Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Memory Foam

Place: Old Chicago
Lunch: "Rush Street" Pizza bar, Caesar salad, Pepsi

This pizza bar thing is pretty cool. They have about a half dozen pizzas out, you get a salad made and served just like the ones with a regular dinner, and then they brought me a warm cookie at the end. All for under $10.

Sweet.

I bought a new mattress pad for my bed this weekend...a memory foam pad that Costco sells. It's actually two-sided...one side microfiber and one side memory foam...but you get the idea.

So I get it home and pull it out of the box. Turns out there's some assembly required. The microfiber and the memory foam part are packed separately. You unroll the memory foam, lay it out on the microfiber, wrap with the attached cover, then zip the whole thing up.

But here's the fun part...The memory foam part is vacuum-packed in one of those airtight sealed bags. You know those storage bag kits they sell where you put the stuff in, suck the air out with a vacuum, and have a bag a fraction of the size to store?

They vacuum-sealed memory foam.

Memory foam.

It was nearly impossible to roll out, and when I did, it looked like a fraction of the size of the bed. It's supposed to be like four inches thick, but it looked more like one.

Two days later, it's still not completely normal.