incandescens | optimism

Actually researched a couple of quite interesting things at work today; it looks as if a remarkably unobvious common error regarding coding myocardial infarctions may be widespread and require widespread corrections. One of those cases when we get something pointed out to us, and go, "Well, of course... hm... that is... look, just let me get the dictionary and check out the precise definitions of transmural and subendocardial and how they apply here..." Fun, though.

Got home to find that my copy of volume 1 of The Tarot Cafe (Korean manga, French translation) had arrived from amazon.fr -- it's beautiful, absolutely beautiful. Looks as if the second will take longer to reach me (apologetic email from amazon.fr lurks in my inbox) but I can wait.

Winchester is a lovely place to work. I'm right in the middle of town, with food shops within a few minutes walk, and I can hear the Cathedral bells when they ring, and -- okay, it's a little touristy in places, but there is a genuine feeling of age beneath it. (I really should pay a visit to the Cathedral before long -- not that I haven't been there numerous times before, but at some point someone's going to say, "So, you're working in Winchester -- been by the Cathedral yet?" and it'd be convenient to be able to say, "Yes, just dropped in to check it was still there.")

Dark Ages: Britain got an Ennie (2004 GenCon ENWorld RPG Award) nomination, as did Orpheus. As one of the writers on both of those, I'm extremely happy. Even if they don't win . . . oh, hell with it, of course I want them to win. But it's nice to have garnered nominations in any case.

---

certain maxims of archy

[...]

there is always
something to be thankful
for you would not
think that a cockroach
had much ground
for optimism
but as the fishing season
opens up i grow
more and more
cheerful at the thought
that nobody ever got
the notion of using
cockroaches for bait

-- Don Marquis