Project #1: Epic Fail!
May. 31st, 2008 01:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsI have two major projects today: repair my broken headphones, and finish the monkey bars on the kid's swingset. I have a failure of epic proportions on the headphones.
At first, I thought I'd done a good job. The lines inside are painted, not plastic-coated, so it took me a while to figure out how to scrape them clean. And then, after putting it all together, it worked. I could listen to music through my ipod. It was fabulous.
And then I tried playing Half-Life. And it kept screwing up. I kept looking at the wrong things, turning in the wrong direction. I had wired the left and right speakers wrong, and this is one of those sets of headphones that's not comfortable to reverse. Frack! I've replaced the jack three times now, and each time I lose about three-quarters of an inch of cable. It's going to be too short soon to keep doing this.
At first, I thought I'd done a good job. The lines inside are painted, not plastic-coated, so it took me a while to figure out how to scrape them clean. And then, after putting it all together, it worked. I could listen to music through my ipod. It was fabulous.
And then I tried playing Half-Life. And it kept screwing up. I kept looking at the wrong things, turning in the wrong direction. I had wired the left and right speakers wrong, and this is one of those sets of headphones that's not comfortable to reverse. Frack! I've replaced the jack three times now, and each time I lose about three-quarters of an inch of cable. It's going to be too short soon to keep doing this.
