Like the author of the article, I was totally stoked about jumping on the "standing desk" bandwagon. I had thought about getting a counter height table to save

Like the author of the article, I was totally stoked about jumping on the "standing desk" bandwagon. I had thought about getting a counter height table to save on costs over a sit-stand. Before I made a big purchase decision, however, I figured I'd set one up using some spare furniture as stands just to make sure the idea worked for me. For the first 30 minutes of standing, I wondered "wtf was I thinking?" After standing for an hour, I did get used to it. After a couple of weeks, I realized a stand-only table was actuallly not a good idea for me. It wasn't so much related to fatigue (I do squats periodically to break the monotony and get the blood flowing), but I realized that for me, some work was just better done sitting. My hand-eye coordination was never good to start with, and it was a little less precise (or maybe I'm a little less patient) when standing. I find that mouse-intensive work like manipulating an SVG in Inkscape or placing objects in a PowerPoint requires me to sit down. I'm actually thankful I set up my temporary standing setup, because I realized that for a long term solution, I need either a sit-stand desk, or a something like a Varidesk (http://ca.varidesk.com/ http://ca.varidesk.com/) or a Winston (http://www.lcdarms.com/winston-sit-stand-workstation.php http://www.lcdarms.com/winston-sit-stand-workstation.php).