Office Space

I have been making progress in my effort to reduce, or at least organize, the clutter in my office. Slow and limited progress, I should admit.

Yes, there are two printers, one inkjet and one laser, with the Canon MP-600 being used only as a scanner. It’s eighteen years old, and Canon cartridges are both hard to find and very expensive. Maybe I’ll give some knock-offs a try.

Hmm… that Beatles poster looks familiar.

Speaking of inkjet and laser printers, I’d like to take credit for their introduction at American hospitals. I’ll explain in an upcoming post.

Trying to Beat a Bad Backbeat

Friday will be cardiac ablation day for me at Mass General. I’m wondering if I’m a candidate for a new procedure from Boston Scientific, approved by the FDA just last April.

The director of the afib program at Harvard Medical School conducted clinical trials. He will be leading the team performing my procedure.

https://advances.massgeneral.org/cardiovascular/journal.aspx?id=2611

Valve Jobs

Two household water emergencies in the same week. A new record!

On Sunday it was the shower shutoff valve. Now it’s the pressure release valve on the furnace, doing what it’s supposed to do.

That plastic pan had just started to overflow when I caught it. A technician from the oil company should be here sometime this evening. The pan dates back to when I did my own oil and filter changes, starting with my first car, a 1965 Chevelle.