Robert Priest's Blog: Blogging not logging - Posts Tagged "headaches"

I've been trying out a new writing ergonomic. On the speaker that sits atop a stool I have my laptop and I'm taking a cord out of its DVI port and into the HDMI port on my TV which sits atop about a 5 foot high fancy inherited cupboard kind of thing all carved out of wood. And I'm using Dragon speak to have my voice turned into text. I'm dictating while standing in front of the TV which is basically at eye height if I stand back about 4 feet. At this distance I'm able to read without my glasses. I'm doing all this in an attempt to thwart the headaches I've been getting. Since migraine medicine relieves them I figure they must actually be migraines especially since they are brought on so often by a change in pressure but I also think that overuse of certain muscle pathways related to sitting at the computer are key triggers. A lot of that is just about how the head sits atop the neck bones and what muscles get overused. I've brought consciousness to this and done my best just altering my habitual posture while writing but no surprise the act of composition is so all-consuming that there's not enough consciousness left to maintain the posture command. So now I'm right out of the chair standing up and my head simply has to sit differently to see the TV and the text. So far so good.