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[da]

Long day.

But, it was capped by: a pretty decent Quaker committee meeting, a good 20 minutes on the phone with my sweetie, and a walk with the pooch. So it wasn't all bad.

I wish my office/lights/glasses weren't giving me eye-strain. Or, that I knew which of the three is responsible. Maybe I'm just sleep-deprived. I'll work with that; and if you'll excuse me, it's time to go collect valuable data toward refuting that hypothesis.

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[kraig.livejournal.com]

Do you use the fluorescents in your office? I find they always give me headaches, thus the cave that is my own office. (I'll be honest, I plain just like it better that way too.) It was hell when I was sharing my office, my roomies always liked the lights on.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Yes, I have been. The full-spectrums in my old office helped, for whatever reason. But I haven't set up the desk lights. I should do that.

The window (I know, I should stop complaining now, but I won't) tends to make things worse when it's bright out, actually- the room configuration means it's going to be bright near my desk. But the options aren't good for moving my computer desk.

OK, I'm done bellyaching now.

[kraig.livejournal.com]

I was thinking that (about the window, I mean). In some ways, it's nice not having that around. I used to have a huge window in SCH when I worked there, and it was actually kind of nasty, especially since everybody insisted on having the lights on *too*.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Yes, I have been using the overheads. The full-spectrums in my old office helped, for whatever reason. But I haven't set up desk lights. I should do that.

The window (I know, I should stop complaining now, but I won't) tends to make things worse when it's bright out, actually- the room configuration means it's going to be bright near my desk. But the options aren't good for moving my computer desk.

OK, I'm done bellyaching now.

[mynatt.livejournal.com]

sleep depreviation always does it for me. but there are a series of exercises you can do for your eyes, like taking a break while working to focus on something far away and holding your hands over them to rest them (this is apparently better than just shutting them for a while). you might want to google for a better description, or use the cute program workrave, which will prompt you to do those.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Good ideas. I really should do eye-rests and exercises along with my every-30-minutes stretching routine.

I tried a few exercise-prompting programs. For the last few years I've been using a homebrew solution using 'festival', which sometimes feels like I'm stretching to Steven Hawking...