Thursday update

Just a quick note to record that the oncologist visit today was very positive indeed.

The MRI came back saying Judy had a beautiful brain.

Judy's liver functions are still in the normal range.

Judy's blood work is also perfectly normal.

Oddly enough we were waiting for our appointment and we heard some Aussie accents. I (naturally it was me) opened my mouth and soon we had a little antipodean corner going in the oncology waiting room. Of the 9 people in the waiting room, 7 were from the really deep south. 2 sets of patients, with partners, were from Australia, as well as the hospital chaplain.

One of the patients used to work for IBM and learned FORTRAN there (a programming language) in the late 1950's. The Chaplains's brother (I think) was one of the 10 people on the team that invented FORTRAN at IBM (in the late 1950s)!

To make the loop complete I had written some really horrible code (in FORTRAN) while working at the Wellington City Council to map the roading system of Wellington, together with all the land use information (Land use is the data used in assessing your city taxes or rates) and the power, gas, and water lines. I have to say that while a lot of my code is horrible, this is the worst I've ever produced. Fortunately it wasn't ever used in city planning!

All quite odd, but nice.