Tomorrow (Halloween) at 9:00 AM I am finally supposed to get my surgery. It had been scheduled for today but they postponed at the last minute. I drove over to Father Duenas to tell Wakana in person so she could express her frustration in person. I think my boss is a little frustrated too. I hope they weren't delayed while they sobered up the operating crew.

I am planning to have a picture taken of me lying on the gurney waiting for the surgery. I will email it to my co-workers and label it as my Halloween costume. I wonder if I can get someone to take a picture of me on the operating table?

I will tell the co-workers it is my costume and that I wanted to wear it to work but that I would have to bring half the hospital with me if I did.

I was driving to work a couple of weeks ago and saw a sunrise that just knocked my socks off. I was ready there and then to buy a large format camera and wait for a repeat.

I never saw the sun. It was a cloudy day. What I saw was the effect of the sun on those clouds. There was a bright spot on the horizon with waves of orange and pick reflected off several layers of cloud. As I drove along the colors spread out from the horizon to the clouds over my head. It was as if there was a fire burning way off below the horizon and the light was slowly illuminating the world.

Last night Wakana came to me to say there was a brown tree snake on the carport. We went out to deal with it. She'd placed a little bucket on it to keep it from escaping. It was about 3 feet long but very skinny with a wide flat head. I used the charcoal tongs to capture it and we tied it into a series of plastic grocery bags. The bag went into the freezer. No muss, no fuss. This afternoon while taking out the trash we added the frozen snake to the mix.

Must be bedtime. Gotta rise up for the cutter early in the morning.