squeaky raze in the beginning i could do ten crunches. maybe twelve on a good day. the idea was to mitigate some nagging lower back pain. it probably didn't help that i was walking around with a hundred-pound weight strapped to my stomach. i guess i moved from the floor to my bed pretty early on because the mattress was kinder to my body than the carpet. even after my back stopped being a bastard, i found i liked it up there. sometimes i have to stop and reposition the soft pallet i sleep on when my momentum drags it too far from home. i'm used to that by now. i was coming up on my six hundredth rep last night when the frame started squeaking in a funny way. it sounded like it was laughing. with me or at me, i couldn't be sure. 231102 what's it to you? who go blather from