I might benefit from a "care and feeding of redbirds," as much to keep myself up to date on things as for other people. I should think about the balance between having a record I can update, and "the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind." Even in electronic form when I could easily edit it, there's a tendency to think that what is written doesn't change, unless it's in a few specific contexts, like a weather report, which come with time stamps.
The other thing I'm considering putting together for my own use, courtesy of a thread on Captain Awkward a few weeks back, is a file of my friends' dietary needs and strong preferences. (Needs include allergies or "must have protein in the morning," strong preferences are things like "dislikes whole tomatoes, but tomato sauce is okay.") That would let me track this for more people than I can easily remember, but I'd still have to ask for updates before making plans. Allergies seldom go away—though my digestive system mysteriously decided it didn't like yogurt with live cultures a few years ago, and equally mysteriously decided it does again, a few months ago—but people may start as well as stop eating meat or keeping kosher.
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Date: 2013-06-12 04:12 pm (UTC)The other thing I'm considering putting together for my own use, courtesy of a thread on Captain Awkward a few weeks back, is a file of my friends' dietary needs and strong preferences. (Needs include allergies or "must have protein in the morning," strong preferences are things like "dislikes whole tomatoes, but tomato sauce is okay.") That would let me track this for more people than I can easily remember, but I'd still have to ask for updates before making plans. Allergies seldom go away—though my digestive system mysteriously decided it didn't like yogurt with live cultures a few years ago, and equally mysteriously decided it does again, a few months ago—but people may start as well as stop eating meat or keeping kosher.