Daily Archives: December 8, 2003

Don’t look down…

Right now my left hand and my right hand are at polar disagreement with my brain… I’m working on a new laptop and the keyboard setup is different than what I’m used to. Y’see, early this year I started to notice some twinges in my wrists, a possible precursor to carpal tunnel badness… So I did some poking around into improving laptop ergonomics and switched my machine over to a Dvorak keyboard. I even swapped the key caps around so that I could look down and see what it was that I was writing. It took a bit of getting used to, especially since I was switching back and forth between Dvorak and QWERTY depending on which computer I was at, but so far it seems to have done the trick… My aches and pains have receded.
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Hey buddy! Got a spare carboy?

You know, if there’s somebody going through our trash who doesn’t read this ‘blog, they’re gonna be absolutely baffled by the stuff they find in there this week… In addition to about ten or fifteen pounds of lacerated cranberry, there’s going to be the seeds and rinds from the dozen or so pie pumpkins that we shredded tonight.
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