Saturday, January 03, 2004
I am making an official statement in my capacity as a practising physician :
audits are bad for health. They are now the bane of my life. They are irritating beyond measure. I cannot understand how the audit department can consider a foreign body in an eye a "head injury". nor can I understand how paraphymosis warrants a CT head. The more notes I audit the stronger my desire to wander upstairs and impale whoever it is that is responsible for this farce on the tip of my biro.
moving swiftly on,
the ice has returned! our little lake froze overnight again. much to my chagrin, no ducks were trapped in the flash freeze. no matter, I've taken to carrying a disposable camera in my overcoat pocket (yay me!) so I managed to catch it on film at last. unfortunately the seagulls would not deign to stand on the ice today (? too cold perhaps) and I rather suspect that a frozen lake, on camera, looks very much like an unfrozen lake, since the water freezes, well, water-colour. ah well.
there's a turkey-looking thing (a true waterfowl) that follows the geese around forlornly everywhere they go. geese, for the uninitiated, walk in a line. I don't know why that should be so, but they do. This lot waddles in a snow-white line followed by a large, dumpy, black and and red bird, everyone marching in step. It's rather comical to see and I hope to catch it on film during the day. I have a sneaking suspician that if I use the flash at night I may fall victim to a horde of large, angry birds. Unfortunately all they ever do during the day is sit down in the middle of the pedestrian path ogling passing human beings, which doesn't make for much of a photo.
audits are bad for health. They are now the bane of my life. They are irritating beyond measure. I cannot understand how the audit department can consider a foreign body in an eye a "head injury". nor can I understand how paraphymosis warrants a CT head. The more notes I audit the stronger my desire to wander upstairs and impale whoever it is that is responsible for this farce on the tip of my biro.
moving swiftly on,
the ice has returned! our little lake froze overnight again. much to my chagrin, no ducks were trapped in the flash freeze. no matter, I've taken to carrying a disposable camera in my overcoat pocket (yay me!) so I managed to catch it on film at last. unfortunately the seagulls would not deign to stand on the ice today (? too cold perhaps) and I rather suspect that a frozen lake, on camera, looks very much like an unfrozen lake, since the water freezes, well, water-colour. ah well.
there's a turkey-looking thing (a true waterfowl) that follows the geese around forlornly everywhere they go. geese, for the uninitiated, walk in a line. I don't know why that should be so, but they do. This lot waddles in a snow-white line followed by a large, dumpy, black and and red bird, everyone marching in step. It's rather comical to see and I hope to catch it on film during the day. I have a sneaking suspician that if I use the flash at night I may fall victim to a horde of large, angry birds. Unfortunately all they ever do during the day is sit down in the middle of the pedestrian path ogling passing human beings, which doesn't make for much of a photo.
