I was defining those terms to sperate them from their other meanings, in slang (as if you didn't know LOL)
I don't consider a little physical activity, like doing a little trim work or painting to be manual labor. It's more like an exercise in me mastering the materials and making them do what I want them to do. There is a big advantage to that, paint and trim can't talk back. Now last week I did do some manual labor, on the wrong end of an idiot stick, shovel to most people. But that was by choice for my own purposes. The original owners of our house decided that if they wanted some extra soil for flower beds or whatever it was fine to just dig a hole in the back yard, here and there, rather than order some topsoil. We've been mulching since we moved in and the
three year old stuff was just right for fill, about 3 cubic yards of it. That did cause the appearance of water on various areas of my body even with temps in the upper 40s. Can't say I liked it much either.