[ale] [OT] this computer is killing me

[Rich Faulkner]

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.

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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