Ideal Bite

There's one thing laptop cases can't protect me from: computer screen-related eye soreness. I tried acupuncture a few times, but it didn't work - probably because I really needed to address the root of the problem and just try to avoid staring at screens so often.

I used to complain about it all the time, much to the boredom of my coworkers and friends; now I suck it up and do a couple things that help the strain a bit:

Am I missing anything?

-Toshio...off to gaze out my window at unsuspecting strangers walking below...

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Want a green job?  There's always another option... start your own business.

I definitely don't recommend it for the faint of heart.  In fact, unless you are 100% devoted to the idea, and believe with all your heart that it will work, I say run away.

But if you DO have that itch that just needs to be scratched...

It's a great, green world these days, people.  If you have a good idea - take a swing. The time has never been more ripe.

-Heather... off to heat up my buckwheat pillow to warm my toes in bed...

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In the strange litany of the many ways in which I contradict myself constantly, today's tip takes the cake.  Inexplicably, I have an almost-miserly feeling about printers and printing.  When Jen and I were raising money for Ideal Bite, and we had to print out fancy copies of charts and biz plans to give to people in powerful positions, I would have printed each copy in gray draft mode, if I'd been allowed to.  I stealthily set friends' and family members' printers to default draft mode whenever I borrow their machines, and often wonder how long it takes for them to realize it.  We all have our "things, and, well, print-efficiency is one of mine.

It's odd to me that the whole printing thing can affect me like a knife in the ribs, while I can sit through an occasional steak dinner without thinking too much about the ramifications of eating grain-fed red meat.  I just moved into a

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Do you remember when the internet first took off and not long after everyone was saying, "Soon we will have paperless offices!" In fact, the opposite happened.

I think it did for two reasons:

1) we are sending a TON more information around, so much information that people can't keep up with all the emails so they need to print them off for weekend or subway reading.

2) we don't trust e-data yet...we might lose it to cyberspace or something so we hit "print."

So are we paperless at Ideal Bite?  Absolutely not.  However, here's what we are able to do:

• Reuse paper by sending it back through on the other side when it is not sensitive info.
• Use the edit mode in Word like nobody's business. As just one example, our tips go through about 5 rounds of

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