A 50-something French dude that's old enough to think blogs are still cool, if not cooler than ever. I also like to write and to sketch.
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So I was wondering if anyone here with lower back issues has found a chair that helped them sit?
Yes and no.
Sitting is the/my enemy. So, I use an adjustable standing desk with the best standing mat I could afford.
When I can/wan to sit, I sit, while the rest of the time I have the desk at my usual standing height and use the standing mat instead of the chair. The standing mat is key to help reduce fatigue & stress (feet, legs and back). I may also put it at different heights from time to time, depending how... tired my back is.
At least as important, I try to never sit longer than an hour.I will get up and walk (either going out for a real long walk) or just be standing and walking in my home office. I may even dictate draft notes to a pocket recorder while I'm doing that.
As you can imagine, the chair is not the most important for me in that configuration but I do have one. It is one of those gaming chairs. Just a model for people that are well over my weight (so it's rather firm). It's ugly as hell (and quite large) but it offers all the adjustments I need : height and the ability to lean back as much as I wish (it can almost lay flat). I removed the arm rests that are rather... useless and cumbersome. When I sit, I also use a little cushiony stand thingy, on which I rest my feet at a slight angle. This seem to quite help my back too.
Imho, your doctor should be able to suggest you some better chairs than any random stranger online could... even if it's me ;)
Still, I hope this can help you a little bit: I know too well how our back can be a bitch.
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Ideals should remain just that: idea(l)s. Be fine with them not being... a reality.
I have been journaling for 50 years or so (started as a little 7 year-old boy and I'm now nearing my 60s). My life is not remarkable, and I don't much tings out of the ordinary. I journal for various reasons:
- As a child, as a way to escape the... painful situation I was in
- Then, very quickly, after I realized the amazing power writing was giving me, to outsmart my mother and his need to control me.
- Then, journaling had already become a habit. I just do it (or don't do it, some times for very long period of time I will not care about journaling and I consider this fine too)
I now journal to put some order in my head and to keep a record of things and stuff around me. As a record, I feel no need to write long paragraphs. Heck, I even record the weather and... my mood, in a single word or two, sorry the pictures of my journals are in French (I write it mostly in French) but you can get the idea. As for putting order in my head, it depends: it will be long or short depending what I'm writing about, I don't care provided it helps me ;)
Btw, the link I shared goes to a journaling community I'm the admin of. Feel free to join and to participate: you're more than welcome. Even though it looks a bit too sleepy for teh time being, like I promised a few months ago, I should be able to start again investing some time in it soonish, The things that are still keeping me busy are just more demanding than expected ;)
Usually I don’t care about “correct” language at all, I’d even argue languages that change are alive and changes are often invisible to those with rigid or discriminatory thinking.
But then, without any... 'discriminatory thinking' (odd choice of words, to non-native English speaker-me at least), how would we realize there is a change happening in any language if no one cared about some kind of rule-based system in said language?
That being said, I do agree with you a living language is one that changes (but it's also one whose users remember its roots and its evolution, making them able to pick the ball, be it to play with it or to transform it as deeply as they fancy as one needs to understand a problem before trying to fix it). But being alive does not have to mean 'anarchy' or there quickly won't be much ability left to communicate (aka the agreement of the both of us on the meaning of the words we use) ... Like there would not be much people alive around us if there was not this things called 'the law': no law is immutable but all existing laws better be respected, and if it is a bad law it needs to be changed... by people who studied it first ;)
To answer your rather surprising question (it's a very... specific chose of words while there are many other and much... wider notions out there the younger generation seems to have lost track of), it probably has to do with the lower level of their education (not their fault, but they are the one paying dear price for it... I almost cried the first time I read this). There can be no 'nuances' where there is no education to it. And without much reading going on, well, there is even less of it. As a matter of fact, there is less of everything... even the ability to realize one may be lacking in something specific.
The one you feel at home with? I mean, beside technical considerations (how it's working) instances are made of and by people, so yeah: to what place would you rather go spend some time? ;)
Going out and meet cool people at the library? ;)
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None.
I mean, nearing my 60s, I've already trimmed down a lot of my hobbies. For example, since my childhood I have been on and off into plastic models (small plastic planes and vehicles to glue and to paint) but I let go of that hobby completely maybe 4 years ago. It still liked it, I just had to decide where I really wanted to spend that time, and I had other things to do.
What won't go away, for as long as I'm able to at least, is reading/writing, sketching and painting (watercolor), long walks, listening (playing too, but barely) to music, and making stuff with my hands.
I don’t foresee myself coming back to the comic universe any day soon.
