Feels a bit more like home
Amazing what a difference a stereo system can make to a home.
I’ve been sans TV, radio, stereo, net access, and home computer (relying on laptop-chan) since I moved. That’s nearly three months of supremely low-tech living, pretty much by choice as I don’t ever watch TV (except when Hekiru is on), don’t listen to the radio (except for Hekiru’s shows), and figured that having net access would just prevent me from sleeping.
I think I’m right on all counts, but now I’m starting to realize that, even spending 18 hours a day at work, it’s not much stress relief to just stumble back home and sleep. In fact, even if it cuts out about a half hour’s worth of zzz time, I’m probably a happier camper if I browsed through 5 pages of the latest Economist before turning off the lights.
Unfortunately, that doesn’t quite hit it either. And with nothing much waiting for me at home, I think I just hang at the office and work more, which may or may not make me more productive, in the long run…
After installing my brand new Denon system (I’ve decided Onkyo is overpriced, overfeatured and underperforming), I tried out the radio and suddenly I was so much more relaxed, just laying back at 2:30am fresh from a shower, after a pretty grueling week revising and revising and angsting over this big marketing campaign presentation. Yes, how strange in this world of broadband digital communication and media, to think that radio still holds a magic.
To celebrate, I scrounged most of (currently meager) Hekiru possessions into a little worship corner for a memorial shot. Cool, non?
