Between wives I dated a Bloomington gal while she was campaigning to be judge on the Democrat ticket. She bragged to me that on a liberal scale of 0-10, she was a 13, which I interrupted as the beginning of the end. The final blow, figuratively speaking, came on New Year’s Eve, 2007. Instead of going out to celebrate the annual changing of the calendar, I insisted we stay home to watch the Insight Bowl, IU vs Oklahoma State. She got pissed off because of this, emphatically stating, “Frankly, I couldn’t care any less about IU football!” I was in a particularly bad mood afterwards, IU having lost 49-33. By sunrise of the New Year, it dawned on me… it being over and it was. I never took her out again.