Ouch!

We turned the futon over a few days ago (which you're supposed to do regularly, and we have been lax about), and apparently went from a lumpy-but-tolerable configuration to one that I cannot sleep on without hurting myself.

Specifically, I have been having trouble finding a good position to fall asleep in: and even when I do (as last night) I'm waking up with pain down my left side, pain bad enough that I can't get back to sleep and that the mornings, at least, are difficult. We've already tried re-flipping it, but I suspect we'll have to try that again. I may also try stuffing clothes (something from the back of the closet, that I haven't worn in ages, if possible) under it in the interests of getting closer to flat.

Yes, we need a new bed. cattitude wants a Western-style mattress and box spring; I've no strong objection to such (though I like that the futon-and-frame are nearer the floor), but am wondering if it makes more sense to get a new futon, and plan to throw it away soon, than to spend the money for an entire new bed right now.

I'm also wondering if there's any point in not having tea: that is, any chance that I'll go back to sleep this morning. Probably not.

Ouch!

We turned the futon over a few days ago (which you're supposed to do regularly, and we have been lax about), and apparently went from a lumpy-but-tolerable configuration to one that I cannot sleep on without hurting myself.

Specifically, I have been having trouble finding a good position to fall asleep in: and even when I do (as last night) I'm waking up with pain down my left side, pain bad enough that I can't get back to sleep and that the mornings, at least, are difficult. We've already tried re-flipping it, but I suspect we'll have to try that again. I may also try stuffing clothes (something from the back of the closet, that I haven't worn in ages, if possible) under it in the interests of getting closer to flat.

Yes, we need a new bed. cattitude wants a Western-style mattress and box spring; I've no strong objection to such (though I like that the futon-and-frame are nearer the floor), but am wondering if it makes more sense to get a new futon, and plan to throw it away soon, than to spend the money for an entire new bed right now.

I'm also wondering if there's any point in not having tea: that is, any chance that I'll go back to sleep this morning. Probably not.

Feeling a bit better

After cattitude got up, I went and lay down in the middle of the bed for a little while. I didn't get back to sleep, but my muscles are happier. Also, I've now had some tea.

Feeling a bit better

After cattitude got up, I went and lay down in the middle of the bed for a little while. I didn't get back to sleep, but my muscles are happier. Also, I've now had some tea.

Answering rhetorical questions

Someone at my job handed around copies of an article about Eats, Shoots and Leaves . The article includes the rhetorical question "How can you resist a book dedicated to 'the memory of the striking Bolshevik printers of St Petersburg who, in 1905, demanded to be paid the same for punctuation marks as for letters, and thereby directly precipitated the first Russian Revolution'?"

Well, it's a good thing the author claims to be a punctuation expert, not a copyeditor or historian, because I answered that one immediately: there were no Bolsheviks in 1905. That factional split (and wonderful example of propagandistic naming, right up there with "Moral Majority") hadn't yet happened. Socialist printers, sure. Communists, quite possibly. Not Bolsheviks.

And this on a book that's supposedly about the value of accuracy and precision.

[Crossposted to an open thread on tnh's Making Light, far enough down that I don't know if anyone will notice it.]

Answering rhetorical questions

Someone at my job handed around copies of an article about Eats, Shoots and Leaves . The article includes the rhetorical question "How can you resist a book dedicated to 'the memory of the striking Bolshevik printers of St Petersburg who, in 1905, demanded to be paid the same for punctuation marks as for letters, and thereby directly precipitated the first Russian Revolution'?"

Well, it's a good thing the author claims to be a punctuation expert, not a copyeditor or historian, because I answered that one immediately: there were no Bolsheviks in 1905. That factional split (and wonderful example of propagandistic naming, right up there with "Moral Majority") hadn't yet happened. Socialist printers, sure. Communists, quite possibly. Not Bolsheviks.

And this on a book that's supposedly about the value of accuracy and precision.

[Crossposted to an open thread on tnh's Making Light, far enough down that I don't know if anyone will notice it.]