Life Lessons

Life Lesson #2378: If you discover that your dishwasher is broken, unload it and wash the dishes yourself. (I'm trying not to think about the mildew factory I found in there yesterday.)

Life Lesson #2378a: That goes double for wooden spoons. (I threw a couple out. The spots were never going to come off.)

Life Lesson #2379: 10:30 PM is not the time to eat half a bar of really good chocolate if you haven't had caffeine for three weeks and you want to get to sleep before half past midnight.

I've got to stop getting takeout Chinese food for lunch on Tuesdays. They don't empty the trash in here on Tuesday nights so the takeout sits in the trash and smells funny. I complained about this once and got exactly no response.

I still haven't looked up "Prayers of Steel", so today's poem is postponed till tomorrow.

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Today has a poem after all. It's by Izumi Shikibu (974-1034).

Nothing
in the world
is usual today.
This is
the first morning.

I'm going to write that down and put it in my room somewhere I can look at it every morning.