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Cake day: June 30th, 2025

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  • He took lots of cognitive tests, and “aced them all.”

    I’ve NEVER taken a cognitive test. You know why? Because nobody has ever thought I needed one (except my wife, but she doesn’t count). If they are sending him for MULTIPLE cognitive tests, then he’s got a problem, and the people around him are aware of it.

    I remember when my Dad was fading, and we kept taking him for tests, because he kept passing them, and the doctors kept saying he was fine. We were living with him, and knew he wasn’t fine. Not recognizing your own wife of 50+ years is a pretty big indicator that there’s a major problem, but they don’t ask that on tests. They add numbers and ask you to tell time, and my dad had a Mathematics degree, and numbers were never an issue, so they’d pass him. Until one day when he simply didn’t understand their instructions at all. THEN they said he had dementia. No shit, Sherlock.



  • I watch a fair number of cow videos, and the main thing I’ve learned from them is that they are very curious. Do something weird near them, and they’ll all come over to check it out.

    Curiosity is the first step to thinking. Most of them are going to be pretty dumb, but there will always be a few, or at least one, who is going to be smarter than the others. They’re standing around doing nothing all day, is it so surprising that one of them with a few more brain cells finally figured out something?