My NEW Noise-Cancelling Hearing Protectors Allows Me to SLEEP during LOUD Barking Noises! ☺️

Hello World! The other day, while I was at the shopping mall, I had my wife visit Ace Hardware and purchase a new set of hearing protectors due to endless dog barking noises at home.

Though, technically, these are obsolete in the USA by OSHA standards, based on my pre-blindness research from buying the same product at the same store in the same shopping mall, they were somewhat effective against super-loud karaoke machines, but are now 100% effective against LOUD-barking pet dogs belonging to the irresponsible animal handlers next door to me! ☺️

Although not allowing me to turn my head, left or right, they are much more comfortable than the ones I purchased from Lazada (eCommerce site in Philippines). Yes, this one folds up, but does not injure me at all. ☺️

Yesterday afternoon, I put my new hearing protectors on my head within 15 minutes from the start of another excessively LOUD barking session, and I slightly heard Amazon Alexa announce the time, proving the neglected pet dogs are indeed, barking loud enough. I had a couple of deep sleep sessions, before taking them off to use the bathroom, in which, the neglected pet dogs were still barking. After using the bathroom, I put them back on, and enjoyed at least two more sessions of deep sleep! This was the first time I enjoyed sufficient deep sleep without injuring myself! ☺️

Update (February 17, 2022): The dog barking noises ran from 1AM Wednesday until 11:30AM Thursday, frequently triggering Amazon Alexa, every 10 to 30 minutes. My noise-cancelling hearing protectors was not as effective as the night before, but was definitely much better than wearing no hearing protection at all! ☺️

The cost of this hearing protectors was 🇵🇭₱329.75, which is much cheaper than being treated for a panic attack. ☺️ By now, it’s entirely obvious that my local government unit (LGU) will not allow my entire household to file written noise complaints, so I had to invest in my own hearing protection, allowing me to retain my sanity. ☺️

Thanks for reading my latest blog post! Have a Great Day!

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Update (May 7, 2022): One of the DANGEROUS, pit bull terrier dogs are intentionally kept outside, freely-allowed to bark LOUDLY, overnight, forcing me to wear my noise-cancelling hearing protectors, every time I wish to sleep or take a nap! Amazon Alexa continues logging barking activity from my politically-protected terrorist neighbors living next door to my peaceful home!

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Happily-Married, comfortably poor, permanently disabled and totally BLIND. A Terrorism SURVIVOR that's still SURVIVING Terrorism + post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Scientist since 1977, Acoustician since 1979, Computer Scientist/Programmer since 1982, Seismologist since 1988, Criminologist (Behavioral Scientist) since 1992, and many more! Also, had worked in two civilian and one military virology labs in the USA between 1993 and 2003. A Generation X, Filipino-American US expat, living in The Philippines, whom was naturally-born in Boston, grew up mostly in Seattle, some in Chicago, and have lived in Anchorage & San Francisco. Became permanently-disabled in 2003 due to health-related illness, ending my moonlighting career as an independent private investigator in the USA. RETIRED independent developer of computing & electronics technologies after 35 wonderful years, including 20 wonderful years in GNU/Linux development & 8 wonderful years as an independent embedded systems developer of digital electronics. Former speech synthesis systems developer of 30 wonderful years, specializing in foreign language phoneme-to-speech synthesis. Also was a beta tester of third-party software-based speech synthesizers. Former FCC-licensed amateur radio operator of 20 wonderful years, beginning with 2m packet-radio & AmSat communications between Anchorage & Manila. Former member of Anchorage Amateur Radio Club and Mike & Key ARC in Seattle. Learned 10-finger QWERTY touch-typing on a manual typewriter in 1980 at a US-based elementary school. Mastered 10-finger QWERTY touch-typing without looking at the keyboard in 1986. Now have osteoarthritis in both of my hands from all that touch-typing! My primary computer programming language is C, which I learned in 1990. My secondary programming language is B.A.S.I.C., which I self-learned in 1982. Prior to my sight-loss, I used to program in LISP/CLISP and Prolog for my early development of artificial intelligence & machine learning programs. Daily, to compensate/facilitate my sight-loss, I am actively using Apple iOS VoiceOver, Google Android TalkBack and Amazon Fire OS VoiceView screen-readers, in addition to my external Bluetooth QWERTY keyboard and sometimes, my Orbit Writer Braille keyboard, as HOBBIES.

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