mdlbear | Further adventures in home computing: Loot (Reply)

My order, of three replacement UPS batteries, arrived from APC this morning. One is for the BackUps 500 I've been having trouble with in the office. The other two went into the two BackUps Pro 650's that I salvaged from the discard pile at work. I may do a little shuffling-around.

This afternoon, after a successful demo (and a fight with balky presentation software that inadvertantly illustrated a talking-point about the superior simplicity of paper as a document representation), I went to the dentist to get my new crown installed. That, of course, puts me across the street from Guitar Showcase, and the Sennheiser HD280Pro headphones I'd spotted two weeks before after the first appointment for the crown. They advertise 32dB noise isolation, and are significantly more comfortable than the Vic Firth 'phones I bought about a month ago -- they have nice wide, deep cuffs, and nothing presses on my ears. Not horribly expensive, either. I may take them in to work; my office there is pretty noisy, and they're comfortable enough to wear for long periods.