Yesterday morning I came in to work and saw a box for an iPod Touch on a co-workers desk. My immediate reaction was how cool that was as I hadn’t seen one in person or had a chance to play with it yet. Jealoulsy hit shortly after that but it only lasted till I got to my desk because there in front of my keyboard was the little grey iPod Touch box and a note.  I was confused for a second and then the excitement built realising that I was being given this device , and from that point on for the rest of the day I was giddy as a school girl and had great difficulty keeping a permanent stupid grin off my face.  It’s one of those things that you hear some companies do for their employees and you wish you worked in such a place. I’m pretty excited to be here. Navarik is hands down the best place I’ve worked and getting an iPod Touch is a fantastic perk but not the main reason. It’s the people…all of them. From the people you work with day to day on projects to the people making the bigger decisions…like whether to get iPods for everyone.

You can watch the whole Dinesh D’Souza and Christopher Hitchens debate at D’Souza’s website. In another radio interview Dinesh implies that he didn’t go as easy on Hitchen’s as some other debaters, and I don’t know if thats true but it really didn’t seem like hardball to me. Hitchens is a fantastic speaker with a great voice and mind and so easily dominates a back and forth. He can ramble on at length cutting into D’Souza’s time walking over attempts to respond or get a word in, all the while sounding eminently polite and amenable. I’d really like to hear a Hitchens debate a Hitchens….someone with the same ability to dominate a debate with their personality. Then rhetoric and debate tactics all being equal maybe it’d be easier to see how the ideas square up against eachother. Come to think of it I guess thats why I enjoyed the Doug Wilson/Hitchens debate.

So we had this old, old, old mattress the origins of which I’m fuzzy on. I think I inherited it when I married Amy but at any rate it was uncomfortable and my back and neck were testifying to the fact. So after trying some fancy pillows that didn’t do much we went and got a new mattress at one of the Sleep Country sales. The thing was tall compared to our old one lying down on it seemed to pass the Goldilocks test – not too soft, not too hard.

Well I haven’t admitted it to anyone but my back and neck are worse than ever…I don’t know how but apparently increased comfort doesn’t equal decreased pain.

The boys are having sleeping problems last month or so and this has meant every night they end up in our bed. I usually wake up with a strip of bed less than a foot wide with a foot in my face. And I’ve tried the “uh uh uh…this is daddy’s bed, back to your own you go” but it means I have to be prepared for a fight at 4am which I’m usually not…so last night I gave in…ripped the Winnie the Poo comforter off my sons bed and crashed on the floor.

It was the best sleep I’ve had in sooo long! I’m considering foregoing the attempt of actually sleeping through the night in a bed and just start out where I’ll probably end up anyway-on the floor. I can stretch out, take up as much room as I want, and my back feels better to boot.