August 27, 2007

This is only a follow-up about my rsi problem. It is from armpit to wrist, with electric-feeling numbness in my fingertips, and I've rc'd many good suggestions - thank you all. I try every one, and right now, as I write this, my secret weapon is a low keyboard, and typing with pencil erasers (on the pencils, not the replacement angular varieties, although as long as they were on pencils, they'd work, too). I'd been getting decent at left-handed typing, but I keep hitting the caps lock next to the A, and that was no good.

I have a decent outline for RR40, and will hire friends and maybe others to help me gather it all up. Pencil-typing might be the way, but it's still slow, and the outside help will make the difference. i would like some Reader article suggestions--for the next and future editions. We've had almost no repeats in 39 issues, and I'm thinking it may be fine to reprint or rewrite some early ones. I know they're available on CD, but real paper is still easier and more pleasant. So: New topics, reruns, or some combo; please weigh in on this. Between help from friends and my new, unpatentable-but-n-less-effective-for-it pencil-o-matic typing, we may just see another RR before Halloween.

Grant