I have a strange shopping request. I'm trying to buy a headboard for my bed. Not anything fancy, not something that extends too high above my bed, just, basically, a piece of wood to attach to the head of my bed so that my pillows won't fall on the floor. (There's no good way to arrange my apartment so that the head of the bed is against a wall.) I don't want to pay too much for it. Where should I look for this? IKEA doesn't sell them, and everywhere else I've looked seems to just have ornate expensive ones.

Mac = very cute.

I finally got a pedicure. My toenails are a frightening hue of pepto pink. Yet, so happy.

Hil - goodwill.

The Repubs are complaining about the closed legislative process that gets legislation passed, while glossing over the fact that they had a closed legislative process that got almost nothing passed, and what did get passed was mostly pork and rolling back Constitutional protections.

WhatEV.

The Naked Trucker and T-Bones show on Comedy Central.

I worked on the pilot for that. It's a little different from its original format, but still pretty funny. I didn't get picked up with the series as a) pilot crews are usually replaced when a series gets picked up, mostly because of my reason b) I already had a different job at the time.

I've come across old freestanding wooden headboards in antique malls all over.

Overstock.com has a few, like this one: [link]

Hil, have you checked out Pier 1?

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They sell just headboards, or both if you like.

Oooh, that one looks nice, Jesse. It even almost goes with the rest of my furniture, style-wise. (My furniture is a mix of IKEA, hand-me-downs from various relatives, and two antique bookcases and a nightstand I inherited from my grandmother. They kind of end up working together, though -- the wooden stuff is all different styles, but all cherry or oak (or cherry-veneer) and all relatively simple and angular. The fabric stuff is all different colors, but I found a bedspread that's got stripes in just about every color that's in my couch and chairs, so it worked out.)

The Goodwill and antique shop suggestions are good, too. I think I'd rather go with somewhere that'll deliver, though, as I'm carless.

In "This Day in Technology" (from Wikipedia):

1983 - Apple Computer introduced the Apple Lisa, their first commercial personal computer with a graphical user interface and a computer mouse. It had 1 MB of RAM, and was priced at US $9,995.

Also from Wikipedia:

In 1989, Apple buried about 2,700 unsold Lisas at a landfill in Logan, Utah and got a tax write-off on the land they rented for it.