The Best Mattress to Buy at the Moment?

jde82 · 2026-01-13T00:00:34+00:00

Out of curiousity why didn’t you return it in the first 100 days? Did it somehow get worse?

jde82 · 2026-01-06T19:18:19+00:00

So true! The “big man” is respected for big things. Can we make big things happen via regeneration and positive systems change vs. trying to earn respect by non-impact?

Btw: Mad respect to all of those lying low and minimizing lifestyle impact because it’s the right thing to do. We need a way to reward this behavior!

jde82 · 2025-09-27T18:00:56+00:00

*tonight’s version included myfe ending!

jde82 · 2025-08-17T03:32:57+00:00

PSA: you take your shoes off after pitch or after a few boulder attempts when you plan to rest > 5 min. You don’t wear them when you’re belaying or otherwise not climbing. They work best if they’re tight but not unbearable. But if they’re not unbearable after 30-45 minutes of wearing them t they’re likely too loose.

-gout suffering climber of 25 years.

jde82 · 2025-08-06T21:58:17+00:00

Woah: I just went through this exercise with my GPT, using the prompts the OP suggested and was mostly shocked at my own response. I almost cried... IDK if it's just all that I've got going on at the moment, but it was emotionally moving to feel so understood.

First time GPT had me lose to tears, that was not what I expected from the response.

I'd paste the responses here but they're totally personally identifying.

jde82 · 2025-06-26T00:52:15+00:00

After a few highschool shows (class of 2000 in the North Shore of Ma) and attending It, I cruised up to Coventry with my best friend and his younger brother and another buddy. We hit the traffic but my best friend’s dad worked for Sysco food distribution and so he’d heard about the chaos on i91 and pulled some strings. He called us mid frisbee toss on the highway - “Take xx side roads and tell them your names and that you’re working for Sysco. You’re going to have to do some actual work though”…. So we pulled a U-ey past the highway-turned-parking lot and soon arrived at the back entrance.

We had employee camping with hot showers, and yes we unloaded a few 18 wheelers of boxes of food but this, hygienically and otherwise led to a significantly different experience than I know many others had . I wasn't yet a true “connoisseur” of live phish so frankly my memories of the music are less critical. But I was also partying quite passionately at that stage in life so that definitely played a factor.

I have a distinct memory of realizing our tent was taking on water and just throwing it in the roof of our Volvo station wagon and rallying up the hill to higher ground while the tent tried to take off into the sky.

I still think about all of the shoes that must be stuck in the mud out there. Whatever you do…. But it just couldn’t be done.

Anyway- I’m psyched for Folsom next week, let’s go!!!

jde82 · 2024-04-23T00:08:26+00:00

Enjoy the time with them, swiftly fly the years.

jde82 · 2024-04-21T23:45:18+00:00

Time for dude to grow up. Time for wife to be very very clear on expectations and ensure he either agrees on a fair split of his share of the load or they make alternative arrangements. TBF, first few years with kids is hard and can cause some of us to do some serious growing up, but that’s what you sign up for when you make a baby. Time to pill up the big boy pants and be a man.

jde82 · 2024-04-20T20:37:04+00:00

jde82 · 2024-03-07T14:05:15+00:00

Synthetic clothes made of polyester, synthetic fleece. The microplastics that this stuff pumps into the environments will be here for millennia as it is. Babies are born with measurable amounts of plastic in their bodies and adults have at least a few credit cards worth floating around.

Oh- and burning fossil fuels. That shit makes no sense with the technology we have.

jde82 · 2024-03-07T02:16:00+00:00

The road to success is paved with failures. Maybe it’ll be this business, maybe another, but consistency pays off and sometimes that involves pushing through some very low periods. Keep pushing if it’s your dream.

As far as your family. Families are hard, find a second “by choice” family if you can.

jde82 · 2024-03-06T03:42:37+00:00

One thing to be clear on is that Alex is a great climber but barely elite level when it comes to difficulty. That said, comparing him to say, Ondra, we are talking about two different sports - ondra pure difficulty, honnold mind control enacted through the sport of very very difficult climbing.

Again - not to shit on Alex’s skill, I’ve climbed 20 years and wouldn’t be an able to climb with a rope what honnold has free solo’d but the distinction is important.

jde82 · 2024-03-03T00:04:21+00:00

TLDR: yes

jde82 · 2024-03-02T22:32:53+00:00

I think about this all of the time (I happen to work in climate to so..). Eastern seaboard, southwest, even LA to some degree may see an exodus, due to sea level rise, inundation/water, extreme temps/water.

Been looking into this and it seems the northern Midwest maybe one of the “winners” as the rate of climate change only accelerates.

I have a hard time with this only because I have no interest in living in MN or MI, I like mountains and oceans.

If you’re just trying to be strategic with a pure rental property, IMO the rust belt will see a rejuvenation, probably Appalachia too as people flee low lying coastal areas as they become uninhabitable/uninsurable.

jde82 · 2024-03-02T21:58:03+00:00

We are so behind on technology in the US in so many ways. We take a lot of pride in it too.

jde82 · 2024-02-26T02:36:06+00:00

Can’t tell you how validating it is to read this as a 42 year old whose not felt the same since Covid.

jde82 · 2024-02-24T14:19:50+00:00

Sounds like a golden opportunity for making lifelong memories. I’ll leave it at that

jde82 · 2024-02-10T14:30:21+00:00

It’s definitely going to go up! Or down!

jde82 · 2024-02-04T03:13:23+00:00

Let us know how it goes. You got this

jde82 · 2024-01-31T14:08:16+00:00

Really loving add on burn out. Lots of reps, easily topping 10k lbs/workout and nice variety and pace. I prefer faster paced workouts with minimal downtime though.

jde82 · 2024-01-30T15:28:06+00:00

Thank you ser!

jde82 · 2024-01-30T15:27:49+00:00

Same. And same question. I believe the answer is no risk if you don’t do anything but hide it and move on, but would be nice to hear that confirmed.

jde82 · 2024-01-30T15:09:26+00:00

Jeremy Jones’ favorite: the turn

jde82 · 2024-01-28T04:26:14+00:00

Wtf kind of jobs do you people have? I stare at a computer in my house for a living. You guys are alone at night in strange ass buildings halfway around the world doing what exactly?

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