Well, its sad to say, but dude must have hit me harder than I thought. It seems I have suffered some permanant brain damage. While out Christmas shopping I was compelled to buy my girlfriend not the X-files box set and various doo dads that I intended, but instead a ring. The ring. Well, not THE RING, as it has neither made her invisible or summoned a legion of Nazgul to take it back to Sauron, though that might be cool, but the OTHER ring. As I had sworn never to get married again I can only assume brain damage. Or alien mind control. Oh well, at least she in now contractually obligated before I get any older, fatter, or balder.