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How am I feeling? In order to help answer that, I did an ECG check. Heart rate was 57 bpm, which the machine flagged as too slow. So I did some stretches and exercise for about a minute, then checked again. Now it's 67 bpm, which the machine says is okay. And the heartbeat is pretty regular, thanks to the Chinese herbal medicine I have been taking for three days now. I saw a new Chinese doc last Thursday. Unfortunately for me, the previous doc, the one with the beautiful eyes, moved back to her hometown in Taizhong. The new doc seems good though. He prescribed a week's worth of herbal powder and wants to see me again next Thursday. I asked him if this arrhythmia was curable or if I needed to be careful from here on out. He didn't give me a clear answer, either "curable" or "be careful". So we know he is a good doctor. I've been seeing dentists a lot lately, at least once a week for the past few months. One dentist is for the implant that I have under
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How I Decided to Retire

How I Decided to Retire I promised you that I would tell you how it was that at the young age of 70 I suddenly decided to retire from my job as tech writer, the work I have been doing since 1991. As everyone knows April 4th this year (2017) was Tomb Sweeping Day—well maybe not everyone knows—but anyway we had a four-day weekend, and since I had no obligations to do any actual tomb sweeping, I stayed home to work on a project. I had decided to motorize a 4-foot camera track that I had made a few years earlier. I had bought a nice little geared DC motor and I had a power supply left over from a dead laptop computer with just the right specs. I had also bought a heavy duty pot to use as a speed control. And 10 feet of black plastic mini chain to use as a drive chain–each link is 3/4" long. So when the 4-day weekend rolled around I was all set. Got up early on day 1 and got to work. There were lots of interesting problems to solve. I needed two chain sprockets and decided to mak
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