I call it "searching like a computer" - start at the top, examine each item, go on until there are no more items, or stop when you've found the one you want. Sure works for me!

>In our house this is known as "having a boy look" and "having a girl look". Sam's most common question to me (and to the kids) when we're looking for something is "did you have a girl look, or only a boy look?"
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>Cheers,
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>Andrew

>>I'm late to this thread but I've lived with my husband long enough to always look in places he has "already checked" when he's looking for some lost item (e.g. keys). Never trust another person's say-so on things like this unless you know them very well.
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>>No wonder the company went downhill.

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>>> This could have easily been located by a logical swapout technique, which I wanted to redo, but the sysadmin claimed he had already done that and persuaded the higher ups that since swapping hadn't found the problem and I was a 'professional' I must use other methods.
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