rain throughout the day

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Solving puzzles really does give an endorphin rush.

(Explanation; there's a PuzzlePirates event going on, involving teams solving puzzles, and I'm playing in it, and it is, so far, amusing. The puzzles get harder later in the week. I may not be laughing then.)

(I went and bought my little character an all-grey-and-white outfit to wear. Our team is the Dendarii. Yes, I have my moments of over-enthusiasm.)

Big monthly two-day meeting tomorrow and Wednesday. Wednesday is the clinical coding technical matters meeting, which is where we meet up to thrash out coding issues. This is interesting. Tuesday is more for business and policy and plans and reviews and whatnot. This is, um, less interesting. But we're eating Italian tomorrow evening en masse, so that should be fun. (Must check where Italian restaurant is in Winchester. Would be a bad thing to forget it.)

Will I have the nerve to read my new Vampire: The Requiem book at lunch tomorrow, while surrounded by my colleagues? We shall see.

(Jeanne, I was trying to remember - is your birthday in January or September?)

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Song

A rowan like a lipsticked girl.
Between the by-road and the main road
Alder trees at a wet and dripping distance
Stand off among the rushes.

There are the mud-flowers of dialect
And the immortelles of perfect pitch
And that moment when the bird sings very close
To the music of what happens.

-- Seamus Heaney

Comments

;;Butts in;;;

[kickinpants.livejournal.com]

Her b-day is Jan. 9. :D I always remember it by thinking "It's the same day as Joan Baez's birthday..."

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[flemmings.livejournal.com]

**Her** birthday is February 3, the big tattletale. I always remember it as the day you throw beans at the oni. (Why would anyone remember Joan Baez's birthday, she wonders.)

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Why, thank you both. ;)

(Couldn't remember if Canada wrote dates the UK way or the American way. Right.)

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[flemmings.livejournal.com]

If the year is included I do day-month-year. If no year, I do month-day. Canada has a culture situated somewhere between the American and the British, but the somewhere is always shifting.

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Must be wonderful for confusing clues in crime fiction.

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[petronia.livejournal.com]

I remember it as Joan Baez's birthday. ^^; (Rather, I think it's that any two birthdays falling on the same day makes both easier to remember. And Joan Baez's birthday makes it easier to google at a pinch. XD)

[liralen.livejournal.com]

*falls over giggling at the Dendarii pirates*

I tried Puzzle Pirates for about half an hour, by myself, without coordinating joining a group or anything, and decided it was WAAAAAAAY too addicting for the likes of me. Yo ho ho!!

But cool that you're having such fun with it!!

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It's being a lot of fun at the moment! Now if I (and SJ) can just keep up with the puzzles...