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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Constant Reader who wrote (22835)	8/17/2001 6:25:53 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

How can you use a computer while laying on a mattress? And just what is she laying?? Sorry for picking on you. But the misuse of lay and lie is one of my hot buttons.

To: Constant Reader who wrote (22835)	8/17/2001 6:37:31 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 82486

How can you use a computer while laying on a mattress? It's quite easy, if you're motivated, or lazy, as I am. It's a little harder since I got my notebook. I lie on my left side with my head on a pillow (also Tempurpedic) and the computer on the bed in front of me. I keep a small, barley hull pillow under my right forearm so that it lines my arm up with the top of the touch pad. Works great. Until a few months ago, I used a desktop computer. I did pretty much the same thing but I needed large fonts to read the monitor which was on a bedside table. I had a wonderful mouse pad, which was flat on the top and like a beanbag on the bottom (maybe you've seen them as armchair ashtrays), so it stayed level on the bed. When I typed, I picked up the keyboard, set one end on the barley hull pillow, and the other on my right knee. Where there's a will, there's a way. Karen