Waterbone Tibet 04/10/23
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I don't generally listen to music while I'm working. Today, I was
feeling a little distracted by external sounds, and decided to take
control of my aural inputs. My wired headset is a little short for my
taste, with my desktop sitting on the floor under my desk, and it
picks up RF from the ham radios in here. My desktop doesn't have
Bluetooth... so, I copied a few (3gigs worth is a few these days!)
songs over to my phone to listen to on some wireless earbuds.
Ok, first, being a middle-aged man, I really needed to trim some ear
hair for those earbuds to work right. Guess that tells you how much I
use them! Maybe it's TMI, but it was part of the experience. As I
trimmed, the ear attachment on the electric beard trimmer started to
get warm from friction, and I was reminded of the time those Romanian
hair cutters offered to burn my ear hair out with a lighter, and I
accepted. I'm pretty sure I wrote about that on gopher. It wasn't a
pleasant experience. Hadn't thought of that in a while, that was
interesting.
Anyway, you'll be relieved to know that my ears are nice and trim now.
Sorry for dragging you through that, but thanks for sticking around.
So, the earbuds are doing great right now. I decided to listen to an
album from 1998, Waterbone Tibet. It's got a great 90's global vibe,
and I find it meditative. The tracks are longer than average, most
between 5 and almost 7 minutes. The longer tracks are less distracting
for me somehow. The first track that loads on my phone is "A Child's
Prayer", which is interesting. "Waterdance" is playing currently.
The sound of the mechanical keyboard breaks through both the music and
the reasonable seal on the earbuds. It's piercing, apparently. Maybe
other people can hear it around the house? I should ask.
Of course, between getting music all setup, and writing this post, I
haven't done any work since I decided that I needed music to help me
with the distractions.... maybe the distractions are internal.