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We bought a new mattress about a week ago. Not a fancy-schmancy one (it has fairly minimal schmance), but still, a quite nice one. It's comfortable. It makes for an excellent night's sleep. I like it.

Why? Well, the old mattress was getting a little old, but mostly because of this post on Charlie Stross's blog. He makes a fairly simple point--if you spend a third of your life asleep, why not invest in quality for that sucker?--but it was something I hadn't really considered in that light before.

And thanks to the new mattress, I am, in fact, sleeping better and feeling more rested in the morning.

So, thank you, Science Fiction Writers Of Today! Or specifically, thank you, Charlie Stross! Good suggestion. I approve of it.

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Caesar's going a lot faster now that people are actually hiking all over the place. (Now, having said that, I'm probably going to hit another damn section of Let's Describe Border Geography.)

( Something works out for the Helvetii for once. )