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       Stardate: 20230805.0635 
       Location: Guest room
       Input Device: Gemini PDA
       Audio: quiet, owl hooting outside and are not what they seem.
       Visual: Casted leg propped up on pillows
       Emotional: lost
       
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       I feel like I am broken.  On the surface I might seem ok but under-
       neath, it feels like something is seriously wrong here, mission
       control.  There is now a cast on my leg where I tore my achilles, 
       which has further impeded my mobility.  This injury has put the 
       brakes on, or even halted many things that could be going on had it 
       not manifested.  I think this was not happenstance, rather, this 
       needed to happen.  My trajectory has not been sustainable,
       
       Recently, I have been reacquainted with an old chair.  It is a chair
       that I was gifted by my friend, Sandy, when he was moving out of his 
       studio, almost 30 years ago (I feel so old now.)  The chair is old,
       metal, and heavy for its size.  Not sure how old it really is, but it
       was made during a time when things were built to last and made to be
       repaired by the owner of the chair with common parts found at a local
       hardware store.  Over the years I have replaced various parts, even
       re-riveting a couple broken rivets on the hinge that attaches the 
       back of the chair to the back post and also adding a tie-on seat
       cushion since the original chair padding has long since flattened
       over the course of use and time.
       
       This chair has supported me for many, many hours in front of my 
       computers and was my main computer chair for many years.  It was 
       replaced by a chair that I made from the driver's seat of my old Honda 
       mounted on the base of a recent repurposed "disposible" office chair 
       that you can commonly find discarded curbside on trash day.  The old 
       chair became a secondary chair for anybody who would wish to sit 
       along-side the operator working his craft.
       
       Recently, this heavy old chair has become very useful again.  As 
       mentioned earlier, my leg has been outfitted with a cast.  It has 
       been challenging navigating around my home with the Tiny Tims
       (crutches) and can be very tiring.  Enter the chair.  I have dis-
       covered that the chair is the perfect height for me to rest the 
       knee of my casted leg while I hold onto the back post and push off 
       with my better leg.  (The chair has a wheeled base.)  This allows 
       for a better effort to distance ratio, as well as increased effort 
       duration in comparison to the Tiny Tims.  Also, when I get tired of 
       that, I can sit in the chair and scoot slowly or just have a rest.
       
       Another thing I observed is that the chair has a low center of gravity
       since it has a heavy metal base.  This prevents the chair from 
       toppling over and provides a sturdy foundation.  Unfortunately, due 
       to the width of the base, I kept banging my better ankle and foot 
       against the heavy metal base when navigating, so additional footwear 
       is a good idea. 
       
       I am grateful to have this old chair and for discovering a new 
       purpose for it to serve me today.  It has served me well over the
       decades (eek!) and I look forward to its service in the days ahead.
       Old chair, you matter!
       
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