arm comfort

A while back I got a mouse pad with wrist rest to use with my trackball.  Not to use the pad for my wrist, but rather my elbow.  My trackball has its own wrist cushion that while it does a great job with my wrist, makes my elbow contact my desk in such a way that it hurts after a while.  So I stick the mouse pad there and my elbow rests on the wrist rest, thereby not causing pain.

The mouse pad I'd picked up was $5 in the bargain bin at Giant, and I guess there was something actually wrong with it because the wrist rest broke within a month.  Then the cloth started peeling back.  It got to the point where I could lift up the cloth and see the broken wrist rest, where it had basically torn itself.

So a few days ago I went by Staples (the mouse pad was Staples brand) and picked up a new one, as well as a wrist rest for my keyboard.

This new mouse pad has a really good no-slide surface.  It absolutely refuses to move on my desk, whereas I was constantly having to reposition the old one.  The wrist rest is also beefier.  As far as the keyboard wrist rest goes, I have no complaints.  It's nice to not be resting my wrists on the edge of my desk anymore.

I guess this means I have no excuse to not work on and churn out the lulzbb->simple machines conversion script that I really need to start work on so that CAINE can migrate to forums that are actually feature complete (and have much more extensive moderation tools, have admin tools period, don't have weird bugs that result in posts becoming un-editable, etc.).