It doesn't do much for tinnitus, but...
Mar. 15th, 2004 09:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpIn anticipation of various plane rides, I had long given some serious thought to getting a pair of Bose noise-cancelling headphones (which can also be used to listen to audio, with ambient noise suppressed), but the $300 price tag was a little too rich for my blood.
Instead, a few weeks ago, I decided to cash in a whole lotta American Express reward points in exchange for one of these headphones. The package arrived today (way ahead of the 6-8 weeks the Amex site warned me it might take).
I haven't done too much with the unit except give it a whirl in front of my computers (whereupon the fan racket ebbed noticeably). I think I might go upstairs shortly and see about listening to some music.
* * * Workwise, I am currently on track with the stack of so-called "Hazard Reports" that must be reworked to incorporate changes from the Russian versions of the reports into the English versions. The kicker here is that in addition to incorporating the changes marked in revision mode, I've been charged with the task of eyeballing the rest of the text to make sure no non-revision-mode changes have crept in (and to resolve differences, natch).
Three down; nine to go.
* * * We here in Pagosa Springs are in an unusual situation, address-wise. The USPS does not deliver to street addresses out here, which doesn't cut much ice with various entities who insist on getting your street address (instead of, say, a Post Office box, which the USPS does deliver to), and who then can't understand why the mail they send to us never arrives.
The latest casualty on this front was mail from our new mortgage company, which never arrived despite our having asked them to use our POB as our mailing address.
I am toying with the idea of having a lawyer draw up a document that, in effect, would serve notice on such dolts that should they insist on using our street address as a mailing address instead of our POB, that they will relieve us from any penalties or other bad things they'd normally do to us if we don't do the things they ask us to do in said communications, because they're using the wrong bloody address!
I'm sure, however, that my idea will fly as well as a gilded brick.
* * * Ah, but it's been a glorious day! I'm looking forward to tomorrow already!
More to the point, I'm looking forward to getting away from this computer. Ciao.
Cheers...
Instead, a few weeks ago, I decided to cash in a whole lotta American Express reward points in exchange for one of these headphones. The package arrived today (way ahead of the 6-8 weeks the Amex site warned me it might take).
I haven't done too much with the unit except give it a whirl in front of my computers (whereupon the fan racket ebbed noticeably). I think I might go upstairs shortly and see about listening to some music.
Three down; nine to go.
The latest casualty on this front was mail from our new mortgage company, which never arrived despite our having asked them to use our POB as our mailing address.
I am toying with the idea of having a lawyer draw up a document that, in effect, would serve notice on such dolts that should they insist on using our street address as a mailing address instead of our POB, that they will relieve us from any penalties or other bad things they'd normally do to us if we don't do the things they ask us to do in said communications, because they're using the wrong bloody address!
I'm sure, however, that my idea will fly as well as a gilded brick.
More to the point, I'm looking forward to getting away from this computer. Ciao.
Cheers...
