My Cousin Vinny

In my case, 1 is a definite "yes" and 2 is a definite "not for me". I live in a town of about 1000 in rural Texas and have had fiber to the home for about 10 years - thanks, that is, to rural telephone cooperative, aka socialism.

I have been able to do software consulting and run an internet business from a town where I have real roots. But the last 6 years of Trump have been...difficult. Our youngest kids graduate this year and we will probably keep the homestead but buy a condo in the city and spend most of our time there.

Yeah I live in that rural environment you visit. I could have peace without that sound. But I've basically found peace with it. The rest of life is good enough that I can't complain haha. I won the lottery.

Yeah I feel like I had mine since adolescence. It has just gotten progressively louder as I have aged. I would swear, btw, that after my bout with covid19 it got way worse.

You know, tinnitus is weird. I handle it way better than I would have thought I would. I do miss true quietness at times. Morning coffee on the back porch for example. But it doesn't drive me crazy either. I am sure there is a volume where I would not be able to say that so I am trying to preserve what I have.