I don’t know why it is, but every year I seem to forget that I’m allergic to Hyacinths. I go outside, cut at least one, bring it inside, and within about an hour I’m a horrible allergy mess. If I’m not sneezing I want to scratch out my eyes, oh well. Maybe I learned my lesson this year, guess we’ll find out next year, eh?
I just received my new set of Sennheiser HD485 headphones. I’m very impressed. It doesn’t sound like I’m wearing headphones at all. I suppose that’s the way it is meant to be, but it’s still a big change for someone accustomed to iPod earbuds and the like.
I’ve been using my Icemat headset previously, which is a separate headphone and speaker arrangement versus the usual integrated. They sound rather good, but they always made my head feel like it was in a vise and they sort of have the construction quality of a house of cards. I’ve already broken them once by simply putting them on, so I always wonder when it’ll happen again.
The metallic green of the Sennheisers is also nice in that sort of retro sort of way. I particularly like, of all things, the holder that came in the package. I can now hang the headphones from the shelf, instead of them taking up precious horizontal real estate.
It’s this Friday, anyone that wants to watch it on my 42″ in HD just needs to let me know. I’ll save it on the DVR for Saturday viewing if anyone can’t quite make the 10pm lateness of the first run episodes. Let me know about that too, obviously. It could be a weekly thing even, heh.
I haven’t used my old HP computer in almost a year, so it has pretty old Linux software. I figured it wouldn’t be much of a problem to do an update, it’s running Gentoo afterall. Well, 500 packages later, and it still isn’t ready. I really should just cut my losses now and install from scratch. So, let this be a word of warning, if you’ve let it go for a year, just forget about getting it back up to date without serious trouble.