For my birthday on Sunday, Julie gave me an Aeron chair.

This means I'm only about three or four years behind on having a cool chair for my technology-savvy rump to occupy. All those months I was working from home, sitting in my desk chair for hours on end. Now that I'm hardly ever home using my own computer, I have a smoove chair.

Her firm had really lousy office chairs, but recently got Aerons. I think she likes hers a lot and decided that the $75 Office Depot chair that I'd been using (and destroying) was about done for. I have to agree; it was starting to hurt to sit in it.

I think an Aeron chair is a good gift. They're awfully comfortable, but though I thought about it and looked at one in the store during my work-at-home period, I would never buy one for myself. "I don't deserve such finery," I'd say to myself.

The only problem I have now is that my desk is too low at the optimum Aeron setting. Maybe I need a new desk now.

Not that I deserve such finery.