July 10, 2006
the bag-knot remedy
The more I get into technology, as a web and graphic designer and media maven, the more I feel a need to counter-balance it with more simple ways of doing things, resorting to home remedies and do-it-yourself solutions--Whole Earth stuff.
Like my latest home-remedy/invention. I now have a solution to a very new and modern problem, caused by excessive computer use.
You know that knot you get in your back, in the middle of the back shoulder of your mousing arm, after you've been on your computer too long? My remedy/invention deals with it.
It also helps by getting you away from the computer for a while. In fact, it encourages outdoor walking and exercise.
Here's how you do it: you find a cloth bag like the one pictured (it's from a Tibetan shop; also available in most fair trade shops).
Then tie a knot in the strap of the bag, in such a way that when you put it on, with the bag in front, knot in back, directly over, and digging into a little bit, the shoulder-knot caused by too-much mousing (pictured).
Then you go on a long walk through your neighborhood and town. As you go, if you keep the knot in the same place, you'll get a little massage as you walk.
You'll have to experiment with tying the knot a few times before you're able to place it just right over the shoulder-knot.
You'll have to experiment with what you put in the bag. You need to weigh it down with heavy books (flutes, sketch-books, fruit also allowed), in order to give it the weight it needs to dig into and massage that shoulder-knot in your back.
I give this remedy/invention a name. It is called "the bag-knot remedy."
It also has a verb form: "to tie a knot in the strap of a cloth bag and wear it in such a way that the knot massages the shoulder-knot caused by excessive mousing."
(You like my pseudo-monk drag?)
Posted by jeb at July 10, 2006 7:42 PM | TrackBack