14 February 2004. I revised one of my recent Paint Shop experiments today, the first such revision I've done. Kathy Ernst said some very nice things about my pieces--but thought "her dress," as I tentatively call it--I think I may call it "Valentine's Day Mathemaku, 2004"--static. I checked it and found it nigh incredibly static. Or arrested. The way True Love might bright everything in a person's life to a dead halt, I thought! Anyway, I decided at once to try to exploit the stopped quality of the dividend and "ocean" by agitating my quotient and divisor in contrast. The rationale was that their multiplication would counter-intuitively (until reflected upon) yield full stoppage. The ocean.

As I was working on this, I decided my previous remainder would work nicely as my quotient. The first thing I'd done was remove the previous dividend as too static and pretty much non-functional. Later, I wrote in "rock" as my remainder, not very imaginatively feeling it, too, represented something stopped. I didn't like my o. When I painted it out preparatory to putting a new o in, I liked its absence, so left it out.

Again, I don't know how effective my poem is, but I do think this one nearly finished. After looking again at the mathemaku with "just beyond the bridge" in it because it was Kathy's favorite of the pieces I've been making, I decided that one may be nearly finished, too. It just needs a title, in fact. "Valentine's Day Mathemaku, 2004, No. 1?" Which would make the other one "No. 2." I think that would be okay.

Hmmm, I'm not sure I like the background color. . . .