Another night of hearin' myself talk

[austin_dern]

I suspect I use pillows wrong. They seem to end up flat and un-fluffable quicker for me than for other people. Probably I could do something about it, if I had useful skills, but I haven't, so I buy new pillows instead.

In the Tom and Stephanie store I noticed a Friven Contour Pillow promises it ``Reduces pain and giddiness caused by nerve root compression.'' I have never used a contour pillow, because they seem ergonomically designed, and ergonomic designers are tiny people with a sociopathic resentment of tall folks like me, who therefore design things -- chairs, bathtubs, cars, water fountains, cable boxes -- to be acutely painful for us. I would no sooner buy an ergonomic pillow than I would slap my skull with a rock.

Still the promise of curing giddiness intrigues me. I'm pleasant, and cheerful, yes, and if I sense your permission I'll strive to be gut-wrenchingly funny. However, I'm approximately as giddy as an average home furnishings store's kitchen faucet aisle. To achieve this level of non-giddiness my nerve roots can't be at all compressed; they must be sprawled over maybe several furlongs.

Perhaps I could achieve giddiness with a pillow that compresses nerve roots. But at what cost? It wouldn't do feel like dancing in the streets if my nerves were all bunched up to one side; I'd be prone to falling. I'm probably too old to learn how to use pillows differently anyway. I probably shouldn't have looked at the contour pillow at all.

Trivia: After the Apollo 1 Fire flight crews suggested 1,697 changes to the Command Module design, of which 1,341 were implemented. Source: We Have Capture, Thomas P Stafford and Michael Cassutt.

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Comments

[chefmongoose.livejournal.com]

How fast do you run through them, and how many do you use? For me.. the average pillow seems to last about 9 months to a year,m and I sleep currently with three- one body-pillow length one that runs the full length of my queen-size bed, and two smaller ones.

--Chiaroscuro

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Um ... I'm not positive of the record exactly. The ones I just replaced are perhaps four months old, but I think this was just a bad design. The ones before I think were maybe six or seven months or so.

[chahala.livejournal.com]

I once talked with an ergonomic designer and told them what I though of all of the designs for furnature and homes... hight of the kitchen counters.... john... and bathroom sink.

They really did think that being tall was some kind of crime... and when I suggested that they design things so that you could adjust the hight they almost whent catatonic.

Chahala

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

I'd always suspected as much. There's just no way chairs, particularly with armrests, can be so poorly fitted unless they're trying to make them horrible experiences. You just know these are the people who design web pages that have weird, fixed typefaces and try changing the width of your web browser.

[captpackrat.livejournal.com]

Try a feather pillow? They don't generally go flat as easily as cheap foam pillows. And you can fluff them back up easily.

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Mm, maybe next time. We'll see.

just having furlong and giddy

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

in the same posting.... LOL! ^v^

*sees your title though.... and awwwwws, with a long hugscritchawaggle..*

Re: just having furlong and giddy

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Aw, thanks. It's the words, though; they're more funny than regular words are.