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Next up, the Woz will give us advice on dieting.

My current Chase Visa card rewards us back about $25-$30 a month.  Once it reaches over $100 or so, I cash it in and have it deposited into my Chase checking account.  One transaction to record in my check register a few times a year.  I can’t see the appeal of a cash-back system that is constantly trickling in a buck a day on average - it’s really all just small potatoes.

spice-boy said:

Too early to get excited about this. 

Exactly.  We still shop at places that don't read the chip on our current cards, but require you to swipe the magnetic strip which the Apple Card lacks.  Heck, we were at a motel last month and I went to the lobby to buy a pop and the machine required me to swipe the card.  Also, when I do things over the phone, such as reserve a room or a spot for our RV, I often have to give them my card number, expiration date and the 3-digit number from the back of the card.  Again, with an Apple Card, I'd be screwed.

As I sent to Apple already (but haven’t seen reported), I’m currently on chemo for sarcoma cancer that jumped from my large leg tumor (since surgically removed - the entire leg including tumor) into my lungs.  My first exposure to one of the chemo drugs (Gemcitabine) caused a severe body-wide rash.  I remember waking up early in the morning with the feeling that my heart was beating funny, so I strapped on my Series 4 watch and ran the ECG test, and it came back saying that my heart rate was abnormally high.  I ran it again and it told me I was in A-Fib.  We immediately phoned our on-call nurse, and they said to get down to the ER, which we did.  They confirmed that I was in A-Fib with a high (upper-100) resting heart rate, and gave me drugs through my PowerPort (an implant most chemo patients have to get blood and other chemicals in and out without having to get an IV line each time) to get it under control.  Knowing me, had the watch not warned me, I might not have gone to the ER until symptoms had gotten worse, and it’s speculative to know where that might have led.  It’s funny, because the feature we had bought the Series 4 watches for was “fall detection,” as with an amputated leg, I had already fallen twice, the second time being very lucky that my wife was outside where she could hear me slamming my hand against the window as I lay all tangled up on the floor in my walker with my iPhone on my desk just out of reach.  Instead, it was the ECG feature that saved my bacon!

I like abbreviations.  How about "Donald Liar."