Okay so last week I posted about my neck being toast by 6pm from sitting at my desk all day. A couple people suggested getting up for actual physical tasks instead of just stretching in the chair, and today I finally tried that for real.
There’s a little tool room in the basement of my building I’ve walked past probably 200 times and never once used. My dining chair’s back leg has been wobbly for about 3 weeks, and I finally dragged it down there instead of just living with the wobble like always.
Whoever stocks that room (still don’t know who) has a whole setup against the brick wall — vice, drill, a pegboard of bits, the workbench itself bolted right into the wall, everything lined up way neater than my actual desk upstairs. I clamped the leg in the vice, redid the screw, and ended up standing there for close to 40 minutes just fiddling with it.
My neck didn’t cross my mind once the whole time! First time in weeks I noticed that. Chair’s fixed, screw’s tighter than it’s ever been, and that basement room just went on my list of places to go back to next time my shoulders start locking up instead of gritting through it at the desk.