[Jeff Higgins]

I think that's pretty common. I can remember the tiniest detail from projects I worked on months or years in the past, but I can't remember what I had for breakfast. I can get my kindergarten class picture out and name all the kids, but can't remember the name of the guy I just met.

I think level of interest, or importance, might have something to do with it. I can read a section in my Porsche shop manual, crawl under the car, and do everything it said without ever looking at it again. I can have a cookbook open in front of me in the kitchen ("helping" my wife cook) and forget how many eggs I need between there and the refrigerator. Weird stuff sticks in the memory and relevant stuff sometimes does not. I think we all experience that.