Brain cancer is...

 

...Eye dropper, brown, honesty, tulip.

Yes, friends, Thursday is speech therapy day.  We're going to give you a memory task.  Listen to these four words.  In ten minutes, we're going to ask you for those four words again:  Eye dropper, brown, honesty, tulip.  [You're going to need to check your own work here.] 

Darrell was given this task by Speech Therapist K in the hospital, so by the time he met Maureen last week, he was really good at it.  We all were. 

The problem is that the tasks get harder.  No four-word memory tasks for Darrell.  Unh uh! Maureen has analyzed Darrell's functioning and has determined that he's working at such a high level that what he needs is deductive logic puzzles.  Turns out we all need deductive logic puzzles.

Here's where your commitment to Team D climbs to another level.  Every day, just for fun, work out a single puzzle.  Good news!  I've found them for you online! 

Logic Puzzles  (or copy paste into your browser:  http://www.logic-puzzles.org/ )

Don't register, just play.  Click the red text:  "Solve a Logic Puzzle."  Start with a 3 X 4 grid, and choose "easy" for the level.  They give you all sorts of support:  Hints, clearing incorrect answers...What's not to love?

What's not to love is that logic puzzles actually cause brain lesions in 68% of the people who play them.  Don't really do it.  We love you enough to tell you to save yourselves.  Darrell would rather have two boost treatments than solve one logic puzzle.

(The image above is today's puzzle.  It's blurred to simulate the actual experience, as we forgot Darrell's reading glasses. This, of course, heightened the fun.)


To ease our brain pain, Darrell chose the CSUF campus for our daily walk.  Here is our walk in a 30-second video:

A 2.0 Walk through CSUF

(Or copy paste into your browser:  https://animoto.com/play/nPbCzY7kYVRq4d5TOmPVLg )

We walked 4 miles of a respected university campus and its buildings.  Guess how many logic puzzles we saw. 

Happy almost-weekend, friends!  We appreciate you and hope you are surrounded by beauty and laughter.