigating a ship/boat it is good to know:

RRR: Red Right Returning (Keep the red buoys on your right when entering a port.)

Then common sense…Red on the left when leaving port.

I had never heard this one until son-Jack came home from school in GITMO with a home work assignment, and in it was a saying I had not heard:

A pint is a pound the World around. (16 oz)

 What brought this subject up I asked Sherry to put some drops in my eyes.  At that time I remember  a  doctor’s statement: I tell my patients to put the drops toward the outer part of the eye, because: “IF IT IS CLOSE TO THE NOSE, THAT IS WHERE IT GOES!”

I am always looking for an interesting subject for a blog entry, so I asked my wife could she remember any, memory rhymes. She looked at me sweetly and said:

UP YOUR NOSE WITH A RUBBER HOSE!  

(Horshack of  the sweat-hogs)

So we both got our belly laugh for the day!

Mnemonic for remembering the notes in the treble clef (I played the trumpet as a kid):

The lines of the clef:
Every Good Boy Does Fine (E, G, B, D, F)

The spaces of the clef:
FACE (F,A,C,E,)

What year did Alaska and Hawaii become states:

'59 was the date,
When Alaska and Hawaii became new states

And in English, one I remember is:

I before E except after C,
and when sounding like "ay" as in Neighbor or Weigh
(unfortunately there are a bunch of exceptions including 'weird' and names like 'Sheila' and 'Freidman')

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In closing: my Commanding Officer told me as an instructor always use the KISS method:

KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID!

I am sure everyone has heard or used a lot of memory shortcuts or aids. Do you have a favorite?

Nite Shipslog

PS: This one is very good to know,  I used it on one of our hikes recently to ID a Coral from a King:

Red on yellow hurt a fellow, Red on Black is a friend of Jack.

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Above is listed as Simple…….. (but not)

This Model A is simple……

This below is simply stupid or just simply RICH!

A Rolls Royce snow plow…