In My Life

"But of all these friends and lovers
There is no one compares with you
And these memories lose their meaning
When I think of love as something new
Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll stop and think about them
In my life, I love you more."  In My Life, John Lennon, Paul McCartney. Recorded by Judy Collins, 1975

"I have no thought of time
For who knows where the time goes?"  Who Knows Where the Time Goes, Sandy Denny. Recorded by Judy Collins, 1975

"Together we dived into a pool that wasn't there until we dived." from Presentness, Ross Snyder

This afternoon I bought a set of Sony wireless noise-cancelling headphones at Costco. My Bose headphones have served me well for ten years or so but they're completely worn out.  People around me can hear them as well as I can. I've done some research to replace them. And all that research was for Bose headphones.  Both of our automobiles are equipped with Bose surround-sound systems.  I'm a Bose kind of a guy.  But we were in Costco and I walked by a display of headphones.  All that were available were Beat and Sony.  I didn't bother to listen to Beat and put the Sony headphones on my head. I was immediately impressed with what I heard.  To cut down on buyer's remorse, at home I did some research on them. About fifteen minutes.  And I drove back to Costco, about a half mile drive, and bought them.

At home I read all the instructions to figure out the Bluetooth part.  The instructions stated which phones were compatible with the unit and mine was not listed.  But since it's relatively new, I figured my phone didn't exist when those instructions were printed. After some trial and error, the Bluetooth still didn't work. Who ever came up with "Bluetooth" anyway?  Why not just "Wireless"? Then it occurred to me that I hadn't charged the headphones. I charged them for about twenty minutes and tried again.  I followed the connection instructions for my phone and the unit, and voila it worked!  I'm listening to Judy Collins, wirelessly, via Bluetooth and Spotiify from my phone. So why does that matter? Why is wireless better than using a cable?  I haven't figured that part out yet. But it works. And I will.

Another decision I've got to make is whether or not to download the Sony headphone app I read about after the fact. My hesitation is that since I've got the wireless working, why do I want to risk that to install an app that's supposed to connect my headphones  to my phone? They're connected! My curiosity has the best of me though; I'll download the app when I'm finished writing. If it messes it up, I've already figured it out once today.

These songs I quoted were recorded by Judy Collins in 1975.  In 1975 I was a senior in college. My girlfriend was soon to be my fiance, and within a year she would become my wife. At the time I struggled on any day that ended in "y". But I was going through a particularly difficult time.  My girlfriend wrote out by hand the lyrics to "In My Life" and put it in a nice greeting card.  That act of love and kindness meant a lot  to me then and it means a lot to me as I think about it now. Girl. Girlfriend. Fiance. Spouse. Soul-mate. And then "Who Knows Where the Time Goes" is just such a beautiful song.  Listening to it now it sends me back over the decades to the fall of 1975 when in my dorm room I dropped the needle on my LP for the first time to listen to it. It seems impossible that I performed that simple task nearly forty-three years ago. "Who Knows Where the Time Goes" means something different now than it did in 1975 when I was twenty-two years old.

Twice I've clicked on Spotify on my computer to change the song. Twice I've remembered I'm listening to my Spotify app on my phone and not the computer. I'm easily amused.

I kept the receipt, but these headphones are keepers.  Bose is good, but apparently they're not the only game in  town. I really like these headphones. Now I'll download that app. How hard can it be? Give Bluetooth a fighting chance and it will connect to something. Give your girlfriend a fighting chance and she'll change your life. If you're lucky, she'll become your wife.