So, taking advantage of a certain someone’s nesting instincts — and the pre-move desire to toss out old crap — we got rid of a rather tattered quilt we’ve been sleeping under since before we were married and some sheets from a “discount superstore” that mostly cause me to break out and have anything but a pleasant night of sleep.

Jenn, in bargain-hunting mode, asked me what my dream sheets and quilt would be. I explained about high thread count and dragged her to Bed, Bath & Beyond to feel the difference between low thread count and high thread count sheets. (”What was the thread count of our old sheets?” “They didn’t say, which tells you how good they must have been.”)

So off she goes, virtually, to Amazon, where she finds a $300 quilt marked down to $70 (it may have been even cheaper when she bought it) and a 600-thread count sheet set that I’m totally unable to find on Amazon now, but which was marked down from more than $100 to under $60.

Years ago, I figured out that, if you’re going to spend money on shoes, they might as well be good ones that won’t wear out on the way out of the store and will actually be comfortable. Now I’m figuring out the same thing about bed linens. It’s like staying in a fancy hotel at home. Combined with the new mattress set we got last year, it’s awfully hard to get out of bed in the morning now.

If you’re in the market for new bed linens, look around for marked-down high-end stuff after Christmas. Totally worth it.

So, yeah, I haven’t been posting much here. We’ve been working on the new HesperiaStar.com, and with one or two remaining major changes, the end result should be pretty good. Expect the new site either early next week or the week after, depending on when the changes are made.

It’s not entirely the site I’d create, if I was building one from scratch, but this is part of a company-wide rollout of a standardized site design (and advertising pipeline), so there are certain elements of it that are going to be immutable by us out here in the field.

But that’s OK.

I forget who said “you have to go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you want,” but I’m pretty sure that war they went to turned out A-OK.