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fun with balance balls
Adam Englebright•9 July 2015•1 min read
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Brightlocal, the company with whom we share an office, are very keen on balance balls. This has now spread to us, with Juan and Dara both abandoning their chairs for them (Mark and I both tried and decided against). Balance balls, though, are by nature quite bouncy. This leads to a lot of... the kind of thing in the vine above.
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