George Carlin on pro-life
George Carlin died yesterday at 71. I went and did a search for him at YouTube and found the following:
“… [when some of these] other cardinals and bishops have experienced their first pregnancies and their first labor pains and they’ve raised a couple children on minimum wage then I’ll be glad to hear what they have to say about abortion.”
June 18, 2008
Time to revisit the working and walking thing
Over the past year or so my back has been hurting me now and then. It seems to be at least somewhat related to sitting in one place and working on the computer. And - when I was at Disney World last December and spent almost all my waking hours walking and hardly any sitting - my back didn’t hurt once the whole time there!
I had heard it mentioned somewhere about people working and walking on a treadmill at the same time and started thinking about it more after Disney. I thought about having my husband build something, but it seemed like a lot of work. Instead I got a good mat to stand on and put my laptop on a box and tried standing while working. That was ok, for a while.
Then I got a new laptop and a wireless router so I started working on my couch - because I could! And because in the past it seemed like this couch was better on my back. But now even here it sometimes hurts.
Anyway - over at Healthbolt Liz had a great post about this same topic: Is it a Computer? Is it a Treadmill?. But I never did follow up with it. Then - Brandie at The Home Office Organizer posted about Standing Desks: A Smart, Healthy Option. There’s even a social network at Ning called Office Walkers!
So I figure - I need to work on this again - as I’m sitting here typing on my favorite couch and my back is killing me!
Maybe I could spend part of my day sitting, part standing and part walking!
The treadmill desks all seem to be either too expensive, or they won’t work with the treadmill I have. So the route I will have to go - will be a build-your-own, except it won’t be me doing it, I’ll have to see when my husband might have the time. Various different designs can be used. I want one where my computer would be safer, not just on a desk that lays on top of the treadmill railings. I’m thinking the table type would be best, kind of like this one:
Except I wouldn’t want the monitor up that high like that. I’d just want my laptop on a lower shelf, and our treadmill is long enough so it should work ok.
So what do you think? Do you think you would use something like this?
See more about treadmill desks:
How I burn 600 calories a day blogging
April 14, 2008
Blogger Appreciation Day
As I’m getting ready to relaunch my blog in a few days I can’t help but think about all the bloggers that have inspired and encouraged me. Many of them intimidate me at times though too - because I can’t imagine how I could write as well as or as consistently as they do. But I keep trying. Since Darren has declared today to be Blogger Appreciation Day I thought this would be a great chance to link out to all these bloggers and say ‘Thanks!‘:
Darren Rowse of Problogger
Hsien-Hsien Lei of Eye on DNA
Wendy Piersall of eMoms at Home
Liz Strauss of Successful Blog
Ruth of Eating Fabulous
(and some other blogs)
Kendra James of A Hearty Life
Elizabeth of GenBetween
Tara C. Smith of Aetiology
Dr. Val of Dr. Val and The Voice of Reason
Rachel Walden of Women’s Health News
Kristen King of Lively Women
Elisa Camahort of HealthyConcerns and BlogHer
Heather at HealthBee
Liz and Liberty at Healthbolt
Elaine at Genetics and Health
Reason at Fight Aging
http://www.buildingmyempire.com/
and many others who my mind can’t recall at this moment:
Thanks!
April 9, 2008
My relaunch plan
My plan is to relaunch on April 17. Hopefully I will be able to do that. Last week was just a terrible week so I am way behind with the stuff I wanted to get done before then. This is what happened:
- our 4 month old hot water heater went out - various time consuming, useless phone calls were made. washing up in sink, no hair shampooing.
- husband got tooth pulled - roots fused to bone, etc., painful
- discovered cats had tapeworms - just had them 2 months, had to be there when we got them, learned what dried tapeworm segments look like when accumulated on chair in living room
- cat bit husband when trying to get to vet
- plumber shows up to replace part on hot water heater sent to us
- smell gas in the house - call plumber back
- parts don’t fit right, can’t be fixed
- call new plumber to get new brand of hot water heater installed
- get new one in
- same day - find puddle of water in kitchen floor - call plumber again
- take husband to urgent care for cat bite - got antibiotics
- plumber says its the dishwasher causing the water leak
- buy new dishwasher
- get refund for hot water heater (getting the refund for the labor wasn’t easy)
Three days in a row with a plumber at the house! We now have the new dishwasher and it will (hopefully) be installed tomorrow.
Needless to say I didn’t get much done last week. How do you all find time to blog with this kind of stuff going on?
Before I relaunch I need to upgrade my wordpress, get some plugins, get a feedburner feed, get my Thunderbird account working right (any suggestions?), among other things. I swear I’ll do it even if it kills me and I become another statistic!
Oh, and one word of advice - don’t buy a Whirlpool gas hot water heater!
March 14, 2008
getting closer …
I’ve got my new computer - a Thinkpad! I’ve got it mostly set up now, but I still need to get a few more things ready before I can start blogging again.
Meanwhile - if you have some time today - Liz Strauss just informed me that Jason Falls just posted an informative video about SOBCon08:
informative video about SOBCon08
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You can also learn more about SOBCon08 at:
http://sobevent.com
January 21, 2008
Re-launch coming soon!
A while back I took some time off from this blog to decide what direction I wanted to take it in. I’ve just about gotten that sorted out and will re-launch the blog soon. I don’t have an exact date yet, but will post it when I know it.
Meanwhile, I’ve been reading many other blogs and getting more familiar with the blogosphere - other blogs, social media networking and bookmarking sites, etc. to help decide where to go with this.
If you are reading this - thank you for your patience!
October 18, 2007
re-organizing
I’m trying to come up with a different direction for this blog. I haven’t been doing very well with what I’ve been doing.
I’d still like to write about health, but maybe add some more general health topics too. And have some posts about other things too.
Thanks for your patience!
June 14, 2007
When it rains, it pours
Or so they say. I’m not sick anymore but my mom fell and broke her hip recently. So I have been out of town a lot taking care of her.
I hope to be back to regular blogging sometime soon.
But if I get all preachy about bone health - you know why!
April 27, 2007
I’m sick
Sorry I haven’t posted in a while - first there was Easter, then I had a birthday and now I am really sick. Something that’s going around here apparently. I’m way behind with everything right now because of it. I only barely even feel up to writing this today. Hopefully I’ll be feeling better soon.
March 8, 2007
International Women’s Day 2007!
Today is International Women’s Day!
I don’t have time to write anything new this year for International Women’s Day or Women’s History Month - but I do still have my Women’s History Month Information and Activities section available. It includes information about Women’s Rights Pioneers such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott, Margaret Sanger and Betty Friedan including biographies and Learning Activities.
Women have come a long way in most of the world over the past few hundreds years - but we still have a long way to go. To learn more about some of the issues facing women today you may want to visit the following blogs:
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