Update XVI: Sidejackin' it in the Train Room.

[King]

Grade 8 is a headache of high honors. Grade 5 is a high honors that decided to skip the final assignment and doesn't really worry about getting it's Grade 5 certificate because it's confident that it was, in fact, a headache.

[Joe Biden 2020]

The grading scale for headaches is a way for me to gauge and relay the intensity of a headache.  I never drop below a grade 3 headache even on my best day, meaning I always have a slight headache.  That's because my mother has had chronic migraines since 1978, so I have them, too.

My scale is loosely the following:

Grade 3-4 Small Headache
Grade 5-6 Moderate Headache
Grade 7    Severe Headache
Grade 8    Functional Migraine Headache
Grade 9-10  Non-functional migraine headache
Grade 11  Emergency Room Headache

That's as high as it goes.

[King]

So, if small headache is Grade 3, is not having any pain at all still a Grade 1 Headache?

[7,052,770]

Bushie, you really should consider getting on Food Stamps while you're unemployed. You've paid into the system for years, so you should feel no shame or guilt whatsoever about it.

[Joe Biden 2020]

So, if small headache is Grade 3, is not having any pain at all still a Grade 1 Headache?

I never have no pain.  I'm always at least a grade 2, if not 3.

[King]

So, if small headache is Grade 3, is not having any pain at all still a Grade 1 Headache?

I never have no pain.  I'm always at least a grade 2, if not 3.

Christ.

[Eraserhead]

I'd almost certainly off myself if I had a headache every single day. That's not normal. You need help.

[Joe Biden 2020]

I'd almost certainly off myself if I had a headache every single day. That's not normal. You need help.

That's genetics.  My mother is the same way.  That's who I got it from.  It finally took a change in my mother's medicine that got her headaches under control.  It took 36 years to figure that out.  1978-2014.  They are still trying on me.  The best they've been able to come up with on me so far is giving me a migraine pill.

[Lief 🗽]

When did you first start getting headaches?

[Joe Biden 2020]

When did you first start getting headaches?

Around age 10

[Joe Biden 2020]

As I have been mentioning on Facebook, now that it is August 2014 in Oklahoma, I am officially starting my journey back to Kenya.  My goal and desire is to spend Summer 2015 in Kenya, from Memorial Day to the end of July, with my children and a mission team.  I have to raise roughly $5,000 between now and roughly April 1.  I realize the best way to accomplish that is to get a job and work very well on my attendance and raise the funds myself.  I hope to also get grants from other missionary friends as well as my church in Midwest City and my church in Tulsa.  Of course, I cannot count on that until they deliver the money into my trip account.  My ultimate goal and desire is still to eventually move there, but first I want to see if I would survive down there by going for 2 months solid.  I am trusting God to provide the money and provide the means to make the money, both by working and by fundraising.  I am also trusting God to work out any employment logistics, as well.  This gives me about 8 months to raise the money and a little less than 10 months until I leave.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

And then Poochie returned to his home planet, never to be heard from or seen again.

THE
END

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

it is August 2014 in Oklahoma

As opposed to where?

[Mr. Morden]

it is August 2014 in Oklahoma

As opposed to where?

Hawaii.  It's still July 31st there.

[Negusa Nagast 🚀]

Despite no job, massive loans, and your parents paying your bills, you have the audacity to try to swindle simple church folk to bankroll your African delusions?

[Eraserhead]

Kenya and his children randomly come back into the picture! LOL! So good!

[memphis]

Bushie, have you considered a career in fundraising? Places like schools, charities, churches, etc. will pay you good money to convince others to donate. Sounds like you have a talent for this. I also would love to see the look on Mama Bushie's face when he comes around asking for some more Kenya money.

[WalterMitty]

bushie is it possible that your headaches may be psycho-somatic?  (note:  that doesnt mean you are faking or imagining the pain.).

[King]

His diet can't help his headaches either. His body probably ran out of enough B vitamins and magnesium to avoid them by age 10 and of course his family doesn't even want to try and treat the problem with anything but medication.

His constant hunger and pain is probably his body begging him to eat a banana or avocado and instead is getting stuffed with bacon cheeseburgers by the truckload, leaving him completely unsatisfied.

[King]

Bushie, when was the last time you've undergone blood testing?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Sweet that you all assume that this isn't just hypochondria.

[Joe Biden 2020]

BREAKING NEWS (of the good kind):  At long last, I have landed a CAD job!!!!  I put in an application on Craigslist at 13:15 this afternoon and he called me back at 13:35.  We talked for a few minutes and then asked me if I could come in for an interview at 14:30.  So, I shaved real quick, and hopped on the expressway and got to the place in Downtown Tulsa at 14:20.  We talked for a while, he showed me what they did and asked me what I could do.  Well, about 15:00, he asked me if I could report for work Monday at 09:00.  I told him I could.  Then, the owner of the company had me fill out a sheet that paved the way for me to start work Monday, August 4, 2014 at 9:00.  My regular work schedule will be Monday-Friday 8:00-17:00.  The pay is starter pay which will be enough for now, but the big thing is it gives me coveted experience.

[Franzl]

If it's really what you expect it to be, then congratulations.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Relevant: Understanding Chronic Pain's Link to Depression.

[King]

I'll believe it when I see it.