sweet dreams

For my last army service, I was ordered to Eschenbach SG near Rapperswil to help in an arsenal. It’s actually a long story, how it came to that. Compared to a regular service, it was very much relaxed. I could go home every night, which is quite nice, especially if you have a young family. So, every morning when I walked from the train station to the arsenal, I passed a carpenter which had a gorgeous beam bed on display. The beams had crack, and looked really old, but perfectly restored. It didn’t have a price tag, so I assumed it was expensive. And I was not in need of a new bed anyway, so I just remembered it, for when I would need one. That was three and a half years ago.

Our bed recently broke. No, it’s not because I grew so fat. People say, that the mattress and the slatted frame should be replaced after ten years. So it was almost in time. And now I remembered the bed frame from Eschenbach. They did not respond to my eMail, so I had a look around other stores and websites. I found out that these beam beds with cracks are trendy, and that they are mostly made of swamp oak. Finally I found what I was looking for at Möbel Riesen in Brunnen.

They didn’t accept BitCoin directly, so I had to convert the funds first. At the time, the excange rate on MtGox was a steady ten percent higher than with other exchanges. This was quite tempting, even though most people suspected liquidity problems behind the long delays since last summer. So I split the risk, and traded half through BitStamp, and the other half through mtgox. BitStamp was quick and reliable as always, while I still wait for the money from MtGox. Meanwhile MtGox filed for bankruptcy, and I might have to write that money off.

The bed frame arrived earlier than expected, while we had some trouble getting the mattresses and slatted frames in time. So we had to sleep in a funny arrangement for a few days. But now finally, everything is in place. The beams are actually quite heavy, adding up to about 250kg.

As I work in the development of the PointLine CAD, naturally, I was interested in a CAD drawing for the bed frame. The guy from Sprenger Möbel was very friendly, and sent me a jpg, telling me there are no CAD files, as he draws everything by hand.