Occasional Weeknote #35

Sorry if you received a copy of the previous Weeknotes a second time by email. That issue is fixed. I turned 51 this week. It was an unremarkable flipping of the calendar other than it was near 90 degrees in mid-October. It’s surreal when it gets this warm in the autumn because it feels like summer but no birds are out doing their thing, so there’s this kind of eerie silence broken only by ever-present crickets. Unseasonably warm weather in October but no summer birds I treated myself to a new pair of desktop speakers to accompany me during the workday. I had been using a perfectly fine single Bluetooth speaker (Tribit Stormbox) but wanted something with a little more life and separation. I settled on the new Creative XF1 because they’re small, were on a good sale ($117 shipped, down from $180), and reportedly had a good overall sound to them with nice input/output flexibility (USB/aux/Bluetooth 6.0 in, sub out option). I’m happy with them so fair. Haven’t paired them with a subwoofer…