Headphones

I’ve been an $10-$20 earbud guy forever, with a couple of pairs of wired over-the-ear headphones attached to my desktop and laptop at home.

I started looking into noise-cancelling headphones, mainly for the level of noise at times at work.  At the recommendation of my co-worker, I picked this up.

Bose Quietcomfort 35 wireless noise-cancelling headphones

I tried them at Best Buy, along with a couple of Beats by Dre models, and this one blocked out ambient noise better than the others did, just as my co-worker said they did.

This is definitely the priciest audio accessory that I’ve ever bought, next to my iPod.

I’ve been wearing them right now for about 30 minutes, and I really like them.  They’re good for audio books, too.

Holiday

Nice to have a day away from the office.

Although I had to wait for the new refrigerator to arrive, after which I went to the grocery store to pick up some replacement groceries, like milk and condiments and soda.

I managed to play a baseball game (John D’Acquisto 1974 season, game 5) and catch a few more episodes of Thunderbirds are GO on Amazon streaming.

How’s your day?

Home Appliances

I stayed home from work today in order to meet a technician who could diagnose the problem with our not-getting-cold refrigerator.

Diagnosis: freon leak within the cabinet of the fridge, which is an impossible thing to repair without ripping the unit apart.  The tech said that we could refill the unit with freon, but would have to again in 4-6 months, at a cost of about $200 per refill.  He recommended that we just get a new one.

I was about to order one online from Best Buy, but Dad said that he wanted to actually look at them this time instead of just browsing a catalog online.  Which is how we bought this last one.

I ran errands (picked up meds, haircut) while Dad met up with my Uncle Pete to do some comparison shopping.

Later in the day, Dad called from Best Buy(!) and asked me to pick him up, and to check out the possible replacement.  We looked at an open box floor model, but eventually settled on one of the ones that I was looking at this morning, online.

Delivery is set for Monday afternoon, which means no fridge over the weekend.

Weekend Goals?

Did:

Played some table top baseball.

Painted Blood Bowl lizardman miniatures.

Built LEGO van/caravan set.

Replaced Keurig machine with larger capacity Keurig machine.

Didn’t:

Work on Lunchtime D&D campaign.

Do a dry run of a podcast, unless you count the 1-hour phone conversation that I had with my mystery co-host.

Start watching The Man in the High Castle, Season 2.

Repost: Friday Randomness

This is the longest I’ve gone without a calendar hanging up in my office, or at home. That’s what I get for ordering them online, instead of picking them up from the calendar shop at the mall.

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Still trying to figure out what to do with the microphones.

Yes, plural.

Podcasting is the leading choice, I just have to figure out what the content will be. It would probably be something monthly, as I don’t think I’d have time to do a weekly thing.

Or I can just use them to talk to people online.

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At lunch I thought about how often and for whom I would post another of those “The 50s” entries like the one from yesterday. First of I want to say that you shouldn’t feel offended/insulted if I don’t have enough material to write something on your 50th. I may simply had forgotten, or hadn’t had time to come up with something interesting. That’s on me, not you.

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Vlogging.

Never did keep up with that. I should, in case I never get the podcast thing off the ground.

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Not sure why I’m so jazzed about wanting to play role-playing games again, as in pencil-and-paper, face-to-face, not online.

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6 days into the new year, and no table top sports games played. I need to fix that. Soon. Tonight.

I also need to get off my butt and start up the lunchtime D&D campaign again. It’s ONLY been a YEAR since I was supposed to come up with something. Ah well.

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And then there’s my camera and photography. I bought a new lens to experiment with static close up shots of stuff, and I haven’t really done anything in regards to that.

Gotta change that.

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For the first time in years, neither football team that I follow are in the playoffs.

My weekends are free and clear. Though I’ll probably end up watching the Super Bowl.

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Pizza and cupcakes. Those are my only requirements so far for my birthday.