I just reread your first post and you know what? You will still need that pencil... You will still have to check SOMETHING you make.. UNLESS YOU ARE MAKEING ART, which you would not need to measure in the first place but visiually give it a once over...
I think you will always have a problem, in that respect if it's REALLY as bad as you say... I have the oppisite problem, I will write it down backwords, but retain numbers very well.. I think I bumped my head too... lol
Hey do a search over in the where are you at thread
http://www.cnczone.com/forums/mentors_apprentice_locator/ for somebody near you... I found I had lots of neighbors, new and old to cnc..