Ouch

I'm writing this from home. I'm confined here by mysterious muscle pains down my thigh.

You may think that working in bioinformatics means that you're safe from lab health and safety concerns like pipette RSI, being blinded by exploding liquid nitrogen etc. and that's true - but don't underestimate the cost of not talking a walk around every hour and a half or doing some desk excercises like you're supposed to.

I find it difficult to tear myself away from coding projects once I've gotten started - I like to just put my head down and work away until it's time to go for lunch or to go home. Unfortunately I'm now paying the price for that attitude...

Top tip for the day: that you all get up from your workstations and take a brisk walk.