I don't know your age but don't be surprised if that does not go as planned. I will stick to my plastic model hobby: I had been off for almost 20 years at one time, I was just too busy after College but then, one day, out of the blue, and certainly not thinking the slightest about plastic kits, I stumbled upon a shiny box in some shop, looked at it and felt a familiar thrill in my spine, thinking this, I would like to build and paint I put it back on the shelves, could not resit going back to look at it after I finished shopping, put it in the cart with some glue and paint and, well, I was back at it ;)
Does she? Had no idea, but that may not come has a surprise they both shared the same ability to create entire worlds that were so effing convincing :)
I just finished reading of Cordwainer Smith first volume of his Instrumentality of Mankind. I read it in a French translation I was given, not expecting much out of it, I was almost decided to just give to a friend of mine but then decided to give it a chance, just reading a few pages to see what it was all about and if it was any good... I could not put it down. Most of the time, I was very much impressed. It's smart, it's bright, deeply humane, and very imaginative too. It was subtle or not so subtle, depending the story. And most of the time it was very well crafted. I felt like a moron to never have read anything by this dude.
I liked the book so much I picked the next 3 volumes of that set... in their French translation, like the first volume I just read, as I was unable to get my hands on any English print edition.
This evening, not sleeping, and alone in our new but yet unfurnished apartment (save a few books, obviously), I started re-reading of The Hobbit, this one in its original English ;)
It is, indeed :)
What I always do: read and/or write.
Night is often much quieter than the rest of the day, which makes it perfect for quiet activities like reading and writing. And in the early morning I can even stop reading/writing in order to listen birds singing which is even better... before the roaring motorized traffic cover their tiny voice for the rest of the day (yes, I do live in a busy city).
France: salaries are paid on a monthly basis in most situations.
how do you determine an album is one of your favorites?
- I listen a lot to it. Some of my favorites albums (or tunes) I've been listening to most of my life since I was a little boy (now nearing my 60s)
- I have favorite recordings of certain pieces. Even more so in regards to classical music, which happens to be the genre of music I listen the most to and have been listening to since I was a child, thx to my parents listening to it and quickly allowing kid-me me to use their LPs (that was back in the 70s, they were kinda high-tech back then ;)
- I can sing the song and, when there are, I know the lyrics from memory. That's one of the reasons I can safely say Jacques Brel and Georges Brassens are among my favorite French singers ever. The other reasons being that, for anyone able to understand French, they've written some of the most amazing songs ever... But there would be many more favorites of mine that have written master pieces, and not just in French ;)
I get what you're trying to share, which makes a lot of sense, but now reframe it in a different context (just an hypothesis, obviously not an affirmation) : you live surrounded by assholes (say, racists ones), should you mind what they think about you (not being a racist)?
I would say at least as much time as it takes to get an appointment with the real Santa Claus (not with one of those many actors, malls & shops everywhere are using to lie to kids) times the time it would take to tame and then to train the Easter Bunny, persuading it to lay actual eggs instead of chocolate ones.
But it could be done much faster provided one can somehow get Rumpelstiltskin to transform gold into straw. Which is rather difficult.
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Like mentioned it depends the law/country/situation. Best course of action would be to contact a lawyer, but this will cost money.
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The Web (the WWW, upon which all websites are build) is less than 40 years old... I know this may seems like an eternity to younger people but it's younger than me and during that short period of time a lot of 'popular' websites have vanished already.
So, yeah, all websites will probably end up going away. Even more so those belonging to Google (like YT) who is known for not minding killing perfectly fine websites and services...
I was really surprised how easy Mint went on, everything worked the first bootup.
Yes, Mint is my other system (on my main machine) and it runs buttery smooth. It was running ok on the C2D but not as smooth as Debian... but what OS could run as smooth? ;)
I have been a Apple user since de early 80s (yep, I'm that old) and switched to Linux somewhere 7 or 8 years ago. It all depends what you want to do and what are your expectations (how willing you're to change your habits and the way you do things: Linux is not a free version of macOS, it will demand learning new ways and changing habits) but I've had zero regrets. No, that would be a lie as I have one tiny regret: I should have switched to GNU/Linux a few years earlier.
Indeed. And even without looking for heroes, or role models. Try to be the best version of yourself does not mean you have to be perfect, nor that other people should be.
We're all filled with flaws. No matter how amazing we've been told we are, or how amazing we think we are, or even how amazing we can indeed be (lucky you).
Doesn't mean you need to accept the unacceptable, just be realistic. Don't you ever fart in bed? Don't you ever pick your nose? Don't you like to eat some crap from time to time? Don't you like to watch/listen to/read and actually do some real stupid shit, from time to time? I do!
Me? I'm the sum of countless flaws plus a few scarce qualities. I know it and so does my spouse, which is also filled with her own flaws btw, the person who I love today at least as much as I have been loving her for the last 30 years or so we've been together... and counting.
Yes! They're all around us. They're just not perfect and they've not been waiting for us to debark in their life.
So, when we're dismissing them because of their perceived flaws/imperfections, or because of something/someone they like we don't like... we're missing out on their qualities and maybe on getting to meet an amazing friend/partner/someone to spend time with.