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Knitting with Fibro
LOL!
This is kind of in response to someone else who mentioned having fribromyalgia and how you have to knit for short periods rather than long stretches of time. I too have fibro. I also have some problems with my memory, or at least I must have because I put my knitting down a few minutes ago after knitting for about two hours. I couldn't figure out what was wrong with me, why I was so tired and ached all over. D'oh! Half an hour, maybe an hour at a time is more than enough, especially when it's hobby knitting and not knitting for a deadline. ;-) Murielle |
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On Jun 8, 9:49 am, "MSey" wrote:
Half an hour, maybe an hour at a time is more than enough, especially when it's hobby knitting and not knitting for a deadline. ;-) I'd say that's more than enough for anyone at one time! After an hour it would be time to put the kettle on for a cuppa anyway, let alone give muscles a rest. Computer workers aren't recommended to work solidly for more than an hour without a decent break either. VP |
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"Vintage Purls" wrote in message oups.com... On Jun 8, 9:49 am, "MSey" wrote: Half an hour, maybe an hour at a time is more than enough, especially when it's hobby knitting and not knitting for a deadline. ;-) I'd say that's more than enough for anyone at one time! After an hour it would be time to put the kettle on for a cuppa anyway, let alone give muscles a rest. Computer workers aren't recommended to work solidly for more than an hour without a decent break either. VP I used to be able to knit for hours while watching TV. Maybe it's the fibro, maybe it's my age. Or, maybe, back then, it just seemed like hours. ;-)) Murielle |
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VP wrote:
On Jun 8, 9:49 am, "MSey" wrote: Half an hour, maybe an hour at a time is more than enough, especially when it's hobby knitting and not knitting for a deadline. ;-) I'd say that's more than enough for anyone at one time! After an hour it would be time to put the kettle on for a cuppa anyway, let alone give muscles a rest. Computer workers aren't recommended to work solidly for more than an hour without a decent break either. Well...when one does medical transcription and needs to work between schlepping the kids to and from school and various other things, one works when one can. I pretty much type straight through from 10 AM until 2 PM, and again from about 4 PM until I'm done for the day, only taking breaks to make dinner and, if I'm particularly swamped, put the little one to bed. Any wonder my nerve damage has been showing itself lately??? And then what do I do if I have time after I'm finished typing to relax?? Knit, of course g The Other Kim kimagreenfieldatyahoodotcom |
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"The Other Kim" wrote in message ... VP wrote: On Jun 8, 9:49 am, "MSey" wrote: Half an hour, maybe an hour at a time is more than enough, especially when it's hobby knitting and not knitting for a deadline. ;-) I'd say that's more than enough for anyone at one time! After an hour it would be time to put the kettle on for a cuppa anyway, let alone give muscles a rest. Computer workers aren't recommended to work solidly for more than an hour without a decent break either. Well...when one does medical transcription and needs to work between schlepping the kids to and from school and various other things, one works when one can. I pretty much type straight through from 10 AM until 2 PM, and again from about 4 PM until I'm done for the day, only taking breaks to make dinner and, if I'm particularly swamped, put the little one to bed. Any wonder my nerve damage has been showing itself lately??? And then what do I do if I have time after I'm finished typing to relax?? Knit, of course g The Other Kim kimagreenfieldatyahoodotcom Exactly! Because knitting is relaxing. ;-) Murielle |
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Hi VP,
I've found when programming that doing exactly what you wrote actually _increases_ the speed of writing my plug-ins! - it somehow seems to expand my creativity and problem-solving. :-) David -- David R. Sky http://www.shellworld.net/~davidsky/ On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Vintage Purls wrote: Computer workers aren't recommended to work solidly for more than an hour without a decent break either. VP |
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On Jun 8, 5:37 pm, "David R. Sky" wrote:
I've found when programming that doing exactly what you wrote actually _increases_ the speed of writing my plug-ins! - it somehow seems to expand my creativity and problem-solving. :-) Indeed. Though this is a lesson that can't be taught to the average student in my experience, they equate "screen time" with productivity despite plenty of evidece to the contrary. It's a bit like trying to do a jigsaw puzzle, there is a point in one session where no matter how long you stare at the pieces you can't find the bit you want. Get up, do something else and come back to it - chances are good you'll spot the piece you want in the first minute. I often solve problems as I drift off to sleep - my subconcious sorts the logic and I have an "ah ha" moment, if I'm really lucky I manage to scrawl a few notes before I drift off, otherwise I often realise I can't remember my "brilliant" solution the next morning. VP |
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OT Hypnagogic state was Knitting with Fibro
I've solved many programming problems as I drifted off to sleep too - the
way I remember them is to wake up enough to deliberately picture the program code in my mind plus generate a feeling of the solution. It doesn't make sense for me to try to explain the feeling - it means something to my mind at the time I'm in bed. :-) I understand that Thomas Edison developed a strategy - when he was trying to figure out something, he'd put a tin plate on the floor underneath one of his hands as he sat in a comfortable chair, holding a piece of cutlery in the hand above the plate. As he drifted off to sleep and entered the so-called hypnagogic state you referred to, his hand relaxed enough to let the cutlery drop on the plate, which would wake him from the solution brewing in his mind. David -- David R. Sky http://www.shellworld.net/~davidsky/ On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Vintage Purls wrote: I often solve problems as I drift off to sleep - my subconcious sorts the logic and I have an "ah ha" moment, if I'm really lucky I manage to scrawl a few notes before I drift off, otherwise I often realise I can't remember my "brilliant" solution the next morning. VP |
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On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 22:37:34 -0700, "David R. Sky"
wrote: Hi VP, I've found when programming that doing exactly what you wrote actually _increases_ the speed of writing my plug-ins! - it somehow seems to expand my creativity and problem-solving. :-) For programming or anything else that requires serious thinking, that is certainly true. However, doing medical transcription, as Kim does, doesn't really require thinking, and actually I find that I can blaze away at those kinds of things if I get myself into a zone where I'm not much thinking at all. Taking a break requires time to get back to the zone. -- Barbara Vaughan My email address is my first initial followed by my last name at libero dot it. |
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On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:15:48 -0700, Vintage Purls
wrote: On Jun 8, 5:37 pm, "David R. Sky" wrote: I've found when programming that doing exactly what you wrote actually _increases_ the speed of writing my plug-ins! - it somehow seems to expand my creativity and problem-solving. :-) Indeed. Though this is a lesson that can't be taught to the average student in my experience, they equate "screen time" with productivity despite plenty of evidece to the contrary. It's a bit like trying to do a jigsaw puzzle, there is a point in one session where no matter how long you stare at the pieces you can't find the bit you want. Get up, do something else and come back to it - chances are good you'll spot the piece you want in the first minute. I often solve problems as I drift off to sleep - my subconcious sorts the logic and I have an "ah ha" moment, if I'm really lucky I manage to scrawl a few notes before I drift off, otherwise I often realise I can't remember my "brilliant" solution the next morning. VP -- Barbara Vaughan My email address is my first initial followed by my last name at libero dot it. |
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