As some of you know, I was in the high Sierras last weekend.  Fantastic snow!...if you like that kinda thing. 

My son and his buddies snowboarded for three straight days, early to late.  I, on the other hand, being someone who thinks July is a chilly month, retreated to our cabin, built a fire and looked at the beautiful scenery from inside, warm & dry.

 You might be wondering, “what’s this headline – dose of my own medicine?”  Well, here’s what I mean

 On almost a daily basis I have a discussion with someone regarding the best way to work with a laptop, I mean ergonomically speaking.  I disclose this information without any hesitation or reservations because I know it to be the truth. 

In the haste to get up to Mammoth Mt., I remembered my laptop, but I forgot my keyboard.  Rats!

 There I was, warm & dry, and I thought I wonder if there’s a place I could pickup a cheap keyboard just to get me through.  As I pondered some more, warm & dry, I thought to myself….”OK how much are you going to be on this laptop, anyway?”   You’ve probably guessed it, while viewing through the beautiful panoramic windows out over the frozen tundra I pondered some more and then said to myself….”Not much, probably”    Yea Right.

 Here’s the problem with the laptop.  Either your neck is bent down looking at the screen…or your shoulders and arms are hiked up and tensed all the time.  It’s a “No Win” without other tools like external keyboard and mouse, and sometimes an extra monitor (if you don’t have the keyboard/mouse set up).

 Well, its four days later, my neck still sore and stiff, I decided that session with my massage therapist might help, and it did. 

 Now, retrospecting my lesson learned, “my dose of my own medicine”, if you will, was that if you find yourself on your laptop somewhere without your external keyboard and mouse, by all means…Have them DELIVERED!