When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels. ~ Edward Dahlberg

Three Questions, January 23, 2025

You can find the background to The Three Questions in my recent post about it. I’ll be answering the questions each day for the next year and putting this experience into a book. Here we go!

What was the most beautiful thing I encountered today?

Today on my walk I once again went up to the top of campus and looked out at the ocean. It was an incredibly clear day, our measure of super clear days is when you can see the Farallon Islands on the horizon, today was one of those days.

What did I learn today?

I learned a bad thing today, I learned something that I had already suspected, but today I learned that my bosses truly don’t have my back.

What made me happy today?

Today is the real test for this exercise. It’s been an awful fucking day. Started bad, went bad, got worse, ended absolutely horribly. Only to get home, have my parking space occupied by someone else, right now I have no idea if my car will be towed in the morning due to where I had to park. Got home, ate, sat down to write this blog and my old trustee laptop made a crazy noise when I opened it and the spine cracked, laptop totally fucked. So what made me happy today, honestly, I was really close to saying absolutely nothing. However, I posted a really frustrating post on Facebook and I got a really nice posting from an old colleague, a wonderful compliment and honestly it did make me happy.