In my home office, I predominantly use Skype for business calls as it is way cheaper for me than using a land line or the air time on my cell phone. Since I am often on the phone a lot, I decided to get a new USB headset and settled on the Microsoft LifeChat LX-3000 (found on Amazon here). Upon receiving the headsets I was pleased with the comfort and in-line mute and volume controls. Installation on my XP machine worked flawlessly and all was going well until I fired up Skype and started my first call of the day. All of the sudden I couldn’t hear myself when I spoke although others could hear me. This might not sound like a big deal to some but let me tell you it is weird and I found myself stumbling on my words a bit. I was able to keep working but knew there had to be a solution. There was nothing out on any forums so I just started clicking through sound menus until, low and behold, I found the solution! So I now present it to you.
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Monthly Archive for October, 2009
Start: Las Vegas, CA 10:25am
End: San Diego, CA 4:54pm
Miles: 350
Total trip miles: 2,899
Summary:
Well, the trip came to and end. And what a trip it was! Traveling by motorcycle is infinitely different than travel by car and I learned many valuable lessons about motorcycle touring.
But the most important lessons I learned aren’t ones which can be listed in order or are so matter-of-fact. These are the lessons one can only learn when in soltitude and faced with challenges. Personal lessons about who we are and what’s important. It’s the people in our lives and who we are which give satisfaction and meaning. We are not defined by our jobs, education level, net worth, or clothes on our backs. I realized how important people are to me, without them we’re simply cruising along in landscapes in scenery. The future may be uncertain, and things may change around us, but the firm bedrock of the soul, if discovered and nurtured properly, will weather anything and stay as solid and everlasting as the granite mountains of the Rockies. I hope to be able to take this spirit of adventure I used during this motorcycle trip and apply it to other areas of my life, to use the same courage to challenge myself personally and try to grow as a person by facing down my fears in other areas. Thanks to all who have supported me in the past few weeks, the small and big things mean more than you may know.
Start: Salina, UT 9:38am
End: Las Vegas, NV 3:24pm
Miles: 390
Money won: $31.25
Summary:
Today was a pretty chill day (pun intended). Leaving Salina the tempature was about 30 degrees and it didn’t get above 50 until about an hour outside of Vegas. I had some coffee with some Harley guys I kept seeing since Denver and we talked about our near death experiences the day before in the snowstorm. Drove through some cool canyons then got in to Vegas where I got a cheap room at the Luxor. After a great skate session at one of my favorite skateparks, I walked to watch the Bellagio then played some slots where I came out ahead $31.25. It always feels bad when you put another casino out of business 
Tomorrow…back to San Diego where the bike gets a good bath and tune up.
