Souped-Up Office!
ben | 31 December, 2006 14:01So as a bit of a Merry Christmas to myself I've upgraded my office a bit over the past month, party for tax reasons (it's all deductible!) and partly because I get fewer and fewer things for Christmas that I actually find useful...I'm not complaining, but as I change, certain members of my family fail to notice and I fail to communicate to them clearly any particular changes.
For instance - I am a vegetarian (including no sea food), which I've mentioned to the family a few times...and I got a couple of pounds of smoked salmon for my birthday. Also, being 29 and in relatively good shape, I haven't grown much in about 9 or 10 years, yet I for some reason received a bunch of clothes in the size of Large...which I've never worn. All this I find more and more amusing as time goes on and I think it would be a bit boring to get everything I ask for and in my size for Christmas, so I'm thankful that the family gets somewhat forgetful. It's always a surprise. One close family member gets my sister perfume every year for Christmas and every year, on Christmas day when she opens the inevitable perfume, she reminds the person that she wears perfume perhaps twice a year...yet the perfume keeps coming!
Anyway, on to my office upgrades...I purchased a new Hanns-G HW191D Widescreen 19-inch LCD Flat Panel Monitor at the beginning of the month to replace the old big-ass Dell box monitor, which I would plug into my laptop at home that had to be shoved into the corner to fit in the office and I had to twist my body awkwardly to use it. It's quite nice.
I also replaced the corded mouse with a cordless mouse and keyboard by Belkin - not the nicest available but it does the job, though sometimes the keyboard can't quite keep up with my typing and both the keyboard and mouse buttons are somewhat loud.
Finally, and most recently, I purchased one of those kneeling chairs that's good for your back, similar to this one on amazon.com, but less expensive.
I never thought I would ever ever ever get one of these, but I was killing time at an office store with a friend waiting for them to bring a table out from the back and was trying out chairs. I tried this one out and, whamo! I was hooked. I've used it for a few hours on end without any real soreness or stiffness. I actually highly recommend it if you spend a lot of time at your desk.
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