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Why a Log Book?

"Astronomy is not just about observing, it's an experience, a life style but more than that it is a collection of priceless memories."

I don't know who said this, but I know i've found it on a number of websites.  This initial statement, is alsmost always followed by:

So how long have you been into astronomy? Take a quiet moment and reflect back over your observing career. Do you remember the excitement of your very first telescope?, the first time you seen the glorious rings of Saturn?, and what about those spectacular aurora displays, meteor showers, fireballs, great comet, or that naked eye sunspot as the Sun set into the murky western sky late at the end of a gorgeous summer evening?. Better yet did you keep a written record of your observations?

I think these two statements really consisely describe the need for a log book.  Not only do we not always exactly remember things that we've done and seen exactly as they occurred, but sometimes we can't even recall those same memories.

Thus is born the need for a log book.