{"id":1323,"date":"2012-09-22T12:21:32","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T17:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/?p=1323"},"modified":"2012-09-22T12:21:32","modified_gmt":"2012-09-22T17:21:32","slug":"pondering-the-standing-desk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/?p=1323","title":{"rendered":"Pondering the standing desk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I finally figured out why my back has been hurting when I work at home.\u00a0 My chair is worn out!\u00a0 You\u2019d think I\u2019d notice something like that.\u00a0 Where I normally sit has worn away the padding.\u00a0 I\u2019m not even sure how old the chair is, probably 5 years.\u00a0 It was a cheap one since I didn\u2019t know what I wanted, but I needed one at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So I told Rich and Rick that a new chair could be one of my Christmas presents.\u00a0 Rich came back and asked why I need a chair if I wanted a standing desk.\u00a0 Good question!\u00a0 I did want a standing desk at home just like I use at work.\u00a0 Then I could really use a nice bar stool!<\/p>\n

A couple of years ago, my friend, Kim, gave me a tall chair and suggested that I elevate one table of my desk.\u00a0 She had done this before and loved it.\u00a0 She was parting with the chair since she was moving her desk and opted not to have it elevated.\u00a0 So Phil (Rich\u2019s boss at the time) got a screwdriver from the staging area and came over to help me raise the first table to a height where I could stand and use the keyboard comfortably.\u00a0 I loved it.\u00a0 I could sit, stand, lean, and sit on the other part of the desk.\u00a0 I had a lot of options and my back didn\u2019t hurt so bad.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve talked about raising my desk at home so that I could have the same freedom to move around and have options for sitting or standing.\u00a0 I have a lot of remodeling work to do in that room and thought I\u2019d wait until I tore it apart to repair and paint.\u00a0 Since I need a new chair, it might be a good time to do something about the desk now.\u00a0 A bar stool might be cheaper than a desk chair.\u00a0 I could at least start out with one of the simple stools from around the pool table.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This started the research phase of what is available out there in the way of a standing desk.\u00a0 OMG!\u00a0 You can spend a lot of money on some of these contraptions.\u00a0 I started checking out some blog sites for what other people were doing to solve the standing desk issue.\u00a0 Some of them are a little crazy and some are just more than I want to do. \u00a0I found a nice sturdy frame that I can attach my current tabletop to.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t look like a bad option.\u00a0 I\u2019ll have to make my decision and get something to handle the issue.\u00a0 No more having to always sit when I want to work or browse Web pages from my computer.<\/p>\n

Oh yeah, and supposed you burn more calories standing as you work than sitting.\u00a0 I can see that, but it’s not really my motivation for this desk.\u00a0 Remember, my back hurts when I sit too much.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now for the Sascha news.\u00a0 So Rich and Sascha have been making good use of the Walky Dog attachment for the bike.\u00a0 Rich has taken her out a few times to run.\u00a0 She still afraid of the bike, but the chance to run always conquers her fears.\u00a0 Problem is, though, she still wants to be lead dog and she can\u2019t do that from beside the bike.\u00a0 Sascha also wants to run at her top speed and not the sedate pace that the bike requires.\u00a0 I was hoping she would get used to it, but her instincts won\u2019t let her.<\/p>\n

It was very, very windy the other day.\u00a0 Rich took Sascha out for a run as usual.\u00a0 On the return trip, Rich was pedaling into the wind and feeling a lot of drag.\u00a0 Sascha was trying to pull her weight and Rich\u2019s weight while keeping up the same speed.\u00a0 She was so tired when she got back to the house.\u00a0 I felt so sorry for her.\u00a0 She did enjoy lolling around in the pool to cool down at the end.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We made it through one week without another squirrel incident.\u00a0 It\u2019s not that she isn\u2019t trying.\u00a0 She almost had one on Thursday.\u00a0 Thank goodness he was just a tad faster than she was.\u00a0 I hope they are getter smarter about crossing her area of the yard.\u00a0 However, I still see a lot of flicking tails and hickory nuts being thrown.\u00a0 The squirrel population exists in safe numbers in the neighborhood at the moment.<\/p>\n

On Friday, the tree guy came by to give an estimate on taking out the trees in the way of new garage construction.\u00a0 It looks like 2 of them have to go.\u00a0 The third one might be salvageable since shag-bark hickory trees put down one large root and don\u2019t spread out their roots like oak trees.\u00a0 We might not kill the smaller one by digging out there.<\/p>\n

Then there was the matter of the hickory tree at the back of the lot.\u00a0 All of the leaves have turned brown.\u00a0 We figure that the tree is dying.\u00a0 The tree guy added this one to his estimate.\u00a0 I really hate to take down the tree, but it would dangerous to let it go and fall down onto the road.\u00a0 We could always plant some nice trees in the area back there later on.<\/p>\n

Today, the weather was really cool.\u00a0 It is definitely the first day of Fall around here.\u00a0 Rich decided that it was cool enough to take Sascha out for her first scooter pull of this season.\u00a0 First, Rich needed to grease the wheels on the scooter.\u00a0 Sascha knew he had the scooter and was touching it.\u00a0 She was beside herself outside the garage door.\u00a0 There was whining, crying, and an occasional bark.\u00a0 Now Sascha on barks when she is frustrated.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With maintenance complete, Rich put on his helmet, hooked up one very excited Siberian collie, and headed down the road with the breeze blowing.\u00a0 Sascha had trouble getting started.\u00a0 I think the word Hike was foreign to her.\u00a0 They got started and a squirrel ran across the road.\u00a0 Sascha started after him, but thought better after Rich shouted, \u201cOn by\u201d a couple of times.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They made it back without further incident.\u00a0 Sascha took a dip in the pool and then wanted inside.\u00a0 She stretched out in the living room and proceeded to sleep off the run.\u00a0 Good girl, Sascha.<\/p>\n

\"Wolf<\/a>
It’s not a wolf at the door. Sort of. It’s Sascha waiting to go scootering. She’s just so excited.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"My<\/a>
At work, I have a standing desk. The keyboard and mouse are on an articulating tray so that it moves up and down as I need it. I love my standing desk at work!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I finally figured out why my back has been hurting when I work at home.\u00a0 My chair is worn out!\u00a0 You\u2019d think I\u2019d notice something like that.\u00a0 Where I normally sit has worn away the padding.\u00a0 I\u2019m not even sure how old the chair is, probably 5 years.\u00a0 It was a cheap one since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1323"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1335,"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions\/1335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}