earbuds

holy empty outer ears batman

I left my earbuds at home

it started so innocently, last night I put them in to listen to Critical Role, so I didn't keep my wife and kids awake.

Then I probably tossed them somewhere as I sleepily crawled into bed afterwards.

Then i woke up, made sure the kids got on their bus, and got on mine. I also got dressed somewhere in there.

Now I'm at work, and I was scanning through twitter, and there is Aubrey Webber of the doubleclicks playing 'History has its eyes on you' from Hamilton, on the cello.

and I haven't my earbuds.

Can I still listen to this one? yes, I can. Brad is next to me and he won't care - he'll glance over to see what it is and all will be well.

But I have hours of work to do in the culture hood today. My ears will be naked, unsoothed by the dulcet tones of the 'imaginary worlds' podcast, or The Adventure Zone, or Unattended Consequences, or the Hamilton soundtrack, or Postmodern Jukebox. All the things, they will not be in my ears.

I thought being sleepy from staying up late would be the problem today. The Critical Role Hangover. but I didn't plan on missing earbuds.

In other news, I started looking at the ACX website, the audiobook creation exchange. This began because I started reading Odd and the Frost Giants with Mree's kids earlier this week. I remembered how fun it is to read, and they really enjoyed it, and I wondered - what would it take to make a little money recording audiobooks? Answer is basically it would take a recording studio setup. That may or may not stop me.