I've been marveling at how simple our lives have become and I suspect that will become rote after a while but for now it's pretty unique. Now that my studio space is set up I can listen to music on my powered near field monitors (M-Audio BX5as) from a file folder on my laptop's desktop named "Most Played" or directly from my 1 terabyte outboard hard drive with over 600 gigs of music on it but the coolest thing I purchased recently was a Logitech Z323 EU which is a small powered subwoofer with 2 outboard speakers powered by the same subwoofer that I hooked up to our Sony LCD TV that was here in our furnished apartment. It took me a while to notice that there was a cord with a 1/8 inch green plug on it that was also live "line level" wise that fit perfectly into the headphone jack of my tiny Sandisk 8 gig portable MP3 player which I plugged in and viola! Instant stereo and since I loaded it with our favorite music (over 900 tracks or around 60 or so albums) and set it in "shuffle" mode it literally plays ALL DAY.
The Logitech powered speaker system cost 59 euros which is about 68 dollars and has a whopping 30 watts RMS but it sounds GREAT in the huge room that's our living room/dining room so that's our stereo going forward for the next 3 or more years. The Sandisk doesn't have batteries and recharges using a USB port on my laptop. I spent months recoding all of our CDs into MP3 files and loading all of it onto an outboard hard drive so as to reduce the footprint of what we were bringing to a significantly smaller place (roughly the size of our ground floor in Lynchburg).
For evening entertainment Cassie and I watch episodes of one of our favorite TV shows ever "The West Wing" as she purchased the entire series on DVD for us both last Christmas or DVD movies in one of 3 large DVD wallets we shipped along with a modest DVD library of probably 30 or 40 other DVDs in their cases. The Logitech system kicks ass as a speaker system for our TV too. Go figure......*
Cassie comes home from an overnight in Provence (gee that must have been tough) this evening and we're going out for dinner. Perhaps to Chez Geraud again at least that's my choice but maybe somewhere else. We'll see.
We actually happened on a Dominoes Pizza place looking for the Picard (frozen food store) last weekend. The Picard will be Cassie's next post.
There are "knacks" (AKA hotdogs) cooking in the oven for the twins tonight who are doing quite well with Strayer University online thank you very much. I think going to college online is going to really agree with them and especially Kian.
Life is good here at Rue Nic. Can't wait to see you all here one day.
A bientot
Sid Hagan
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