For some time I have known that while doing certain kinds of work I have what I would call “excess attention.”  Unused or possibly unusable passive mentation.  My first responder brain cells are fully engaged, you understand.  It doesn’t matter whether I am writing or editing indexes or, in olden times, typing from hand-written index [...]

Trivia. This is a topic that I have been meaning to write about for months.  Indexers collect trivia by the bushel: the oddments, scraps, crumbs, and often the unintentionally remembered leavings of their daily work.  They are known to inflict it on each other or anyone else who might be listening. Trivia should not be [...]