[ale] [OT] this computer is killing me

[Ron Frazier]

PS to my prior message.  To whom it may concern.  A word to the wise.  
Points to ponder.  Etc.

A typical lounge chair, with a poofy pillow on top and a curved (the 
wrong way) back area promotes a posture roughly like the hunchback of 
Notre Dame.  Combine that with a few hours with a laptop on your lap, 
looking down and slightly sideways, and bad things happen.  Don't ask me 
how I know.  My bone doctor (chiropractor) can fix me, but I would 
advise others NOT to follow in my tracks, and, I'll definitely be 
changing my habits.

Ron

On 10/13/2011 9:24 PM, Ron Frazier wrote:
> Yes.  I guess being able to do something is better than being able to do
> nothing.  I think I'm still going to fire the lounge chair for computer
> working purposes.
>
> Ron
>
> On 10/13/2011 3:51 PM, Scott Castaline wrote:
>    
>> On 10/13/2011 02:56 PM, Rich Faulkner wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> We have a saying in our house.  It comes from my wife's days working
>>> at 98-7 The Point in Greensboro and was coined by her old boss
>>> (Program Director).
>>>
>>> "On and gone."
>>>
>>> Do what you need to do and be done with it...
>>>
>>> I got sick of dealing with the stupid stuff doing it the Microsoft way
>>> (all the way from my DOS days!) - thus my reason for ditching that
>>> entirely for Linux.  Linux oath now taken by my family we don't have
>>> the issues we once had.  If it absolutely, positively has to run on
>>> Windows it is offline and/or running as a VM.  Back-ups take care of
>>> the rest and I don't spend my life babysitting machines.
>>>
>>> Keep it simple and sustainable.
>>>
>>> As for the aches and pains...that's ergonomics my friend.  There's
>>> easy fixes for that as well...fixed many times by moving stuff around;
>>> not you moving around your stuff.
>>>
>>>        
>> It's called gittin' old. The warranty expires between 40&   50. Welcome
>> to my world, but keep in mind it's still a helluva lot better than
>> pushing up daisies,,,,;-)
>>
>>      
>>> Cheers!    Rich in Lilburn
>>>
>>> On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 14:38 -0400, Ron Frazier wrote:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> I just decided I need to whine a bit.  Over the last few days, I've
>>>> spent a significant number of hours working on my laptop doing
>>>> configuration, research, and reading and writing emails.  I've spent
>>>> most of the time with the laptop on my lap (imagine that), sitting in a
>>>> lounge chair.  You would think that would be comfy and cool.  Well,
>>>> apparently, it's not.  In retribution for my continual abuse of the
>>>> computer, the computer is killing me slowly.  At this point, my back and
>>>> neck are complaining vigorously.  I think it's time for a break.  I may
>>>> even have to take ANOTHER trip to the chiropractor.  I think I'll have
>>>> to abandon the lounge chair and go back to my desk.  And I still have
>>>> tons of things to do.  AARGH!
>>>>
>>>> Ron
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>          

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