Tuesday 01/09/2024
First up today was to remember to take my pre-med. Having your teeth cleaned can be the cause of releasing bacteria into your bloodstream. Tooth scrapings getting under your gums or something? Which can possibly lead to bacteria taking up residence on the artificial aortic valve, which would not be good. Anyway because of that I am supposed to take a dose of amoxicillin before a dental procedure, which in the past I have sometimes forgotten to do which is very embarrassing and annoying because either I can cancel the tooth appointment or take the dose there and spend an hour in the waiting room for it to be effective. Well anyway this time I remembered to take my four fat caps of amoxicillin with my other morning pills at 7:00 so I was all set like a good boy for my 8:40 tooth scraping.
Back at CH in plenty of time for the writers meeting. Which we spent part of talking about AI writing assistants. One of us, Peter, had quite an interesting story chat with Bard.
At 12:15 a nice lady from the IBM Insurance came by to do a very superficial wellness check on me. This is an annual part of the package. (It is still TBD whether Sutter Health/PAMF has settled terms with United Health Care. It could be the next time I go to PAMF my insurance will be rejected.)
After lunch I followed up on a tech issue that has been open for two weeks and been worked on by three members of the tech squad. Ann had bought an Epson printer which we couldn’t make print double sided. I had one more go at it, then finally resolved that definitely, this printer does not support auto-two-sided printing–even though its online user manual seems to say it does.
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