all good things...

i have an announcement to make.

after several years of hard service and much enjoyment, the end of an era has come.

i must at last give up the ghost and replace my headphones. they've been with me for nearly six years, and in that time they have lost the foam padding on the earpieces, the plastic has disintegrated to the point where my ears are consistently stabbed, they look funny, they've been to three continents, and they've put in their time. i've been reticent to replace them, partially because new headphones cost a limb, partially because i love them and we've been through a lot. and really, who wants to surmount those particular obstacles when the headphones still work perfectly well? certainly not me.

but yesterday, oh yesterday, day of infamy, yesterday the sound started cutting out of the right earpiece. if i wiggled the wire just right, it came back; i initially thought i could just tape it in and make it work, postpone the inevitable a little while longer...

and then i realized that they're ugly and uncomfortable, and really not worth performing surgery on. and that i deserve some new headphones, goddammit. and...and...and yeah.

rest in peace little headphones. you're already dangerously close to resting in pieces.