I've worked desk jobs for so many years, I cannot count.

Typing, typing, tippy tap on an IBM selectric typewriter in the 1980s and part of the 1990s.

10-key adding machines.

Then, the computer!

Years and years of this with no problems at all.

What does me in every time?

Painting the house.

Did someone mention children's nutrition?

I am appalled by what many children are fed today.

At school, children get a lot of fried foods. The good people at the Tyson Chicken company make sure that kids get a lot of nuggets, fingers, patties, and other new chicken parts that you'd never heard of til the 1980s.

Beyond Tyson being in the school lunch room, Tyson wants you to buy their processed chicken for home use as well. Schools encourage parents to buy Tyson processed chicken products and send the proofs of purchase into the school. Tyson then gives some paltry/poultry payoff to the school for each proof of purchase.

"Mom! Mom! You have to buy Tyson fried nuggets. It's for the schooooool!"

On top of the fried stuff, our kids get a lot of sugar.

Fact alert: 29 grams = one ounce.

Eight ounces of reconstituted frozen orange juice has 24 grams, or almost 6 teaspoons of sugar.

Give a group of 4th grade Girl Scouts a can of frozen orange juice and they will beg to add sugar to it.

Give a group of 4th grade Girl Scouts reconstituted orange juice, a yogurt, a banana, and a cereal bar for breakfast and they will have had 58 grams of sugar, or almost 14 teaspoons!

They will still feel entitled to a doughnut.

Some suggest that it would be easier to just run down to the corner and buy the girls a box of doughnuts.

Give a group of 4th grade Girl Scouts a no-bake campfire dessert made of chocolate cake, cherry pie filling, chocolate pudding and Cool Whip and they will ask why they didn't get any S'mores.

Sigh.