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.
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.
I’ve used indiboi as my username on just about every forum I’m a member of, makes sense, right?
Well, I’ve been struggling with the whole “indiboi” thing the closer I get to being thirty. For a good while it’s just been ironic, but once I hit thirty I think it’d be more like just sad.
I’ve been slowly working my way over to using indigomeridian.com for this site, but I still need to actually move it. It’s one of those more complicated than it seems sorts of things for certain.
I also underestimated just how much of a pain it would be to switch my usernames everywhere to “imeridian” instead of the old “indiboi” name. Very few forums allow a user to actually change his username, so I’ve had to inconvenience just about every admin out there, unfortunately.
Someday I’ll have it all taken care of, I suppose.
Well, after days of trying to remove my checking account, having to cancel my bank & Paypal debit cards, both of the fraudulent authorizations have expired. Now that the cards have been deactivated there is no way for the transactions to be processed again. It looks like I’m finally in the clear, without having to close my checking account… thankfully.