I'm cutting bias tape on a card table this morning. I noticed that a card table isn't a comfortable height for using a rotary cutter -- and reflected that that is all to the good.
Sorting vegetables at a counter that was a comfortable height once earned me a six-day course of corticosteroids and four days of using a walker that really, really, wasn't up to the task.
So if I get uncomfortable after a few minutes of cutting and run off to write a Usenet post, that's *good*.
Back when I did a lot of typing, long before my joints got worn, I kept my letterhead and my envelopes in different rooms so that I'd be forced to get up and walk around now and again.
If I had to get crippled up, this is the way to do it: I can walk as far as I please if I sit for a bit after every mile, and time for training is the only limit on the length of a bike ride. (Well that, and the sun setting at five O'clock at this time of year.) All I
*can't* do is stand motionless for a long time.When recovered, I went out and bought a four-wheel walker, and I've become downright evangelical about having one in the house. If I wake up stiff, for example, a brisk trot with the walker loosens me right up -- and it makes it easy to practice not limping.
And my spouse loves it for trucking an instrument that runs off a car battery from computer to computer.
Typed at intervals, and I forget where I was going with this.
Do you have deliberately inefficient habits?
Just counted the strips of tape, and I think I'll have some left over.