Sounds like the old Alaska joke: First Mosquito: "Shall we drag them into the woods?" Second Mosquito: "No, if we do, the big ones will get them."
Any day you wake up on the sunny side of the grass is a good day.
"The moving hand writes and having writ moves on. Neither all thy piety nor all thy wit can lure it back to cancel half a line nor all thy tears wash out a word of it." The Rubiyat by Omar Khayyam