Now here's food for thought

Remembrance

To what can our life on earth be likened?

To a flock of geese,

alighting on the snow.

Sometimes leaving a trace of their passage.

Su Shi Poetry

[Su DongPo]

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I Didn't Write This...

...but I wish I did.

Robert Frost (1874–1963). Mountain Interval. 1920.

The Road Not Taken

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Epson Refillable Cartridge Update

I've refilled all of them now. They work great. Very very very few instances of clogged heads that have to be run through the cleaner, in fact, I think only once. The guy I bought them from said leaving the printer on wasn't such a good idea, but in fact I leave it on all the time without any ill effects (I always forget to turn it off). Print quality with these inks is great.

His eBay moniker is ... hmm I'll have to look it up.

Funverse #5

Don't ask what inspired me to write this...

Mmm-Hmm!

Mmm-hmm! just popped the seal atop a jar of peanut butter,
Oh boy, to peel the seal and smell a smell that’s like no other!
A whiff invades my nostrils, sniff it deep, so tantalizin’...
Just think what joy we’d miss if not for Carver’s pulverizin’!

Mmm-hmm! the tummy monster growls at chocolate chips-in-cookie,
It’s not enough to close your eyes and sniff—you have to looky.
And once you look, you’re done for, for a peek is just a tease!
The monster bares its cookie teeth and roars, "I’d like one, PLEASE!"

Mmm-hmm! just mall-walked by the place where cin’mon rolls are made.
They have to know you cannot stay the course with them displayed
In yummy piles of sweet soft dough with icing dripping slow--
My iron will has turned to mush! "I’ll take two, thanks, to go."

Mmm-hmm! just poofed a bag of chips just inches from my smeller--
I can’t describe the thrill it gives—it makes me want to beller!
To tell the truth, I nearly lost the chance to do the honor:
My sister nearly grabbed it first—I put a headlock on ‘er.