Dept. of Not-White Noise

[kaffy_r]

Overly Loud Music in Ear Buds: Threat or Menace?*

It's been a minute since I last posted. Not, like, a real long minute, but a metaphorical minute nonetheless. For the last few days, it's been dank and grey here in Chicago, and the stress levels at Casa kaffy_rbob continue to be somewhere between Defcon 3 and 2, for all the reasons previously recited at tedious length. 

When that happens, or continues happening, my go-to stress reliever, the one that effectively cuts my ability to get things done, but possibly saves a sliver of my sanity, is to put my ear buds in, and blast SKZ or Ateez at skull-rattlingly unhealthy levels right into my brain. It's a good thing that's actually a very bad thing, but I don't really care. If my hearing wasn't damaged by standing on a stage between very loud amplifiers, then my rock and roll card needs to be revoked. 

But my stress level is now closer to Defcon 3, which is a bit of a relief. We finally realized that the idea of trying to balance Bob's permanent residence application at the same time as getting the house ready to sell and finding someplace to live in N. S., and getting decent movers who understand getting things across the border was stupid. 

We're going to tell the movers who keep bothering us (admittedly because we contacted them first) and our very patient real estate agent that everything will be put on hold until the application is completed, in, and Bob gets accepted for permanent residence. I'd originally fought the idea, thinking that we could actually handle everything at once. I'm very glad that Bob convinced me otherwise. 

So perhaps I won't have to turn my ear buds up to 11 for the next couple of days. 



* and if you get that reference, congratulations - you've joined the "older than dirt, and still hipper than the room" club.

Comments

[sideways]

I don't know if I'm older than dirt, it just reads to me as a Spider-Man reference, haha.

[kaffy_r]

I haven't heard the Spider-Man reference; my reference comes from a 1970s-era National Lampoon Magazine piece parodying anti-drug movies, posters, etc. from the 1930s and 1940s.

You're probably still hipper than the room, though!

[sideways]

Ahh! I wouldn't be surprised if they were similarly pulling a parody, then. (The good old Daily Bugle headline titles: "SPIDER-MAN - THREAT OR MENACE?")

[kaffy_r]

The good old Daily Bugle headline titles: "SPIDER-MAN - THREAT OR MENACE?"

*snort*

My bet, based on what I think is the timeline, is someone in the Marvel bullpen, or maybe a bunch of someones, knew the NatLamp issue, and decided to slip that into J. Jonah Jameson's headline.

[maruad]

Balancing paperwork and logistics is an art and a science. I am not surprised at the stress levels.

[kaffy_r]

Thanks; I'm glad it finally dawned on me that Bob was right about tackling one thing at a time.

[bibliofile]

> Bob was right about tackling one thing at a time.

Yay Bob!

(I might not even have thought of it.)

[kaffy_r]

He's pretty cool, n'est ce pas? (Or in our house, neh?)