mapping

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Work is being somewhere between highly satisfying and intensely annoying at the moment. Satisfying, in that we're currently getting in a mass of queries and resolving them (and why, may I ask, are we getting so many at this time of year? Could our querents be clearing their desks for Christmas?) but annoying in that we're getting fiddly annoying arguable queries. And there isn't always a convenient way of solving them, either. We have to resort to "other specified" and "not elsewhere classified operation on X", which is annoying in that we want to find codes that describe the diagnoses/operations well.

Elsewhere, must create some sort of very rough commodities/prices/locations spreadsheet for my own use in Puzzle Pirates; it'd be useful. It's just going to be fiddly. Perhaps if I just put the prices in terms of units, tens, hundreds, and thousands, to give myself an idea . . . that should let me spot any really gaping needs for shipping/trade.

Still being fun, though.

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The Hippopotamus

I shoot the Hippopotamus
With bullets made of platinum,
Because if I use leaden ones
His hide is sure to flatten 'em.

-- Hillaire Belloc