Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it’s your responsibility to love it, or change it. ~ Chuck Palahniuk
Three Questions, April 27, 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 made me happy today?
Getting the tiny patio garden in place and ready for summer as well as ready for the next couple of months where I will have a lot of time to sit around and just enjoy my garden.
What did I learn today?
In France, all supermarkets give leftover food to the needy, seems like a great idea.
What made me happy today?
Tacos, I had some really tasty tacos for lunch and let’s face it, tacos always make you happy.
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. ~ William Shakespeare
Three Questions, April 26, 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, a poem by Shakespeare was the most beautiful thing I encountered.
What did I learn today?
The James Webb Space Telescope may have found biomarkers of life on an exoplanet.
What made me happy today?
I got a new shirt, if you’re going to have to wear button up shirts during recovery, you absolutely should have a psychedelic bigfoot shirt.
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?
Monterey again, my view on the bay at lunch, pretty flowers and cool houses.
What did I learn today?
A Chinese team has created concrete that can store electricity like a battery. Has big implications for home building.
What made me happy today?
A great lunch, a nice walk along the bay, and a deep tissue massage.
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence. – Khalil Gibran
Three Questions, April 24, 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?
The Monterey Bay Aquarium, all of it. I love this place but my happyplace is absolutely the jellies’ room.
What did I learn today?
I learned that the canneries on cannery row were almost completely staffed by women, sometimes working 14 hour shifts.
What made me happy today?
A Monterey day, the aquarium, a great breakfast, pretty flowers, and long walks on the coast.
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?
Lovely flowers on the waterfront in Monterey.
What did I learn today?
That the alter stone at Stonehenge, that they thought came from Wales, actually originated from Scotland, 466 miles away.
What made me happy today?
Some lovely cod bites and a Guinness on Monterey Bay.
Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why. ~ Hunter S Thompson
Rev Kane’s Wild Ride: Surgery Dreams
Surgery day is coming up quickly and preparing for surgery is of course taking over my life in every way possible. It eats up my work days, my email, my schedule but most of all it eats up my mental energy. Everything I do, every decision, every thought somehow ties back to my surgery, the fear, the recovery, etc…
So it came as no surprise last night when my upcoming surgery finally invaded my dreams and man they were some surreal damn whoppers. The first dream I just walked into the hospital and strolled into the operating room and there was my surgeon, restocking flyers on a shelf. He was surprised to see me and quickly moved to cover up the chunks of wood on the counter. So I asked him is that the wood they’ll be using in my legs? Because for some reason, apparently in my dream in addition to heart surgery they were going to cut my leg bones and put wooden spacers in my legs to make me taller. I immediately realized I hadn’t considered the pain I’d have walking and how it was going to fuck up all of my preparations and I happily woke up, rolled over and ended that one.
The next dream, I walked into the hospital and back into the operating room again and my doctor and I were chatting and I remembered that I had to actually check-in through admitting. So I left the operating room and went up to admitting. It was a total cluster, going to multiple people each who sent me to another person and another. I finally get to someone and they tell me they have to go to lunch. Finally someone takes me to an office to check me into the hospital, they give me a band on my arm and send me to my room. So I go up to my room and I see it’s a share room and eventually I decide to leave my stuff and then someone starts hammering on the door. I let him in, he’s looking for someone so I decide to leave. But then I decide to go back to my room, but the elevators won’t go to the right floor. Suddenly there are massive numbers of suites and I can’t find my room.
The next dream I’m in the operating room on the table and I have my sneakers on, and this pisses off the anesthesiologist and he rips them off my feet in disgust. Suddenly, there’s another table right next to mine with an enormous middle eastern dude on it. We’re like an inch apart, he’s completely naked and basically a Ken doll. He’s just chatting away to me about random shit and I realize the sheet I’m under has blood all over it, then I woke up.
Three surgery dreams in one night, I woke up in a seriously confused state of mind and was happy to get up and get my day started. But surreal is definitely the term that applied, feel free to go nuts with the psychoanalysis in the comments. ~ Rev Kane
The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you. ~ Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Three Questions, April 22, 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?
A gorgeous white flower, all by itself while on my walk today?
What did I learn today?
They have found the rest of the mass of the universe. For a long time astrophysicists have puzzled over the mass estimates for the universe, they were always 50% too low. Turns out they hadn’t properly accounted for the clouds of hydrogen mist. These things are absolutely massive in size.
What made me happy today?
We interviewed a new teacher today and he did an absolutely amazing job, always makes me happy to find a new teacher with skills and passion.
The ogres and witches and giants of fairytales stand in as metaphors for those obstacles that we all face in our own lives. ~ Kate Forsyth
Three Questions, April 21, 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?
A lovely red flower that I saw and photographed out on my walk.
What did I learn today?
I learned that in folklore traditions a house with a purple door means a witch lives inside.
Someone went under a dock, there they saw a rock, it was a rock, it was a rock lobster ~ The B-52s
Rev Kane’s Wild Ride: Prepping for the small world
So, 17 days to surgery, lot’s of preparations to do. So many little things to get figured out, set up, arranged. Then of course, since they rescheduled my surgery and rescheduled my pre-op appointments, I had to redo my final blood tests again. So this Friday they pulled another 12 tubes of blood out of me to repeat all of the tests they just did two weeks ago. Next Monday I get to do my final appointments and then hopefully I’m a full go for my surgery.
There are two options right now, one is take it easy before the surgery, the other pathway is to do as many things as possible before the surgery. The second path seems a bit pessimistic to me, as if I’d be trying to fit a bunch in because I don’t think there will be, or I won’t be able to after the surgery. I’m taking a more optimistic approach. Not completely doing nothing, but doing a few things I really enjoy prior to my surgery date. So this week I’m taking off down the coast to a couple of my favorite places and doing a whale watch. The first part of the week I have to start prepping my sub for the three month journey on the SS Insanity that I captain, I won’t be upset about not working for three months.
There are so many little details I’m attending to, little things that you would never consider. Like pulling on a shirt won’t be easy, so I needed button up shirts I didn’t have. Bending down and tying your shoes will be difficult the first couple of weeks so I had to buy slip on shoes. I’ve re-arranged my home, moved things I use a lot, like this laptop, to a place that will be easier to get to and use. Setting up a camping chair that I will have to sleep in the first couple of weeks until I can comfortably transition to the couch and finally, hopefully by week four, gloriously back to my very comfortable bed.
Not being able to life any weight I’m getting CD’s out to put on the stereo so I won’t have to lift the albums I keep them in. I’ve set up my wireless buds on the counter near the laptop. Getting my audiobook membership renewed and stacking my queue so that I have books to listen to. Trying to find ways to be able to keep myself amused for the first couple of weeks.
I’ve been rewatching the Handmaid’s Tale in preparation for the new season that just started. There’s a part where a character gets shot and they say, “pain makes your world real small.” I’m prepping for a couple of weeks of a very small and hopefully slowly expanding world. ~ Rev Kane
Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life. ~ Janine Di Giovanni
Three Questions, April 20, 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?
A pretty red flower on my walk today.
What did I learn today?
Reading more and more about holograms that actually are able to be touched, moved and manipulated as if they are actual objects. Closer and closer to the type of things we see in the movie Minority Report.
What made me happy today?
Biting off the head of my white chocolate bunny and enjoying some Easter candy.
The Ministry of Happiness 