I just spent the past couple of hours working out some quirks in the pattern matching of a Perl script I wrote, for personal use nonetheless. It's bad enough that I spend my days hunched over a keyboard with several O'Reilly Perl books at my side, trying the myriad available solutions for every small yet frustrating problem, but now it has started to take over the rest of my life, like an unstoppable rebel force. Despite this, I have to say that it is quite fun. Perhaps this is proof that I am no longer thinking clearly.