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I feel much better now.
Ah, that's better. I've created a custom friends group to manage my friends view properly. It was really getting out of control!
So if you click on the "Friends" view above, you'll see a core group of people whose posts I find particularly interesting. Flight of Stairs, Klyfix, and other friends: please get onto LiveJournal, so I can add you!
There are other people on my Friends list, but they're either so insanely prolific as to drown out all my other friends, or people that I haven't gotten to know that well.
I suppose I could test out one of the blog add-ons that I could run on my site. There's a certain appeal to that. But then I'd be isolated from the LJ people whose stuff I like to read, so I guess I won't take that step.
On other fronts...I got a reasonably hefty surpri$e/reward for working on my birthday. That, combined with the annual bonus and some birthday bucks, means that I can definitely get a new computer when/if I need it, and still have a LOT of money left over. Particularly because we just got our income tax results back from our tax accountant, and rather than owing several thousand dollars (as I feared) due to a complicated error, we're actually getting back a very nice chunk of change - more than I've ever received before, actually.
So among other things, we can actually think about buying a new bed.
Here's what we need in a bed:
There are a couple of interesting mattress stores on Route 1 heading towards Boston; we may look into those this weekend. I also found an online store which sells king-sized latex mattresses for under $800. But the boxspring issue would still be a problem, and Teri would very much like to have a sleigh-bed frame similar to the one that she has now (except king-sized, of course).
I don't know what it's like to sleep on a latex foam mattress, by the way; if anyone out there has tried it, please let me know how you liked it! I've been sleeping horribly for a long time now, and a really comfortable mattress would be simply wonderful.
Okay, even I think I've gone way overboard on this topic. Time to end it.
So if you click on the "Friends" view above, you'll see a core group of people whose posts I find particularly interesting. Flight of Stairs, Klyfix, and other friends: please get onto LiveJournal, so I can add you!
There are other people on my Friends list, but they're either so insanely prolific as to drown out all my other friends, or people that I haven't gotten to know that well.
I suppose I could test out one of the blog add-ons that I could run on my site. There's a certain appeal to that. But then I'd be isolated from the LJ people whose stuff I like to read, so I guess I won't take that step.
On other fronts...I got a reasonably hefty surpri$e/reward for working on my birthday. That, combined with the annual bonus and some birthday bucks, means that I can definitely get a new computer when/if I need it, and still have a LOT of money left over. Particularly because we just got our income tax results back from our tax accountant, and rather than owing several thousand dollars (as I feared) due to a complicated error, we're actually getting back a very nice chunk of change - more than I've ever received before, actually.
So among other things, we can actually think about buying a new bed.
Here's what we need in a bed:
- Bendability. Our 1835 house has a pretty narrow staircase (I guess people were smaller then
), and we actually destroyed a small window in the door frame while getting our queen-size mattress up the stairs. We basically destroyed the mattress, too; there are all sorts of broken springs inside it. As for the box spring, it was totally destroyed. So we need something that can be bent in half, and if there is a box spring, it needs to be in two small pieces. Apparently latex and foam are bendable, so we'll be going with one of those. - Size. King size, to be precise. I'm tired of being pushed off the bed by a combination of Teri, Sebastian, and our cat Sam.
- Comfort. Of course.
There are a couple of interesting mattress stores on Route 1 heading towards Boston; we may look into those this weekend. I also found an online store which sells king-sized latex mattresses for under $800. But the boxspring issue would still be a problem, and Teri would very much like to have a sleigh-bed frame similar to the one that she has now (except king-sized, of course).
I don't know what it's like to sleep on a latex foam mattress, by the way; if anyone out there has tried it, please let me know how you liked it! I've been sleeping horribly for a long time now, and a really comfortable mattress would be simply wonderful.
Okay, even I think I've gone way overboard on this topic. Time to end it.
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the Almighty Dubya!!!
Umm, okay, maybe not. :)
Oh well, can't really say much about what a comfy bed is 'cause, well,
I've not exactly slept in one of those in several years. Probably would
be too soft or something. In principle, I kinda like the idea of the bed
that has is something of a hybrid of conventional and air.