The Sound of Silence

Bought myself a set of Sony noise cancelling ear buds (MD-NC22B) and I am very happy so far. Seem to do a great job on both trains and buses.

While it is still possible to hear people and the hum of the train etc if you try, when you pump something through them all the regular din becomes muffled and just seems to fade to the background. Can be kinda eerie when the sound stops cause you can hear your own breathing, like you are scuba diving.

Movies have always been problematic from a volume point of view on my Ipod. I would have the volume maxed out with the standard Ipod ear phones and I'd find myself holding them tightly in my ears to try and hear the dialogue. Not good.

But now it's all good...quite crisp, clear and loud enough with volume to spare. Sound separation and isolated effects are heaps better than the Ipod phones.

Mega comfortable too...I've always struggled with normal ear phones but the soft silicone buds just seem made for my ears.

You can spend a lot more for Bose etc but that isn't something I could justify. $149 is enough of a chunk of change for me for ear buds but at least I'm happy with them.

Birthday Fool's Day

It's my birthday today and while I still went to work I had an excellent day.

I got some nice presents like a leaf blower/mulcher and a West Ham polo & tshirt, but perhaps the best was a book that Ben gave me called My Dad where each page has a fold up flap revealing something that your Dad does for you. Then at the end Carole had helped him paste in actual photos of me doing those exact things..stuff like carrying him round on my shoulders or making sandcastles with him.

After he gave it to me he then climbed up into the chair with me and we read it together.

Left me feeling happy all day.