For the "Shit Only I Care About" record, here is another entry in the saga of the Ergonomic but Space-Saving Home Desk Setup.
It started in April of 2018. I had determined the heights of things that put the least stress on my body (among them, having my hands at 25" height). Later that year in September, I
designed around that and ordered IKEA stuff.
(
IKEA fucked up and had to be pestered to get it right.)
By November, I got the right parts and
installed the desk in its first location. By January of 2019, I
put in the upper shelf for standing desk mode. (As at work, I found out I didn't use the standing part very often.)
In April of 2019, I
moved it to the kitchen, both so that it could fold up and so we could have more living room couch space.
Since then, an ergonomic specialist came to work and did evaluations for people. She came to the same conclusion as me about the 25" hand height, but observed that having a mouse on a separate platform from the keyboard was going to cause a lot of awkward reaching and stress. At work, I had the keyboard on my lap, then reached over to the desk to do mouse stuff, and my right wrist indeed was periodically flaring up. I later got a desk at work that went down to 25" so my mouse and keyboard could be next to each other.
At home, I had the keyboard on my lap and my mouse on a side table and noticed that my right wrist flared up when I worked from home.
So, a few days ago, on Dec. 23, 2019, I moved the desk down to a height of 25" so my mouse could be on the same surface as the keyboard.
(Because of my shitty measuring, I had to bore two sets of holes and then spackled the first set. I also sort of had to
implement search for this weblog in order to make this post. Everything is so laborious all the time!)
The End???
