'eh? What did you say?

I estimate I have about 10% of my hearing in the left ear - this is a very unscientific estimate, because 1) I'm not really ruling out the right ear completely, and 2) I'm taking a wild guess.

I do know that I can't use the left earpiece for listening to music - sure, I can hear some, but it swirls and sounds out of phase. I'm just using the right, and I did the best to compensate with the computer. Unfortunately, that just involves moving the balance to the right, which isn't a true balance, in that it drops the left channel volume and maxes the right, but it doesn't do anything about arranging a visit to the right channel by the left channel signal. Anyway you slice it, it's still half a stereoscopic signal, and not a monaural whole.

Pieces of Me: Where the many-bridged Charles flows drowsily

"For know you, that your gold and marble city of wonder is only the sum of what you have seen and loved in youth."

H.P. Lovecraft - The Dreamquest of Unknown Kadath

Funny, sometimes, how much importance is placed on destinations - places to go, places to be; things to see, things to do. Funny, really, how sometimes the journey itself is what proves memorable so many years later, the destination half-remembered at best, lost beyond even the trivial realm, where all the random useless facts live out their random useless lives.

( The destination and the journey... )

But everyone remembered that it was my dad that brought us in safely.

"It is the glory of Boston's hillside roofs and western windows aflame with sunset, of the flower-fragrant Common and the great dome on the hill and the tangle of gables and chimneys in the violet valley where the many-bridged Charles flows drowsily."

H.P. Lovecraft - The Dreamquest of Unknown Kadath