Apr

Blogging Pains. Part II

I figured something else out last night why thing’s have ground to a blogging halt. It’s my setup. It sucks for lack of better term. It’s awful. Not the fault of anyone or anything, it’s the location of the desk and the chair respectively. I’m crammed up against a wall on my left side so I feel like my left arm is pinned to my side (purely psychological on my part but nonetheless) resulting in my not being able to get far enough over to the left to attack my keyboard properly.

If I place my hands in the proper typing position my left hand is laying in the middle of the QWERTY portion of the keyboard and the fingers of my right hand are hovering somewhere between the "Right Click" menu key and the "Enter" key (thumb and forefinger respectively) to the "\", "Delete" and "Up Arrow" (middle, ring and little finger respectively).

It’s all WRONG!

The power strips, surge protectors, power cords, wires and such are crammed under the desk to the point where I don’t dare to move my feet around much for fear of knocking out CPU right in the middle of my finest piece of writing (good safety margin there since I figure that probably won’t happen in this lifetime–the writing that is). But I’d really hate to bust off any connectors attached to one of the horribly overpriced, common as dirt, computer cables they sell today.

Ya’ wanna buy a 3 ft USB cable? Only $32.95? Onna stick?

I’ve stuffed all the "Save That! It Might Be Needed Later!" type of crap under, inside and outside my highly limited desk space that’s located in my highly limited desk area and since "Later" hasn’t seemed to roll around yet even after 3 years and more, I guess an overhaul of the blogging area is in order.

So that’s the next step in this quest to get things straightened out.

I think I’ll start this now. I just love pulling out wires.