Regular Life

(Note: The final chapter of “Apartment Life Returns” is now available. Thanks for reading. Enjoy. If you’d like to read it all at once starting now, then go here.)

Some engineers have all the fun. (figure out how it’s supposed to look before watching the video)
Okay, so I don’t know that it took an engineer to [...]

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Binaural Tendencies
Almost a year ago, I mentioned binaural recordings in a post called “You Really Orta Hear This.” This time, feast your ears on a little slice of our lives. If you wear headphones or earbuds for this, you might swear we’re in [...]

This is my feeble attempt to make my picture match the topic of my post. The young lady who wrote this had finally decided we were meant to date, not just be friends, on the same night I had given up on her. What was my gift to her? A mix tape. Her gift confirmed [...]

(For today, you may preview and/or download “Noel Sing We” from my Free Christmas Song Each Day page)
Wednesday morning, we were out of milk, and with the holiday eating season already in full swing, my resistance was low. I stopped at McDonald’s on the way into work.
I happened to be testing my recorder’s ability to [...]

(Two songs, “Gaudete” and “The Holly and the Ivy,” are available on my Free Christmas Song Each Day page)
Wednesday last week, when our van was in the shop, Shannon and Ben brought me into work. For his part, the boy spent the 25-minute commute munching on his Organic Mini-Wheats and sucking milk from a sippy [...]

Ben’s smile’s a little goofy here because he was saying, “Puppy!”
First and foremost… Happy Birthday to me Thursday the 16th. I’m turning the big 36. That’s more than midway through my 30’s, so I guess I’m almost 40. Hmmm… doesn’t really bother me. I’ll let you know when I start having mysterious aches and pains. [...]

On lunch hours at work I’m reading The Closing of the American Mind, which is pretty good so far, but reads a lot like a thesis. I just hole up in one corner of our break room, with either my canned (and fully cooked) tuna and crackers, or my smoked turkey with provolone sandwich, my [...]

Eye Surgery Update
Apparently my wife is a member of an elite group. Only five percent get in, but not by any effort of their own. In fact, inclusion is thrust upon them, with no fair warning.
Shannon’s vision is still so poor that she can’t read road signs in time to make the turn she needs, [...]

Have you ever heard a binaural recording?
If you’ve never heard one, then you are in for a treat. Put on headphones (or earbuds), and go to quiet american’s field recordings page. Highlights include Beach Rain, Children, and Frogs. Remember, do not use speakers. For best effect, close your eyes. You might end up snapping them [...]

I’m about to give birth. I think I’ll name him Rocky. Sandy? Or there’s the more obvious yet less mainstream Stone.
I’m talking kidney Stone here. Never had one before now. I have feared them for the past year, since one co-worker had a bad bout with them and another had a small attack. I certainly [...]