By Juan C. Ayllon Transformers are massive, hypertrophied Sci-Fi action fighting robots that can morph into cars, and if they were real and played hockey, I could see them using Carbide Base Audio Isolation Feet for pucks. The Carbides are that big -- and speaking as someone who, though embarrassed, admits to watching several of their movies -- they are that space age cool. Marveling at their quality look, feel and finish fresh out of the box, I felt like a 12 year-old wanting to play with the latest Transformer toy. Only, instead of hoisting shiny Hasbro monstrosities and making whooshing noises from my lips, I am tucking Carbide footers under my Usher ML-802 loudspeakers and making marvelous music with their drivers.
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By Juan C. Ayllon As an educator, I've been dutiful in getting vaccinated, boosted and re-boosted, and after remaining unscathed for roughly a year and a half through remote and hybrid teaching models, I caught a mild dose of COVID-19. I thought I was done.
Guess again. Last week following three rounds of antibiotics over a stretch of several months, I was seemingly at the tail end of a bad sinus infection -- and then it roared back with a vengeance. Coughing, sneezing, sore throat, and muscle aches. It felt like the flu, sans the nausea. I tested negative for COVID several times, but going into last weekend, I felt horrible. A visit to Urgent Care followed, along with more medication. Just to be on the safe side, Belle asked me to take another COVID test with a home kit. Surprise! I tested positive. We tested again to ensure it wasn't a false reading. Nope, I was positive. Of course, I contacted the Urgent Care center I'd visited, as well as several people I'd seen on Saturday. And, like that, I was relegated to remaining home in isolation for five days, |
Juan C. AyllonA writer, artist, educator and owner of Prairie Audio Man Cave, he lives with his wife, Isabel (AKA Belle), and their Goldendoodle, Liam, enjoys listening to high fidelity music and all things hi-fi at their home in the greater Chicagoland area.. Archives
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