I would buy a house just so I could have an Instant Kitchen.
I think kitchens are the most exciting thing about home ownership, and what I’m most drawn to when passing by for-sale postings outside realty offices. Unfortunately with condo prices starting around $500-600k in San Francisco, I’m a wee bit short of the $100-120k I’d need for a 20% down payment. Not to mention the monthly payments on the remaining $400-480k mortgage. Ouch. That’d be one costly kitchen.
Travel the world, build a kitchen, travel the world, build a kitchen…
First of all, welcome to White Noise Lounge. A week ago MC Soleil and I had this wacky idea to broadcast white noise over the internet. So we decided to start an audio blog of the ambient sounds in our environment and on our travels. Not strictly white noise, but in the same vein. This is our first post.
This afternoon I did the dishes. Washed by hand because we don’t have a dishwasher, and because I actually enjoy washing the dishes by hand. Two people don’t make that many dishes, but there are always a lot of glasses to wash. We mostly drink water, and since they all look the same, we’re constantly forgetting whose glass is whose.
I’m usually awake a little bit later than Stephanie (case in point), time I spend reading online, blogging, winding down, etc. This is all possible (in bed and in the dark) thanks to the perfectly minimal illumination of a single LED at the top of my ThinkPad screen, which faintly illuminates the keyboard.
As nice as that me-time is, if I don’t come to the computer with a specific desire to do something, I often get stuck in this endless cycle of blog comment checking, gmail checking, and bloglines checking. It’s like the part of my brain responsible for inspiration just shuts off. Which probably says more about the insomnia-inducing effects of illuminated screens than anything else.
It’s when I’m not on the computer that I tend to come up with things I want to do when I am. I might be watching an engrossing movie. Talking with friends. Reading books. Especially reading books. There’s something that does to my mind that seems to bring all sorts of deeper thoughts and ideas to the surface—usually to the point where I have to put the book down because I’m not actually reading any more.
The problem is that I don’t have much good time to read (books). The best time is when it’s dark. Which is the reason I default to the laptop (and its two integrated sources of light). You can probably imagine the thought I had next. “If I could only take that LED off the laptop and put it on a book…” Which is when I realized I needed a booklight.
Not just any booklight. I wanted one that amounted to a single LED I could plug into the wall. So I scoured Amazon until I found something even more perfect: a rechargeable LED booklight. It just arrived today. It’s perfect.
