Tom, glad you found your way over here. These guys are a lot of fun an probably the most proliferant posters on the site other than the guys in the AMA political forum.
AJ, thanks buddy. You've made me feel much more adequite with that story....

I'm in the habit of putting my pencil behind my ear. One day I did exactly the same as you but for not as long looking for the pencil I KNEW I'd had only a second before. Finally, in disgust with myself, I sharpened up another, used it and put it up to my ear. A pencil fell and I naturally assumed it was the one I'd just put there. So I picked it up and tried to put it behind my ear only to feel the second one.
Some days it just does not pay to get out of bed....