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Hm, my email host isn't answering since yesterday evening. Time to switch off the automatic redirection from my main address and instead POP the mail from there, methinks.

I hope it'll get fixed soon; I prefer to POP the mail from PICON since it's less congested.

Buying pillows

Stella and I just went shopping for a new pillow; mine is getting rather old and she doesn't have a real pillow at the moment. We're both looking for anatomically formed ones.

We had a look in different shops but I couldn't decide; however, there were three that struck my fancy: one from Karstadt by "Paradies" (which is, I think, the same brand of pillow I now have), one from a shops specialising in health care which had a neck depression and firm spots on the sides for when you lie on your side (and even small depressions for your ears!) and which you buy in a size to fit you as exactly as possible so that your neck and spine are supported, and one which "reacts to your body warmth" and moulds itself to the right shape, and which you can return within 30 days if you're not satisfied -- unusual for something that comes into such close contact with your body.

Stella was more for one advertised as being good for people sleeping on their stomachs since, she says, she doesn't spend a lot of time sleeping on her side or back.

Unfortunately, the pillows I looked at were all in the €80-85 range, which was too expensive for the money Stella had saved up. She says she'll have another look on Monday when the end-of-winter sale starts to see whether they'll reduce the price for some of the pillows (it doesn't hurt to look). Otherwise we'll just have to wait a little longer.

Eating out

Stella and I went to Block House (a chain of steak restaurants) today. What prompted me was the recent advertisements they have hanging out at bus stops all over Hamburg advertising their heated cow muscle with plant seeds in protective covering as a side dish.

The meal was rather nice (though I think steak isn't really for me -- I thought I'd give it a try again since some people seem to enjoy them a lot). What was icky was afterwards.

( People smoking who annoyed me )

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This afternoon, I was reading an entry in timwi's journal where he referred to an entry rho wrote in lj_support (and in which she referred to another entry in her journal), and all that got me thinking.

Basically, those articles are about depression and doing something about it.

I'd like to quote from the original entry: ( Read more... )

Apparently, this prompted timwi to get an appointment with a psychologist.

And that made me think... ( Read more... )