Ergonomics

I just got an ergonomic assessment of my office. It was useful, for helping me track what's causing my shoulder to hurt recently. I knew it was mouse-related, since it hurts precisely when I use the mouse. It turns out I'm holding up my arm too much. Way too much. I should be resting it on the arm-rests. All right then.

I need to investigate:

• a footrest. The assessor said when I'm not using my keyboard or mouse, I might want to be tipping my chair slightly back (something about blood-flow in the back being increased). She recommended putting my feet up. I like putting my feet up.
  
• I still need a windows program that will simply go 'ding' every 20 minutes- to remind me to take a break. Options: many.
  
• a split keyboard without a keypad? She doesn't know of any. I'm going to let this one go, it's only to make my mouse closer at hand and I don't really need it.
  
• I need to ask the kinesiology gym people about two exercises which may be OK for my shoulder, since I've been skipping the arm-lifting exercises at the gym. "prone fly" and "shoulder retraction".
  

20 minutes very well spent.

Manhattan, sunset

Manhattan, sunset II
Originally uploaded by da_.

The tallest building sticking up from the far (East) side of the island is the Trump Tower, partly obscuring the UN tower, which is a block from where we stayed.

Cars

Foo. I feel like a no-good-nik. The across-the-street neighbours (who watched roverthedog while we were in NYC) just asked about temporarily parking a car in our driveway. We just checked it out and I had to tell them no, it's not physically wide enough (leaving aside any of the many other factors).

Right now, their daughter is living with them; she drives 20km every day to work. Her boyfriend is visiting for a month, from Vancouver, and he's got a car too. A. and W. are trying to sell their second car.

He still needs to drive it to work, though, or they'd put it somewhere else.

It seems a bit of a comedy of errors that two eco-friendly(-ish) households can't successfully make this work, but I don't think we could. Another case to illustrate the point that good intentions are no guarantee of something working.

The best I can do is:

Is anyone in the market for a red Honda Acura? 10 years old, good condition? :)