When all the while

I could have been facing this way.....

Why? Oh, why

was my desk facing this way?

I mean, have you got no soul @onceuponatime???

And why was I sitting

12, 14, sometimes 18 hours a day

when I knew damn well that so much sitting

was bad, bad, bad for my health?

Yes, I had seen lots of the warnings,

but kept pushing them to the back of my mind.

Here's one example:

"We all know we need to be more active, but there is increasing evidence that we also need to spend less time sitting down.
To reduce our risk of ill health from inactivity, we are advised to exercise regularly – at least 150 minutes a week – and reduce sitting time.
Studies have linked excessive sitting with being overweight and obese, type 2 diabetes, some types of cancer, and early death.
Sitting for long periods is thought to slow the metabolism, which affects the body's ability to regulate blood sugar, blood pressure and break down body fat.
Many adults in the UK spend more than seven hours a day sitting or lying, and this typically increases with age to 10 hours or more.
This includes watching TV, using a computer, reading, doing homework, travelling by car, bus or train but does not include sleeping."
https://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/fitness/Pages/sitting-and-sedentary-behaviour-are-bad-for-your-health.aspx

and another:

Yes, sitting too long can kill you, even if you exercise

(CNN)Take a movement break every 30 minutes, say experts. No matter how much you exercise, sitting for excessively long periods of time is a risk factor for early death, a new study published Monday in Annals of Internal Medicine found.

There's a direct relationship between time spent sitting and your risk of early mortality of any cause, researchers said, based on a study of nearly 8,000 adults. As your total sitting time increases, so does your risk of an early death.
The positive news: People who sat for less than 30 minutes at a time had the lowest risk of early death.
https://edition.cnn.com/2017/09/11/health/sitting-increases-risk-of-death-study/

Finally I decided to do something

that I had been thinking about for a very long time.
I was going to get myself a stand-up desk and

turn my life around!!!

and I might just as well get a decent chair too
while I was at it :-)

A new chair you say, @onceuponatime?

Sorry for that.

Sometimes @twiceupontime disrupts my train of thought :-)

In Athens, the first store of IKEA opened in April 22, 2004 in the commercial park of Athens International Airport while the second store opened in close proximity to the city center in March 2008.

Eureka!

IKEA SKARSTA Sit Stand Desk Review:

Hey, it looked a little better
on the cover of the catalogue.......

Do these look like a desk to you?
Nope, me neither!

Despite having read The Old Dog's warnings

about reading instructions to the end
before beginning to undertake something,
https://steemit.com/treetuesday/@kus-knee/the-old-dog-presents-the-mean-teacher-and-the-burled-wood-contest-winners
I at times find myself to be
completely impervious to good advice :-)

And so I had to start over a couple of times
before finally getting to this stage:

It is a good thing

that I started by assembling the chair

(which actually went together pretty easily)

before attempting the stand-up desk, which, as I said,
I had to start over again (ie. disassemble)
more than once before I finally got to this:

But one last frustration awaited me!

The crank that is needed to raise the desk
from sitting to standing position and back

was bent!!!!!

and won't fit into the mechanism.

And so I am considering rage-quitting Steemit!!!

not that my FRUSTRATION has anything to do with steemit mind you,
just that is what all the COOL Kids seem to be doing these days
(taking out their frustrations on steemit)

And who doesn't want to be cool?

ouzo and out
@onceuponatime