Do you hink of yourself as "NORMALLY happy and healthy"

b1-66er: <scores>

New P.A. for me at The Clinic. 

As always before the appointment, I have to fill out questionnaires.

I've probably done these surveys something like 40×. Here are my responses now...

(aside: the big appointment is with my neuro optho on Wednesday. 

[Most people with MS go blind. No one talks about that.])

Lawrencian: 56 is a good score, no?  

b1: Yes. 

Certainly "good enough."

Their questionnaire is complete bullshit however...

Questions like...

Most days I feel: 

A) Excellent

B) Only okay

C) Like death warned over

D) Stupid and smelly

E) Like crying and curling up in a ball

F) I should take my hunting rifle to Walmart

There is no room for subtlety, nuance nor shades of grey.

L: lol.  I like the questionnaire 

b1: I shouldn't laugh at your comment as I return from the bathroom... but i do.

2 × 1

Special K: This weekend I’m watching Exorcist I and II, and a new documentary about what went wrong with Exorcist II. I watched E II last night and was surprised to see the music was by Morricone.

b1-66er: Yeah. He shows up in weird places. (I believe he did The Thing and Hateful 8 as well, just to name a couple off the top of my head.)

I'm interested to hear what you think of the doc.

K: I’m planning to watch tonight and will let you know.

The movie itself was amazingly bad. Visual style was fine but plot, script, and acting direction were weird and bad. Also Linda Blair was disturbingly hot.

b1: Disturbingly hot is its own form of possession.

Baby I'm a Leo

Special K: ...Speaking of my brother, that’s why I’m in Denver. Transfer the title of his car (which I now own) and tell the nursing home to fucking stop sending me bills because they already drained his every cent.

b1-66er: What kinda car?

K: Recent model Prius.

b1: ¿¡REALLY!? 

That's totally unexpected. I'm retrospect, that vehicle may be his best trait. 

(& I hate having to make him seem better in my mind.)

K: BTW he wanted his epitaph to read “Big fat tires and everything” (a quote from Highway Star by Deep Purple). And he wanted a picture of a 1957 Buick Special Riviera on there too.

b1: (I had to look up

BSR

I don't have that vehicle in my mental garage.)

K: I didn’t know it at all. 

b1: It's a cool car in the 

'57 Chevy 

sense of the word. But it makes me wonder if he was confusing that. 

Which allows me to reset hating on him. 

Which helps realign my stars. 

And that's is a good thing.

Battered Fly

Deadhead: We just got back from Guadalajara and points southern 🇲🇽

b1-66er: Welcome back. 

How were the travels?

(Did you have any border/nationality problems?)

DH: No border issues. Shitty flight home (cramped crowded flight). Guadalajara not particularly great, Ajijic on Lake Chapala was quaint and pretty nice. Had the best churro of my life which was the highlight of the trip 

b1: So well said. 

A truly great churro can make an entire life worthwhile.

Skipping Under the Stratosphere

b1-66er: Batten yer satellites!

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2026/08/24/space-force-honor-guard-showcases-new-ceremonial-uniform-in-dc-grand-prix/

Space Kaptain: Space Force is not a happy place.  But this is: 

(Pic ©2026 Imagine_A_Planet, Unltd

All rights reserved

Used by permission)

Depends on what you mean by, "sink"

b1-66er:

All markets down between 

0.85 & 1.33%

today•

My Intelligent Portfolios are down 0.25%

So... Yay?

b1-67er: I guess. It's like being in the compartment in the Titanic ahead of where the iceberg struck. 

66: I SHOULDN'T LAUGH AT THAT•

In the Pipe!

b1-66er: At the close of trading today, my Schwab accounts are worth $xxxK.

It's the richest I've ever been. (Including having paid $35K for bathroom remodeling.)

It all makes no sense.

Major Math: Our entire financial system doesn't make sense. But you surfing it just right does actually. 

b1: That's so funny. 

I've never thought of myself as the surfboard guy standing on a $ sign in the 

shake glitterball

...but now i do!

MM: Totally