My wife is so uncool!

Actually, both of my wives have been pretty tolerant of my audio illness. My current wife obsesses a bit about money, so my expenditures worry her. We now play a little game where I buy a piece of equipment and install it, then wait to see how long it takes her to spot it (4 weeks on one item). The other ploy I've used is to wait until a special occasion, like Father's Day, and make up a really nice card on my PC which says she is giving me a new piece of gear. Last time, the card says she was giving me a new Sony WEGA flat screen TV. She's really good to me........

I heard a bit on NPR today about the results of a new study of men and women, and the extent to which part or all of the brain is involved in listening. Apparently MRI's showed that only the left half of a man's brain is actively involved when listening, whereas a woman's entire brain is involved. The study was quoted in support of women's contention that men only partially listen. I say there is a second and equally plausible conclusion: that men can do with half a brain what it takes an entire woman's brain to do!!