Calculating handicap is pretty easy to do, even though it’s not easy to exactly interpret:
http://www.ehow.com/how_15107_calculate-golf-handicap.html

I generally don’t keep score, and over the long-haul I figure I’ll continue this way, but in the “short-haul” it would be neat to know my handicap, and from that and some Internet searching to figure out about where I’m at, ability-wise…perhaps knowing my handicap would give me too much interest in my score though…will have to think about this a little.

Been reading Carl Hiaasen’s Downhill Lie — a very fun book, and has some nice insights— was recommended to me, and I recommend it to you.