You can skip the writeup and find pictures here. I outdid myself this time, 100 photos after the usual trimming.
A weekend of sand and waves; Sui and I headed down to Monterey, neither of us having gone to this sunny location only two hours away. Sui especially needed a little reprieve in between her busy summer and fall optometry clinical schedule, so off we went to the other Northern California bay, one without the generous dose of fog.
The plan was to hit the world-famous aquarium, stay overnight, then spend a second day walking along a trail along the water, checking out interesting landmarks along the way. It was a quickie getaway, and I had to head back home in time for work the day after.
One of the points our ergonomic consultant made was to prefer keyboard to mouse use. Apparently, our hands and wrists are worse off with gliding motions than with stationary typing, and in most setups the device sits on a flat surface we have to reach for. The combination makes for quick carpal tunnel; laptop trackpads aren’t much better from their cramped positions, and they’re a pain to use.
Then there’s the obvious advantage of efficiency with keyboard shortcuts – they’re faster to input, and they keep your hands in the same position for additional typing. Mousing requires precious seconds of hand-eye coordination to hunt down the right pixels to click, and commits the entire hand to its usage. No wonder high-end mice are evolving to include more and more buttons to access common functions with simple tactile buttons.
Just a small pictures update, from a Game Afternoon/Evening we threw a few weeks back, and Kenric’s mid-summer BBQ, complete with babies. Yes, we’re getting to that age.
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Edit: Argh, the pictures may be a little blurry. Had to resize them a little bit to fit the page in a forthcoming theming of the picture pages. The larger 1600×1200 pictures should still be ok; any blurring there is solely from my crappy camera work.
