The survey

Now that I am no longer gainfully employed, I am looking around for easy ways to make a buck, and someplace I saw a medical study looking for subjects, for which I even qualified, so yesterday, I got on the T and rode to a major hospital for a one hour interview which would pay $50.00.

The interview was more or less on health habits with particular emphasis on alcohol, drug use, and that sort of thing. I live such a staid life these days that it was almost shocking to review my sorry past history from high school and college and young adulthood. One example: when I lived in Houston and we were taking anyone to the airport or picking them up, we always mixed up a pitcher of martinis to take along in the car. Times long past, and the crazy thing is that one looks back on such episodes and thinks, "that couldn't have been me. Nope, no way." And yet it was.

Now I am older and wiser and absolutely amazed that I survived my misspent youth. I hope you misspent yours, too. We can compare notes sometime.

Without apologies,

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