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The Apple TrackPad I bought a while back has taken a long time to get used to. I still don't use it to play Minesweeper, but use the Everywhere Mouse by logitech. The Everywhere mouse is hard to get away from. It has to be the best regular type of mouse I've ever used. I don't think I'll get away from using both. Sometime at the same time.
My first-hand knowledge that I had rheumatoid arthritis showed up as what I considered to be carpal-tunnel syndrome. It took a couple of years or more for me to get diagnosed with RA. I've had serious problems with my hands and wrists for years. Buying the TrackPad was one of the best moves I could have made as far as giving my hands and wrists a break.
The touch feature of the TrackPad takes some getting used to. Mostly, it's remembering to use those touch and swipe features instead of reaching for the standard mouse. Once I developed a habit of using the TrackPad it got easier to operate, and remarkably, with the softest, teeny tiniest touch. That's great for my RA pains.
Playing the major and minor scales on my digital piano is not done with the "softest, teeny tiniest touch". I get bored just mechanically moving up and down the keyboard, so a lotta times I start trying to play the scales in a more dramatic fashion so that I noodle my way up the scale and come crashing down to the bottom of it with pizzazz!
That's fun, but sometimes it's hell on my fingers. I am, however, moving right along while playing the scales now. First I learned to play the major scales, then added the relative minor to each major scale. The relative minor uses the same piano keys as the major scale, I just start four half-steps lower, and move around the Circle of Fifths in one direction, and now, more recently, the other direction around the Circle of Fifths again.
My youngest brother may be going insane. When I got up this morning and checked my e-mail I had a post from him with this link attached to it:
http://www.ted.com/talks/christopher_mcdougall_are_we_born_to_run.html
This speaker talks about being a runner and reiterates the story going around about how homo sapiens' greatest feature is the ability to sweat and run for long distances. I've written about this before. It's not my idea, but I sorta think it's probably true.
He talked about how humans learned to hunt in packs in order to stampede their prey and then chase after them until they had a heat stroke. It's because furry animals, including horses, don't sweat as profusely as humans do.
Humans can run for hours in the heat of the day, and as long as they hydrate occasionally they'll be fine. Not the animals they prey upon though. Animals like the grazing stock of the savannas can run really fast, but not that far running all out. The packs of humans stampede them and run after them until they fall down exhausted, and then all the humans need to do is bonk them in the haid caveman style. THUD!!
The TEDtalk video is pretty interesting, but I'm fairly familiar with the ideas he seemed espoused to. Even when he started talking about running long distance races barefooted and how the injuries he and most long distant runners suffer from all disappeared once he started running barefooted.
I'm suspicious about why my brother sent me this link. His 64th birthday just happened January 28th. Everybody realizes that Aquarians are known for their eccentricities. I think my brother is gonna start taking our walks together barefooted. Maybe I will too. What else we got to do?
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I do not attempt to tell the God's own truth here because I don't know what the truth is or hardly ever. I try to capture the drifting thoughts that randomly appear in my imagination for reasons I may not understand. I don't know if the content I capture with these words is true or false. The Comments settings are turned off to prevent me from having to defend what amounts to little more than fanciful, sometime crude speculation. Great moments in our lives never return.
