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Yes, and on top of that I use a vertical left-handed mouse. I am right handed but my dad made me switch to driving a mouse with the left hand some 25 years ago. I am forever thankful to him for that :) First, you'll be faster because you can use keyboard with the right hand and drive a mouse with the left. Second, load on your right hand is automatically lower. And third, just use vertical mouse for a much more comfortable hand position :)

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This sounds like what I was originally getting at.

Interesting that you like a 'special' (ie., not vanilla symmetric cheap'n'cheerful thing) mouse. I have not yet figured out (after [mumble] years) whether I want a keyboard/mouse setup that fits like a custom glove (the perfect mouse, the perfect keyboard with the perfect layout (colemak or some such), foot pedals for the shift keys, etc (haven't tried that, yet)) or a setup that I can make work for me at any kiosk... or some middle position between those two. Currently I'm at "make it work".

Vertical mice need not be too expensive these days. OK, now I use Evoluent Vertical Left 4 (the company bought it for me but IIRC it's $90), but before that I used some barely-not-noname-brand for $25 and it was decent for the money! My biggest complaint is that buttons were a bit hard to press (i.e. you need more force comparing to Evoluent).

Now about keyboard+mouse combo... Yes, it's a bit awkward to carry Kinesis Advantage 2 + Evoluent mouse around. I actually don't do it unless absolutely necessary. If I would have to work from someplace for a few days, I would just carry laptop :)

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