2025 Life Logs, Day 37: Taking a Break
Date: Thursday, February 6, 2025
Weather: Snow, Turning to Icy Rain; Temp 36, Low 33 degrees F
Location: At Home on Lakeview Avenue with My Shadow, Falmouth, MA
I am taking a break from writing about politics tonight. But thankfully, thousands of people across the country are not taking a break. They are pushing back. People are protesting, the Congressional phone system has been jammed by thousands of calls, lawsuits are being filed, judges are stopping some actions, and on and on. I am so grateful for everything people are doing. But all of that cannot help those people in need around the world that have been abandoned by USAID due to Trump’s actions. It is sickening and shameful.
But I had some things that I had to do today, so I put all of this on the back burner and forged by way through the day. I had a PT assessment to investigate the source of stiffness in my neck on the left side. It took 30 minutes to drive to the Spaulding Center for the hour-long assessment, and then another 30 minutes to drive home. The physical therapist asked me question after question and finally decided that the stiffness is caused by the way I sit when working on my computer. She is recommending that I get a wireless keyboard and find a way to sit my laptop at eye level with the keyboard located lower. That way I will not be continually leaning down in order to see the screen. I’ll work on that this weekend because when I got home, I rearranged things hoping to avoid buying the new equipment. But I can already tell that my make-shift move is not going to help. I am going to have to buy the keyboard and laptop stand.
