I have found that moving my office furniture around occasionally drives a new sense of approach to work life.
I decided to shift my office around this weekend, but the problem is plucking up the energy to do it. Once done, I will view the same problem from a different perspective and come to a new set of solutions and / or answers to it.
More interestingly, for years and years, I have been telling Annikki that I want to always sleep in the North - South direction. My theory has been that the earth's magnetic field should be in the same direction as the body so that the body gets total rest at night. I had a sense of unrest if I slept in the East - West direction.
At Kampitie we slept in the North - South direction and I always woke up completely rested.
When we moved to Vesaisentie, the bed was in the East - West direction. When I woke up in the morning, I felt a sense of uneasiness. So I would sleep on the sofa in the living room for an extra hour as that was in the North South direction. When I got up, I had a great feeling of being relaxed.
Annikki, and then Joanna, pooh-poohed my theory. (They always do!!!)
However, when Joanna and the kids came over for Easter, we had to get some mattresses out from under our beds. Annikki agreed to put our beds in the North South direction.
My sleep has beeen so comfortable since then.
Both Annikki and Joanna were alughing at my theory.
A few days ago a news item appeared
Magnetic alignment in grazing and resting cattle and deer
Sabine Begall*,†, Jaroslav Červený‡,§, Julia Neef*, Oldřich Vojtčch‡,¶, and Hynek Burda*
+Author Affiliations
*Department of General Zoology, Faculty of Biology and Geography, University of Duisburg-Essen, 45141 Essen, Germany;
§Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 60365 Brno, Czech Republic;
‡Department of Forest Protection and Wildlife Management, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences, 16521 Praha 6, Czech Republic; and
¶Sumava National Park Administration, Susicka 399, 341 92 Kasperske Hory, Czech Republic
Edited by Simon A. Levin, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, and approved July 17, 2008 (received for review April 15, 2008)
that when cows rest or graze, they always do so in the North - South direction.
The original study was to see in which direction campers pitch their nets, but as the sample size was small, they shifted to looking at cows and other animals - and this "unbelieveable" answer was obtained.
To me it does not matter whether the head is pointing north or south, but the body should be parallel to the earth's magnetic field.
Am I a silly old MOO?
