Many of you know that I hurt my back while at the gym back on the 25th of February so I won’t go into details of how it happened (e-mail me if you really want to know). I could barely move that following Sunday and then when I went in to work on Monday it was quite a task sitting still in the crappy chairs they give us. I requested a footrest to try and take the pressure off my back and was told I had to get an Ergonomic Assess through HR before I could get one.

I went and had that done and then I got CC’d on an email from HR to my manager saying “it’s been determined he needs a foot rest, have him order it in the way stuff is ordered in your department.” It’s been a week and still no footrest!

Well Monday came and went and I started to get this shooting pain in my right hand and fingers and palm. I thought I had slept on my hand or something but this pain s different from that. The bone is hurting so I took some Tylenol and it went away and yesterday the pain was worse. By the end of yesterday it had gotten up to my right elbow as well. I went to RiteAid last night and purchased a hand splint. I think I’ve got the beginnings of carpal tunnel syndrome, but I hope not!

At the office I’ve requested to get a MS natural keyboard and I’ve also ordered a mouse (the Evoluent VerticalMouse 2)  that’s more comfortable to use. I’ll review it when I get it.

The world’s oldest person celebrated his 115th birthday Monday, offering advice on healthy living at a party:

“I never damaged my body with liquor,” said Mercado, who quit a 76-year smoking habit when he was 90.

I was just taking a break from coding for the past hour and I found this article on MSN which was quite interesting. The author, Alan Mozes, states that sleep deprivation is the cause of weight gain.

“We all need to be aware there is a relationship between sleep and obesity,” says J. Catesby Ware, chief of the division of sleep medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School, and director of the Sleep Disorder Center at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital in Norfolk, Va.

What do you think? Have you slept less lately and found yourself to be less energetic and even gained a few unwanted pounds? I think this might be something because even though I’m very health concious these days, no matter how much I’m hitting the gym, I’ve gained a few; so I think Mozes is right, and I’m going to try to sleep more.

I actually felt very burned out yesterday. I got home from work around 6pm and went to bed at 8:45pm! Granted I woke up at 4am, but I felt a lot better. Not knowing what to do at 4am because I couldn’t go back to sleep, I went to the gym for about 90 minutes to do some cardio.

Comedian Will Hessler is interested in bringing back the tight rolled pants, a fashion fad from the 1980s.

He has setup a page on MySpace, go check it out. BTW, has anyone owned a pair of these?