>but I also drink too much alcohol. Man, this is pretty obvious. Short term, drinking too much can cause you to forget a night (blacking out or "browning out"). So what do you think this will do to your memory if you drink "too much" long term? It's like chipping away at your "hard drive space" every time you put a certain amount of booze into your body. There are probably other factors that are contributing, but I'd wager that this is the primary contributing factor to your unusual memory problems. I think I recall you speaking about your drinking problem before. Alcoholism is tied to early dementia. 1+1+2.