Hoo Boy!

the ringing

beat like two

Sorry about that. I was out in my little machine room, wishing it was as warm inside as it is outside (we have an early thaw) and while running my Bridgeport that is rather silent compared to my Clausing lathe, I had my left ear change tone. Never had that happen before. That was freaky. Nicer tone, lower frequency but I'm back to my normal ringing now.

Metal content, I drilled and tapped my collet stop for a set screw on the BP when that tone changed for a short time.

Wes

So no sudden moment? I had a number of years where the servers in my office and the room beyond were rather loud. I also had a high speed dot matrix printer back there. Something like 1080 CPS iirc.

Wes

On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:32:49 -0500, the infamous Wes scrawled the following:

enought that I

How could you miss dropping an earplug?!? It sure sucks that you did.

line around F4

maybe put it in

The cheapies from HF work just fine. $15 on sale. Instant on, but recovery time (amplified ambient noise returing) takes about 2 seconds, longer than I'd like. They worked just peachy at the local range's machine gun shoot last year.

the ringing

I often notice that 1 ear is ringing. Less often, both act up at the same time. I thank Crom that they're synchronous. I'd hate to always want to be doing a carb sync on them. Egad, what agony that'd be!

-- There is no such thing as limits to growth, because there are no limits to the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder. --Ronald Reagan

Day three today with the new bifocal contacts. Incredible that I can read close up. Mid vision and far off a little blurry, but toleable. Have to drive to Vegas tomorrow and back in the same day, so that will be a test. Will take alternate glasses in case. Still haven't welded, as everything is soaked around here. Can't wait. Get the no lines Monday.

Steve

Bifocal contacts? As in you non-dominant eye gets a lens about a point lower in magnification? Or something new?

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line around F4

maybe put it in

the ringing

No, it's not in synch all of the time. What I've been most irritated with is the octive(s) change as I get older. You get used to one note and then it'll morph into two. Seems as soon as I get accustomed to it, it changes again. It's now two different octives in my right ear and three in my left. I don't get the chirping though.

My tinitus drives my wife crazy. The combined sounds I hear are exactly the same as when our am radio is tuned just off of the stations optimum setting. I can't hear it because I always hear that noise. She'll stomp over with a harumph and an eye roll to tune it in better when I mess up . But, she does understand what tinitus is and why it drives people crazy.

Newb

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It was dead quiet outside. Foam ear plugs tend to work their way out of my ears and it was cold enough that the plugs lost their resiliency which agravated the issue.

I did notice the absence milliseconds after I made a really loud noise :(

Wes

ffice and the room

ck there. Something

This was previous to any "servers" ever existing. Washing machine- sized disk drives whining away, tape drives buzzing back and forth and the high-speed punch card equipment. The readers had a significant air and vacuum component and sounded like jets winding up. Probably about 1000 cards a minute, they'd read a tray in no time. The air jets separated the cards, the vacuum pulled them against the drive wheel for reading. Probably several hundred pounds of prime electromechanical engineering there. Then there was always the A/C rumbling away. I'd always had some ringing but it was faint, but not after all that.

Stan

I only saw that kind of hardware when doing a tour of a college I hoped to have been able to attend if the finances worked out. I'm thinking 1974 at Rose Hullman in Indiana. The IT departments line printer printed so fast that the paper was shooting about 2 feet in the air before curving and returning to terra firma.

Sadly, I couldn't swing the bucks to attend. Instead, I joined the Marines. I did get an education that has been useful to me. I always wonder what might have been though. No real regrets though.

Wes

I don't really understand it all. I just know it works! I can now read fine print at six inches, and it stays in focus out to about 25 feet on most stuff. After that, it gets a little fuzzy out to about 150', then the big letters get hard to read. But I drove to and back from Vegas today, 185 miles, and the distance wasn't blurry enough to make a difference at all. At night, though, the oncoming lights are a bit brighter.

I wish I would have known about these. I have been wearing bifocals now for about ten years. I can't wait to try them out welding. It's been wet around here for weeks, and cold, and I've been feeling puny, and doctor said to take it easy or I might die.

But I'm feeling up to it now. Will report in.

See your eye doctor.

Air Optix Multifocal is what they are called. They last a month. $158 out of pocket for six months worth of two different lenses, or twelve lenses. I thought they would last a lot longer, as I have had contacts, and don't tend to wear them often. Now I wear them all day, and in the evening take them off and wear my old bifocals that are now going to be replaced by some more powerful ones Monday.

I still habitually nod my head up and down with the contacts on, and haven't gotten used to the fact that I can look sideways now without turning my head. At the computer, I still lean my head back until I realize I'm doing it, a habit like biting fingernails. And then when I get my new glasses, I'm probably going to be really confused switching between the two.

I love 'em.

Steve

I have been following the thread, and will now chime in. I have read some very good descriptions of transient sounds I can now define as definite tinnitus. I wear hearing aids, and have for about six years now.

Before that, it was what, huh? Huh? Huh? I must have been a real drag. My wife gave me an appointment for my birthday one year. Hah, I said.

I really don't get constant ringing. Just a ooooooooeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee sound that is like an electronic tone they give you during a hearing test, starts out lower, and like someone is turning a potentiometer, it curves right up until it disappears.

I really appreciate the cricket comments. I was getting that for a spell, and would come on when I jiggled my head. Sounded like someone shaking some change in their hand. I just though it was probably a couple of screws loose.

Apparently, I don't have it as bad as some people here. When I take out my hearing aids to go to bed, I don't hear much at all. And the other is transitory.

I take about 450 doses of medicines each month, so some of it might be coming from that.

Ya think?

Steve

FYI, tinnitus is not in spelchekr until added.

Steve

Thats why UNIX had the charming error code

LP2 ON FIRE

for when the line printer #2 reported back what it could through the centronics port that something wasn't right, and should be looked at, pronto.

did get an

Isn't it obvious? You would have moved to Madison for grad school and become a liberal.

I'm aware of two different types of bifocal contact lenses. I"ve had both in the past. The first type had two concentric lenses so you were always getting a near and far image conveyed, and the brain sorted it out as a clear image no matter what distance you're lookin at. As my eyes worsened, I needed the second type. In the latter, the lens is weighted so that the near vision is in a sector at the bottom of the lens, just like bifocal glasses. The weighted lenses had a little cutout in the periphery to help keep them from rotating.

RWL

I did get an

Rose Hulman was an all male engineering school at the time, not a liberal indoctrination center.

Are you refering to University of Wisconsin - Madison, the midwest version of USC-Berserkley?

Wes

I did get an

That's what I meant, Wes. Even though I got my ME degree at one of those liberal indoctrination centers in Boston, I wasn't tyrying to make a joke at your expense. On the contrary, you strike me as someone who would have made the most of an engineering degree.

I didn't think you were funning me. At to the latter, as the years go by, I think pursuing a ME degree right after my hitch in the USMC would have been a good plan. After all, I had the GI Bill.

Thanks,

Wes