VendorMark said:

One practical note: write down what you did and when, before you need it.

This is where I part company with the consensus forming above. The counter-case has not been addressed. Somebody upthread described the situation that does not fit, and the thread moved on rather than engaging with it, which is the failure mode this board is supposed to avoid.

VendorMark said:

One practical note: write down what you did and when, before you need it.

Agreed, with the usual condition: that holds for the average and this board is a collection of individuals. A population claim and a personal prediction are different things and get quoted interchangeably.

VendorMark said:

One practical note: write down what you did and when, before you need it.

This answered a question I did not know how to ask. I will report back once I have actually tried it.

Clinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person. Both are real; they answer different questions and get quoted as if they were the same one.

Correct me if the detail matters more than I have assumed.

MASHdoc_SA said:

The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person.

Mine went the same way, slower.