July 31, 2009
Today I did something so obvious that it has taken me almost two years to do it
About a year and a half ago I got my own office at work. The desk/computer was already in position for the previous person who used the office and I just moved in and added my stuff, never thinking about the set up of the computer monitor and keyboard.
Today though… I suddenly began to think how nice it would be if I could just move the monitor over a bit. You see, the monitor is on the left side of my desk with the keyboard on a slide out thing in the middle. As the desktop computer is underneath the desk around the middle, about where somebodies feet would be if they were sitting directly in front of the monitor. So… for quite some time I have either had my feet well back or have taken off my shoes and sat sort of cross legged on my chair(or just on my left leg since there is room comfortably for my right but not the left) or otherwise done strange contortions because the monitor is on the left and the keyboard is to the right.
Today though I thought, “Why don’t I move the monitor?” The obvious solution to the problem of back aches and legs falling asleep doubtless. However I soon learned why this hadn’t been done before, simply that the monitors power cord couldn’t reach! And I didn’t have an extension cord. But what I did have was another power strip. So by setting the power strip on my desk and running the cord down and plugging one power strip into another I was able to successfully move my monitor over about a foot so that it is now in front of me. And I can stretch my legs out in front of me as I set at my desk. And that is nice:)