Dec. 20th, 2017

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Originator sends a document
  1. having the same name as the previous version of the document
  2. with page margins of less than 0.5 inches
  3. with a text size of less than 10 points
  4. with tables where some columns are just wide enough to accommodate abbreviations that must be expanded into English to make any sense to the client

Life doesn't get much better than this.

Cheers...
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And found that the Simonides of Ceos who figures in the grand tale describing the "method of loci" mnemonic technique is the same fellow who wrote the words
ὦ ξεῖν', ἀγγέλλειν Λακεδαιμονίοις ὅτι τῇδε
κείμεθα τοῖς κείνων ῥήμασι πειθόμενοι.
My favorite translation of this line is
Go, tell the Spartans, stranger passing by
That here, obedient to their laws, we lie.

That said, I am absolutely wobbly from all the different ways one can combine a relatively small set of words to create almost 9,000 source words of text. The translation is not particularly hard, but the subtle differences in wording have taxed my ability to concentrate.

Cheers...

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