[Leica] OT: Hand troubles

[Peter Klein]

Richard:  I am in fact mouse-ambidexterous, and switched all the time at 
work. Thanks for the reminder, it does indeed distribute the load.  I 
somehow got out of the habit of switching hands at home once I retired. 
I'm doing it again now.  :-)

I just watched a video of a guy with a really thick southern Appalachian 
accent using Dragon, and it did very well. Dragon is a possibility, but 
I want to fool with Windows' own speech recognition first to see how 
well I get along with the idea of it. Free is good.  :-)

Jayanand, Very interesting--several years back, I had frozen shoulders, 
about a year and a half apart between the left and the right. In fact, 
that's one of the reasons why I started shooting micro-4/3--I couldn't 
carry anything heavier without pain.  My doctor told me that frozen 
shoulders often happen to people in their 50s for no apparent reason, 
men more than women, and if you get one, your are quite likely to have 
the other shoulder freeze up a year or two after the first one.  Anyway, 
I have an ergo chair made for a tall person with a big, er, seat, and a 
table at just the right height. Like many very tall people, I do tend to 
slump

More info in another post. I think I will go Android rather than biting 
Eve's Apple...

--Peter


 > Peter, I taught myself to be a left mouser 20 years ago. It helps to 
spread
 > the load :-) Try it. It took me a couple days to get used to it.
 >
 > Also as others mentioned, check all the other postures and consider try
 > something like Dragon Naturally Speaking. Bleeping thing will never work
 > for me with my accent, but it does work well for people who don't.
 >
 >
 > On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at 
gmail.com>
 > wrote:
 >
 > > Peter,
 > > My guess is that it is probably not the mouse, but an ergonomically 
unsound
 > > posture when using a computer. I got hit by a frozen shoulder a few 
years
 > > ago from using a badly designed chair, which not only took a year 
for me to
 > > return to normalcy, but permanently decimated my golf game as well 
- I was
 > > a single handicapper when it occurred, but am hard pressed to break 
20 over
 > > since!
 > > Cheers
 > > Jayanand
 > >
 > >
 > > On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 5:50 AM, Peter Klein <pklein at threshinc.com>
 > > wrote:
 > >
 > > > LUG:  I'm in need of a little advice.
 > > >
 > > > Since I retired, I've been online quite a bit, and also playing 
bassoon
 > > > more than before. Lately, I'm finding my hands are often tired 
and achy.
 > > > The last time this happened (c. 1990), I stayed in denial too long