Food (or Fish) For Thought

Source unknown. Found in the foreword to Amy Tan's Saving Fish From Drowning.

A pious man explained to his followers: "It is evil to take lives, and noble to save them. Each day I pledge to save a hundred lives. I drop my net into the lake and scoop out a hundred fishes. I place the fishes on the bank, where they flop and twirl. "Don't be scared," I tell those fishes. "I am saving you from drowning." Soon the fishes grow calm and lie still. Yet, I am sad to say, I am always too late. The fishes expire. And because it is evil to waste anything, I take those dead fishes to the market and I sell them for a good price. With the money I receive, I buy more nets so I can save more fishes.

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I have now lost count of my updates. But I've done at least one a day and have had a few days where I made multiple posts. The numbering system was flawed anyways (you know, with all them, numbers...)

I am still camping out at death's door, but he hasn't let me in yet, so that may be a good sign.

Hit the Nyquil a little too hard. Any of you who might know me knows that this could be detrimental to everyone's mental health. I wrote a delightful little snippet about a polar bear though. ^__^

Back to work, as per normal tomorrow, and hopefully I'll find out whether or not my vacation was approved (because it's supposed to start Thursday... I'd really like to find out what's going on there).

I'm triple checking this all and I still feel as if I am missing multiple spelling mistakes.

And I realize not a word of this flows together with any semblance of order. Again, blame the Nyquil.

I thought briefly about numbers and probability today. I don't like thinking about numbers too often, they are dreadfully fluid things. But what I managed to piece together is that one is bad luck. Two is slightly more to be concerned about, but still quite possibly an ironic coincidence. Three times... Well, three times is a sign.

Time will tell on that one.

31 Days 'o' Blog Extra Special Super Features

Today! (In History): 1707, Japan. Last recorded eruption of Mount Fuji

Quote of the Day: "A fabrication is a lie you tell others; a rationalization is a lie you tell yourself." [Source unknown, but damn if it's not one of my favourites.]

Bizarre Fact of the Day: 1/4 of the world's mine-able coal is located in the United States. That's approximately 275 billion tonnes. How bizarre.

( Pretty Picture of the Day )

The Final Word: Everyone is a hero in their own way.

Quick Note

I'm going to lay this all out.

I am full of words. I write. A lot. But I also like to talk to work some of those words out.

I like to communicate, to dialogue, to play questions and answers and to discuss important things (and the completely inconsequential things).

Closely following this basic need is my need to be able to make sense of things in my own jumbled head-organizing system.

I hate vague. I hate ambiguity and secrets and I hate when you're not straight with me. And I hate being tickled, but that has little-to-no bearing on this matter, I just thought I'd put it in the list.

So stop fucking around.

-C.e.