Ralphie,

I'm afraid I have some bad news for you. You didn't make up the word "obfuscating". You will find it in any decent dictionary.

The oxford concise dictionary (tenth edition), defines obfuscate as follows:

It is a verb, and its meanings are 1, to make unclear or unintelligible, and 2, to bewilder.

To make matters worse, it seems that your usage and spelling were both perfect in every possible way.

Either you are a subconscious academic, or you were born with an intuitive vocabulary, but I'm afraid you didn't invent that word. (unless you are very very old ....... how old are you?)

lox (nyuk nyuk)