When the mainframe computer world collapsed at the onset of Y2K (thanks to media hype and BS), I found myself swimming furiously in a different pool - PC support. My hours expanded dramatically while my income contracted painfully - competition increased furiously, relentlessly. Blah, blah, blah. Anyway, the cost of healthcare (when you're self employed, you get a good view of how much benefits are worth) nearly doubled in one year and continued skyward. Various circumstances led me to seek employment, and I even changed fields somewhat. Unfortunately, the small company for which I work doesn't provide health care (as many small businesses simply can't (it's not really their responsibility either, but that's a different discussion)). Ergo, my wife needed a job - one that included a health care package we could afford.
Since she made her debut in the cult of the time clock punchers, she's been a little more guarded about her sleep. She told me that she couldn't work unless she could sleep and she was finding sleep increasingly difficult with my incessant snoring. Hence, I was booted from the bed, but our couch is nowhere to sleep - each seat is 'sculpted'. So began the buying of inflatable mattresses for the living room floor. Some were better than others – some were more comfortable and some lasted longer. Sleeping in a public area wasn’t easy, especially with a son who kept late hours.
As happens in life, things changed again. My father died from a surgical complication. My son moved out so we’d have a place for my mother – he had wanted to move for quite a while; he was just enjoying the absence of expenses. We bought the house next door and moved my mother and my father in law into it. Now I have a bedroom of my very own, and, although it’s significantly smaller than the bedroom from which I was booted, I moved my bedroom audio system into it. That system has monkey-coffin speakers, but it does include a pair of Stax Lambdas.
I went sparse on the furnishings and restricted the size of the bed to a full. I have a nice chair and I can enjoy that audio system near-field – works well. Since they were my walls, I painted them brown and mounted some media shelves – three (on two walls). They aren’t fancy, but they are all hardwood and built with serious strength in mind – I could climb the things. If I remember correctly, ‘Enchantment1.6s’ has her gunned 1.6s in a bedroom – a really nice system too.
Enjoy your new room.
PS I sat on my ass and typed this when I have work I should be doing. My XO is complete (except that it’s on a temporary base – the plywood will give way to hardwood if I decide to keep it (the XO). I just can’t find the damn wire for the speakers – I ordered ten times what I needed for my first adventure in modding these MMGs (I knew it was going to be a progression). It’s here somewhere, but it isn’t where I thought it was. Of course, I also have the projects in the kitchen eating into my days. Oh well, I’ll find that wire and then configure my MMGs for biamping sans speaker-level XO. I should have something to say by this time tomorrow, but what will that something be?
"Jazz is not dead - it just smells funny" FZ
