LOL!! Awesome quote!

I DEILD pretty much every night. I know exactly what you mean about loosing LDs early in a dream chain. I've dealt with the loss of recall by doing a few things.

First, I try to decide IN the LD if it is worth remembering in detail. This is because my reasoning capability when I wake up during the night is crap, but is pretty good in the dream itself.

If I decide it is worth remembering in detail I will make some short notes when I wake up from it. Then I just go back to sleep (or try to WILD).

If I decide the dream isn't worthy of interupting my chain I run through it at least three times in my mind when I wake up. Then I DEILD again.

Other than this I haven't come up with a sure-fire way to recall those early DEILD chain dreams. On another LD site someone suggested "anchoring" their LDs. By that they meant that in the dream doing something that you do during your morning routine. Like making coffe, or brushing your teeth. Or just looking at your coffee cup, so that it will help jog your memory when you wake up. I haven't tried this yet, but think it makes perfect sense. Hope this helps!