Ikea hack that doesn't suck

I subscribe to Ikea hacker based only on the premise that it is fun to mix and match from different series and get interesting results.  My trouble with most of them is that rather than a repurousing the "hacks" often are a little more art project than furniture.  Fancy lamp shades or some other b.s.

This hack is actually pretty much the reason I follow, the diamond in the ruff so to speak.  A lift up bed for access to under bed storage.

I have a King size bed that I actually use the void beneath for storage and the way it works for me is I have to pull the mattress all the way off the bed and then pull out one of the box springs.  Thankfully the box spring is just two full sized box springs rather than a single king, I could not imagine trying to maneuver that size of a box spring up the damn stairs.  I think I could ditch the box springs and switch over the the Ikea equivalent, but the hydralics would have to be really heavy duty to hold the weight of the bed.  

cold brain for sleep

If you didn't read the articles on the internet about cooling your brain for better sleep you must have been under a rock for the last 2 weeks.  I actually suffer from periodic bouts of insomnia, the kind that involves me not getting my mind to quiet down long enough for me to go to sleep.  On Sunday night I had a reason to give this theory a go, and for me it looks like bullshit.

I had two freezer icepacks on my head for about 45 minutes, and still away 3 hours later.  I realize I didn't have their special fancy cooling cap on, but I didn't feel any benefit from cooling my noggin.

Anybody else give this a try?  I would be curious to see a group of people independently try this out to form some sort of a random sample.

Sleep and boning

The internet being the wide open field that it is, I was reading a Cracked article on the things I am probably doing wrong.  I typically don't click on these type of footer link spam, but serendipity is fun sometimes so I followed through to the article, and at the bottom of the first page was a link to a New York Times article on binomial sleep.  More interesting was the part about how the time of wakefulness that occurs in between the two blocks of sleep is knows for being the best time for getting it on.  The rational being that after a few hours of rest your are more focused on what you are doing and rested to boot.  Just one more damn thing in my life to change I suppose, go to bed early.