June the Oneth

Happy Friday!

It was 43 & cloudy when I got up this morning, but of course the sun was up before I was. As the summer solstice approaches, we're at the beginning of a roughly six-week period where it doesn't get dark at night. Dusky at 2 a.m., yes, but never dark.

I got a call at 6:45 in the blessed a.m. from some HR person in Michigan, checking references on a former employee of mine. The kid must be new, because during my years as a recruiter, I never dialed an unfamiliar area code without checking to see what time zone it was in.

Preserve us from newbies in any profession ... sigh.

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I've been maintaining a large valise full of patch cords, connectors, splitters, speaker wire, automotive dashboard switches and other miscellany for more than 30 years. When I began, it was almost entirely audio cables & plugs, but has morphed through the years to include AC adapters in various voltages, PC connectors, USB cables, CAT 5 cable, A/V coax, and ... the list goes on.

Whenever a need arises, I can usually find something in there to make dissimilar connections talk to each other. The collection has long since been unwieldy, so this morning I emptied the contents on a large table at work, and began sorting through what was in there.

I threw out all the 1/4" phone plugs/jacks, since almost nothing uses those any more (except professional sound boards/guitar amps/etc, but I keep all of that stuff elsewhere).  It seems I've done this at least once previously, because there weren't as many items of that size as I remembered. As a result, the discard pile wasn't as large as expected, and the valise still has a lot of things in it. Oh, well.

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Not much else to report this morning, so I'll stop with this. Have a great day, folks.