I chalk up doing the silly things I've been doing to a combination of a severe lack of sleep due to combo of medical issues (sleep test less then 30% efficiency according to sleep study - my doc said, uh - you werent kidding when you said you dont sleep), then stack any stress of top of that - and duh..... I look for the phone I'm on while talking on it.... looked the other day for an hour for a bracelet I had adsentlymindedly just put on my wrist... silly things like that.... I used to be able to multi-task at work like a machine - but now sleep deperivation, being in pain, etc... all seem to work against the mind! And yes, I'm "middle aged" - hate to admit - but probably attribting to the brain cell fade too! (I stand firm by the belief a month or two in Maui would be a trememdous help)