Minor life hack that makes sense if you're ... well, you probably have to have my setup, I think...

So, if you're me, you occasionally go to the hospital to get a Concerning Symptom checked out. And also if you're me, you have a highly specific keyboard setup (split keyboard, glass monitor stands as anti-catlike typing). Also also if you're me, you fill your pill cases on top of the keyboard's kittyguards.

So you have a problem with the pill cases trying to migrate off the ends of the glass keyguards.

But fortunately, the last time you were in the emergency room they put the heart monitors on you. With the older-style snap leads instead of the new ones with the tiny square and the tab that they clip the alligators to.

So now you have a piece of 3M sticky foam with conductive gel in the middle, and a snap on top. Stuck to you. And you need to take it off before you shower, and it feels just a touch wasteful that you can't put them to a good use.

I have started sticking them on the ends of my kittyguards, so the pill boxes don't fly off. They get a little battered, but hey, upcycling!


(No particularly recent hospital trips, just I was shuffling things around on my desk and realized that I perhaps had not discussed this particular piece of reduce-reuse-recycle.)