Look, my iPhone, the beloved Sonic Screwdriver, is always at my side, my all purpose Swiss Army Knife solution to many of my problems, well, mostly communication & entertainment based ones.
Which means I use my headphones a lot. Not just a way to listen, a blessed way to shut our over noisy, too stimulating world OUT. (Try it in a shopping centre, ohhh, the release, the relief – somehow, it makes the visual over stimulation bearable).
So noise cancelling headphones matter to me. I have a pair that cost me over $40, but oh, even if just used as ear plugs, the blessed silence.
No, I don’t know the brand off the top of my head, it’s 6am and I am comfy in bed, a rare treat. I will look at some point if there is interest. They are black is all I have atm, and the microphone is a sadly lacking in quality afterthought…
Oh dear, rambled off again, where was I headed? Oh yes, oddly enough, and this is the first you knew of it, I was thinking about the storing of headphones.
Or, to be more precise, the blasted inevitable tangling, and my ongoing quest* to find a solution. One that suits my inclination and general lack of time requirement to just fling them in to my bag of holding.
Ok, that restriction is proving the nirvana I am unlikely to attain. However, simple, low cost, relatively quick for time poor (excuse), impatient (reality) usage remains a bit of a quest. Not a huge one, as I am so terribly occupied with being time poor.
Nonetheless, I sort of persist, as much as any of my raised by flickering images generation manages. To that end, the current trial is :
“Emulate my Dad’s frustration with Xmas lights solution on a sort of homage to his frustrated grumblings”
Ok, kind of wordy, but it sheds a light (get it?? Look, I said it was early:( ) on the thinking. Dad used a cardboard roll insert from baking paper to roll the lights.
Now, lugging a roll that size will be impractical, (not impossible, I DO have a bag of holding after all), so I am proposing to use an empty cotton reel, with lipped edges that flare slightly, to see how that goes. I have thought of a few impracticalities already, but I feel I owe it to the spirit of exploration to attempt it.
Reporting back in a later post:)
* I know it isn’t much of a quest, but you take what you can;)
I have a baby computer mouse which has a spring loaded reel for the cord. It works similar to a tape measure which stays out while you are measuring and then a flick of the switch causes it to spring back into its casing without a tangle; much like the retractable vacuum cleaner cords.
I wonder how we get our hands on something like that to which we can fetter the headphone cable.