Re: USB microscopes for very small SMT

In article <qekok45aipp781rls28936t675afbgbbkt@xxxxxxx>, To-Email-
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On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:41:42 -0800, Joerg
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Jim Thompson wrote:
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:45:16 -0800, Joerg
<notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

krw wrote:
In article <mLU2l.7104$pr6.995@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
Phil Hobbs wrote:
Joerg wrote:
[...]

And pretty soon we'll both be "senior gleaners" ;-)

I never liked math, only learned what I really needed. Sometimes that
still haunts me. I had to calculate an elliptic filter with a weird
load on there this morning. Boy, had that math stuff become rusty.
Almost took a pick-axe to get it going again.

Nah, I just turned 49. Besides, I possess the fountain of youth--my
beloved wife is older than I am. ;)

Same here!
...and she gets the AARP junk mail. ;-)

Out here they bombarded with several membership offers and then it
stopped. Is there much of an advantage to become a member? I've heard
from people that they received lots of junk mail afterwards.

I use only the AARP prescription insurance. Seems OK. BUT I'm going
to move all my prescriptions to Sam's Club... $4 for most stuff, even
better prices than Walgreen's on second tier and non-covered. BUT
keep the insurance for any catastrophic event.


So if I understand it correctly AARP would only make sense for folks who
are already on Medicare.

Can you belong to AARP _before_ you're "of age"?

Age 50.

Our Kaiser HSA-type plan has meds included but
I am considering whether to ratchet down to the non-med covered plan.
It's a one-way street, when some ailment kicks in they won't let you
back in. Would shave off $50-$60/month and we never really need
anything. But who knows.

I never had doctor office visits and medication coverage before
retirement... just catastrophic coverage insurance... it paid out a
bundle though when I had a heart attack at age 58. Of course I never
thought something like that would happen to me... so be wary!

I've had full coverage for 35 years and never used it for myself
until I left (three days for A-Fib) and that was under COBRA. My
wife did use the insurance a couple of times, though other than the
three weeks in the hospital with the brat, no hospitalization.


For Medicare supplemental I use Mutual of Omaha (Plan F)... only had
to pay for one lab test (cholesterol test ordered more than once a
year... jerk doctor, now I'm wary) in the nearly 5 years I've had it.


Good for you. But I am often wondering how an elderly person without an
engineer's wits and without family/friend support can possibly find
their way through that maze. There's lots of folks who don't even have a
high school education and even if they do it was half a century ago.

My doctor pretty much jumps to my tune now, has stopped trying to
foist Lipitor on me, particularly since my recent BP was 122/78 ;-)

Isn't Lipitor for cholesterol (rather than BP)? My BP was through
the roof (260/180) when I was admitted with A-Fib a couple of years
ago. I've since been on a beta-blocker and it's been reasonable.
They had me on an ACE inhibitor too, but that was attacking my
joints so I stopped taking it. The beta-blocker seems to be
handling alone it because I've usually been between 110/60 and
130/80. ...unless there is a doctor in the room.

Unfortunately my recent so called prostatitis diagnosis may actually
be that I tore something while tree climbing ;-) CT Scan on Tuesday.

Tree climbing? Aren't you a little...

Sort of funny how everyone castigates American medicine, but today I
walked my doctor's order for a CT scan into the imaging lab, got
scheduled for Tuesday morning. Try that in Brit-land ;-)

I had a CT scan on an hour's notice. The echo cardiogram wasn't
showing what they wanted to see so sent me for the CT scan. No
emergency, just wanted to take a good look at the heart before they
discharged me.

--
Keith
.

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