The Importance of Headphones

Notice anything missing in this picture?

The pot handle fell off.  I was wondering what to do with it and decided to keep it in case I needed it someday.  My engineering education makes me see everything as a piece with which to solve a problem, so I hold on to a lot of junk.

Then, a couple of days later, my headphones snap.  The wire wasn't damaged, but if I wanted to listen to music I would need to hold the left headphone on my head and who wants to do that?  When I get bored in village, music is a big pick me up.  It's essential for bush taxi rides into town, it's no fun riding along with a cow in the back seat and a villager next to you asking if they can have your bike.  No one bothers you when you're in the zone and nothing says "the zone" like a pair of over the ear headphones.  As a side note, I doubt I'll ever go back to ear buds.  The sound quality is lower, the ear damage seems like it would be worse and I don't mind the big headphones sitting on my head in public, I already had a big head to begin with.

I had to fix my headphones and I needed a piece of metal, slightly rounded like a head, that I could use as a splint.  Now where was that pot handle...

                                                       

I took about an hour, but these kind of repair jobs are fun for me.  I enjoy the distraction, it takes me back to my K'nex days.  I had a bunch of old wire laying around from when I made an extendable light switch so that I could sleep outside in the hot season and still control the lights with my door locked.  I took of the insulation and tore up my fingers tying it real tight around the handle, but I got it on there nice and tightlike.

Now I can rock again.

And my headphones have a handle now that I can also wrap the cord around during travel.