This is Laurel...
Mar. 24th, 2010 11:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sailorhathor...coming to you from beautiful downtown DeskintheLivingRoom! Yaaaaaaaay!
My old computer setup wasn't the least bit ergonomic. I had my monitor on the bottom shelf of a tv cart and my mouse and keyboard on the floor, and I'd lie on the floor and work/play, sometimes sitting up indian style and working/playing. It was comfortable for over a year, but recently, not so much. So, after my shoulder felt better, I went back to this setup to see if it really was the problem, and unfortunately, it was. My shoulder started to painfully tense up once more last night. Damn. :( I was hoping I could get rid of my desk and have less furniture whenever I move to my new apartment, but no such luck. I dragged the desk in here last night, and after a bad arrangement that had me peering at the tv around the monitor, finally settled on putting the desk next to the tv. It looks nice. :) Took ages to get the tv moved over a couple feet (until I remembered I have little discs you can slide under the corners of the tv stand that make it easier to push across the floor), but it's done.
Getting older is no fun in this way. You can't lounge around on the floor in weird positions without hurting something. Now my keyboard and mouse are on a sliding shelf at waist level, which doesn't hurt much at all. My index finger is still puffy and a little numb, though, but I've noticed less numbness since last night. Which of course means "yes Laurel, you're exactly right, it was your weirdo computer setup that was causing ALL your pain."
But, now my butt falls asleep if I sit in this chair too long. Note: Put "comfy desk chair" on the list of things I'd like to buy when I have lots of extra cash... *smacks own butt to wake it up*
Aren't you guys glad you know that?! My life is so exciting! I'm sure the neighbors downstairs just looooved me last night, moving furniture at 4AM... I tried to be quiet, I really did, but I butterfingered a couple things, and then all my folders slid off the arm of the couch... ^_^;;
My old computer setup wasn't the least bit ergonomic. I had my monitor on the bottom shelf of a tv cart and my mouse and keyboard on the floor, and I'd lie on the floor and work/play, sometimes sitting up indian style and working/playing. It was comfortable for over a year, but recently, not so much. So, after my shoulder felt better, I went back to this setup to see if it really was the problem, and unfortunately, it was. My shoulder started to painfully tense up once more last night. Damn. :( I was hoping I could get rid of my desk and have less furniture whenever I move to my new apartment, but no such luck. I dragged the desk in here last night, and after a bad arrangement that had me peering at the tv around the monitor, finally settled on putting the desk next to the tv. It looks nice. :) Took ages to get the tv moved over a couple feet (until I remembered I have little discs you can slide under the corners of the tv stand that make it easier to push across the floor), but it's done.
Getting older is no fun in this way. You can't lounge around on the floor in weird positions without hurting something. Now my keyboard and mouse are on a sliding shelf at waist level, which doesn't hurt much at all. My index finger is still puffy and a little numb, though, but I've noticed less numbness since last night. Which of course means "yes Laurel, you're exactly right, it was your weirdo computer setup that was causing ALL your pain."
But, now my butt falls asleep if I sit in this chair too long. Note: Put "comfy desk chair" on the list of things I'd like to buy when I have lots of extra cash... *smacks own butt to wake it up*
Aren't you guys glad you know that?! My life is so exciting! I'm sure the neighbors downstairs just looooved me last night, moving furniture at 4AM... I tried to be quiet, I really did, but I butterfingered a couple things, and then all my folders slid off the arm of the couch... ^_^;;
