They were doing the best they could, no matter how silly they were about it.

I'm glad that mine recorded anecdotes and quotations I might otherwise have forgotten about; I started the travel journal specifically for that purpose, and it worked. ("It's not only after dinner, it's tomorrow. Since I left my own pencil—and binder, worse—in my room a few minutes ago, I'm writing with Peter's mechanical pencil and listening to Steve and Jason debate whether one of them said 'Louvre' or 'loo,' as in 'I will spend all of my time today in the,' because today it's raining. I personally am going to go to the Louvre.") But then I spent several hours reading similar material from college and fell asleep over it, and I think that messed up my head.