Thoughts

Cleaning up my desk, came across a small poster about Delaware Water Gap hiking. We did Mt. Minsi last year, it's on Pennsylvania side. Mt. Tammany, the opposite mount across the Delaware River, is on NJ side and probably twice as hard/long as Minsi, from what I heard.

Every now and then we'll get this card in the mail addressed to "Resident", by Lupus foundation (888-445-8787). They provide free donation pick-up for clothing, shoes and household items at the indicated date on the card. But probably can arrange for any day by calling them. Well, it's free donation pick up, good enough.

For some reason we receive periodic medical journals called "Hackensack Meridian Health" addressed to "Our Friends at..." I guess I'll start reading it to learn something. So in this Winter 2022 edition, I read their innovation article on treating heart disease. Heart disease is caused by clogged arteries with fatty plaque and calcium deposit in the artery wall over time. Two types of conventional treatments are: Angioplasty (using balloon), Atherectomy (scraping the artery wall). The new innovation: Intravascular Lithotripsy (IVL) uses sonic pressure waves to break up the calcium, then using Angioplasty to push away the fatty plague now that there's no calcium blocking it. It's amazing how catheter can be inserted into the heart artery through patient's arm or leg. Finally a stent (metal tubing) is inserted in place of the catheter, to keep the vessel open. I'll keep this magazine as there's more to read in another time. In addition to the HMH journal, I also receive Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital journals, addressed to "Current Resident".

Optimum Online really tries to get our business, now offering 300 Mbps internet for $29.99. 1-866-213-2820, and even offering a $200 visa prepaid card. This is like the 5th time I received such offer already. When they had only 200 Mbps with the same price, I was already considering and tried to bargain for 300 Mbps, because our Verizon is now $39.99 for 300 Mbps since last year (was only 100/100 = 100 Mbps with the same price before that). But at the time Optimum wasn't willing to match Verizon's offer plus they have more negative reviews than Verizon, so I wasn't going to pay attention to it, even when they sent out an old guy salesman to do their bidding at our door last year. However, I'll keep an eye out on this, in case Verizon starts ripping us out. It was a bargaining game between Verizon & Optimum back when we were in Brooklyn and they were really flexible in customizing the pricing with us to compete for our business, but not so much so when we moved to Jersey.

Need to find replacement for slightly broken drawer in the fridge (Model Number: GSH25JSDBSS. Drawer: Fresh Produce Drawer (2nd from bottom in fridge area), manufacture number: WR32X10834. Found it via Partselect.

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