Day 1240: Things we don’t know

No matter how wise and experienced we are, there are always things we don’t know.

Here are just some of the things I don’t know as I’m writing this on Tuesday, May 24, 2016:

1. What my sister and I are going to talk about on the flight to Minnesota today,
2. How my son’s new one-act play will go  over this coming weekend at his high school,
3. What the doctors at the Mayo Clinic are going to say about my very unusual heart,
4. How the restaurants are in Rochester, Minnesota,
5. What Oscar the cat is going to do during my four-day absence,
6. The words to any of the songs in the musical Hamilton,
7. What was said yesterday at work during some special appreciation events, which included cake,
8. Why anybody would choose or eat a cake that doesn’t include chocolate,
9. What we’re going to do during 25 hours of down time between my last test at the Mayo clinic tomorrow and a late afternoon meeting with a surgeon on Thursday,
10. Why our cat Harley acts scared of me unless he’s situated off the floor,
11. Where we’re going to stay when we return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August,
12. Where my son will be living as a student at University of Edinburgh,
13. What it’s going to be like for me to board a plane in Scotland at the end of August, leaving my only child behind in a different country,
14. What music I’m going to include in this post, if any,
15. How my tryout for “The Voice” in June is going to be different from my first one in February,
16. What you’re really thinking as you’re reading this,
17. The title of my post tomorrow,
18. What I’m going to eat on the plane today,
19. What my sister and I are going to see from the rental car as we drive from Minneapolis to Rochester,
20. The names of all the players on the 2016 Boston Red Sox,
21. What I dreamt about last night,
22. Most of the diagnostic codes people use in American medical institutions,
23. Why the letter “K” is the abbreviation for strike in baseball,
24. The origin of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,  and
25. What pictures I’m going to take in the future.

You don’t know what pictures I took yesterday, but that can be easily remedied, here and now:

What are some things you don’t know, now that you’ve read this blog post?

Here are two songs about how little we know (here and here on YouTube):

How little we know! And yet, I know that blogging daily helps me more than you’ll ever know.

Knowing thanks to all who helped me create this post and to you — of course! — for you-know-what (reading it).