        For an entire week, Dale had wandered around his house in a daze.  He had suffered memory lapses every day.  Sometimes, he found the evidence quite by accident—he’d discovered that he had made breakfast and put the Cheerios back in the oven two days later when he’d gone to bake potatoes.  Fortunately, the fire had burned itself out in the oven.  More often, it was episodes like this, where he would find himself somewhere in the house with no idea why he’d gone there in the first place.