[Leica] If my leica were a memory foam mattress, which memory foam mattress would it be?

[photo.forrest at earthlink.net (Philip Forrest)]

I carried around 43lbs of gear AND I got my back injured in Fallujah,
but still do you know what the retired Marine at the VA who was doing
the yelling while I was in physical therapy said?
EXERCISE, SAILOR!

That's it.  That's all one can do.  There's a recent statistic out
there that people who earn significantly more than those doing physical
labor who earn less, have more back problems.  Everything comes from
your back.  Everything is attached to it in some way.  By strengthening
it, you enable your body to more efficiently carry the loads which you
ask it to.  All a new mattress is going to do is help you to get lazier
and poorer.

PhilFo



On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 14:44:19 -0400
"Kyle Cassidy" <kcassidy@asc.upenn.edu> wrote:

> Two decades of carrying 20+lbs of camera gear and gin around in a
> giant domke have done a number on my poor back. Having been
> brainwashed by National Public Radio for all these years advising me
> during the groggy hours of the morning that for sleep comfort, I need
> a Tempurpedic bed from the Healthy Back Store, I went to their
> website and found that to asuaged by camera-related injury would cost
> about $2200, which is cheaper than an M8, but more expensive than a
> D300. I noticed that there are knockoffs ranging from $500 to $1400
> -- the $500 models have no free return and the mid-priced model has a
> 365 day trial. (you might just say "just try them out and if you
> don't like it, send it back, you idiot, stop bothering us with this
> nonsense" -- but I'd rather avoid all the repackaging and whatnots.)
> I'm assuming that since y'alls also carry 20+ lbs of stuff around
> (except for you lazy Europers who only have to carry 10 kilograms) on
> one shoulder for the past 20 years y'all also have backs that are
> made out of oreo cookies and millet (I'm not sure what that means,
> but it sounds funny) and some of you have discovered the magic bed
> that makes the pain go away. Percoset probably also makes the pain go
> away, but I don't want to start looking like one of those old men at
> the diner setting out 90 pills before his chipped beef arrives.
> 
> Thanks for your advice.
> 
>  
> kyle
> 
> 
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