January 4, 2014

I am really looking forward to going back to work on Monday so I will have something new to write about. For at least the first couple of days. Two weeks off is far too long when nothing productive is being done.

A new pair of headphones arrived in the mail today. I am back in the headphone game and I decided to expedite the process by ordering three different pairs. The first to show up was the Siberia V2 by SteelSeries. My first impressions could be better. The padding isn't quite thick enough so my left ear is squished a bit, just like the last headphones I tried. Damn my left ear. I will blame my glasses because they feel fine when I take my glasses off. But I can also only see about a foot without my glasses and my monitors are about four feet away. So the glasses stay. Also with the new headphones, I have to go in and manually switch the sound from my speakers to the headphones when I want to switch between the two. That gets tedious. And lastly, they get hot pretty quickly. I think part of that is the left ear being crushed thing. The crushing and the heat make the headphones very noticeable on my head. Soundwise, I am liking them. I liked the Audio Technica pair better in terms of sound but these aren't bad. But both suffer from not being terribly comfortable. The Audio Technica pair got sent back and the SteelSeries will more than likely go the same way. The next pair should be here on Monday, hopefully, and the third may show up sometime later in the week or the week after. All I ask for are ear cups with enough padding that my left ear doesn't get crushed against the speaker. And decent sound quality. Not too much to ask for when it comes to headphones.

It started snowing again today and I got to drive to work with about an inch on the ground and more coming down. By the time I got off work I had the pleasure of clearing off two or three inches of snow from my car. Such a delight. Thankfully there wasn't ice underneath it so it was pretty much just brushing the snow off. It was a lot better than the last snow, both in terms of clearing it off my car and driving through it. As for work itself, I did the same thing I did last night. Reading books with a little bit of Animal Crossing mixed in for good measure.

When I got home I had a nice phone conversation with my friend and then played a round of Battlefield 4. I played a bit earlier in the day and got completely stomped on. At the moment my K/D is 0.36. Ouch. Thankfully the Battlefield franchise is more about playing the objective (PTFO) than getting a high K/D. That doesn't really excuse a 0.36 K/D but whatever. The round I played tonight was actually pretty decent. Not really when you look at my score but I wreaked some havoc and did a good job of defending the objectives.

Tomorrow is the last day of the too long two week winter break. And it will be just as unproductive as the rest of break. I thought about going out and running some errands but then it started snowing today. So there is that.