10 March 2004. My piece for today is one that got away from me, by which I mean that I stopped knowing what I was doing with it. Possibly a positive development, who knows. It is still about love at first sight. I hope it's accidentally about more, but can't tell. I know that I enjoyed working on it. I feel like I'm getting more and more sensitive to the most minor of details--this time to what the intrusion of a design element at the borders--in this case, the valentine--can signify. I'm feeling more and more at home with Paint Shop, too.

Possible insight: that it isn't energy that results in work, but work that results in energy. Provided, needless to say, that the work is for something better than survival or money. These highs I've been experiencing of late have come, I think, almost always after I've been puttering around in Paint Shop for five or six minutes.

I have little to say about the mathemaku below except that I once again changed its background color while for the first time completely altering its quotient: same word, but commotionless now. I redid the divisor, trying to make it prettier. New version first, this time; previous version later.

Later note (11 March): while I still think the blue version as visually interesting as the pale yellow, the latter seems to me much more clear verbally, and thus better, for I find the quotient of the blue version too hard to read, and I want it to be readable. I now like this piece second only to the one above it in my gallery (its dividend is "dictionary") of the ten now in the gallery. But my opinion of the pieces is very unstable. Right now, I think I quite like three or four, am neutral about three or four, and dislike at least two.