When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, have you grown old.

Samuel Ullman

What weighs more 18 litres of water or 18 litres of ice. The answer is strange to me.

This morning I realized that I left two bottles of water in the van overnight. They were frozen. They were my only source of water. The pond is frozen. There is no snow.

I would have to bring those up to my room, the warmest in the house to thaw. The answer is ice is lighter than water which makes no sense to me. The water now ice is inside a sealed container.