A saxaphone

Lots of hearing experiences left to notch on my belt.  A couple of days ago, I "notched" hearing a saxaphone.  I can see how that instrument can stir the blood of those who love the blues and jazz.  At this point I want to hear instruments separately.  They sound fine together, but it is something like taking it apart to see how it works, to know the individual sounds...helps appreciating the big band sound.  I loved it, but violins will remain my favorite.

There's a subtle but annoying glitch in my program two.  It cuts off even quiet sounds for no reason.  The only way to tell is that a fan noise in the distance comes on, goes soft, comes back and so on.  It happened with only a certain frequency, something below the high frequency area.  It is really hard to narrow down.  But it annoyed me enough tonight while sitting at the computer, that I just unplugged my CI...it was close to bedtime anyhow. 

I've stuck with program two for most of this week.  It doesn't do music with the "big band" sound, but does it nicely enough that I have to think about it to realize certain sounds are not as loud as they should be.  But I'm okay with it, since it means the volume can be louder without the annoying twitching of my left eye. 

Oh there's so many CI moments I'm missing just because they seem so normal, my brain doesn't recognize it as a milestone.  I do hear the police siren, but not if the radio is playing loud.  Hey any hearies out there experience the same thing?  Oh now I remember a CI moment.  I've never known a cat was meowing unless they were practically in my face or I looked at them.  I knocked on a door, no one was home except the cat was meowing!  I've babysat! this cat, and wanted to see how much it had grown.  Couldn't see it, but got to hear it talking to me...trying to invite me into the house.

It's great...there are other moments like this, but this 'noggin doesn't remember they are NEW!