It’s weird but check it.

Normally I have my music playing on a “22” out of a max 30 volume level.  But in the early mornings, I have to turn the volume down to a “6” or it’s too loud.  WTF?

Just guess here, but two factors come into play.

One, the ground noise theory.
Mornings are the quietest part of the day, no other people making noise, no TV’s on, no trucks going by, and no matter how quiet you try to be it seems like you make more noise in the am. Something so much louder then this environment would seem hideously loud.

Two, the car theory.
Ever get out of your car after listening to a great song and singing along while you drive, then you stop to get your eyes waxed or a Brazilian bikini line, and when you return, you turn the car on and the radio is blasting and you’re thinking…what was I friggin deaf?...the nice part is this theory also uses the ground floor noise theory, its not the level alone, but the level compared to the available sound around it.

Surrounding noise levels are surely lower in the AM for me.  For the record, I have to be at work by 7:30 AM, which means I leave my house at 6:30.  At that time, there’s nothing going on out there.  Funny how you said every noise is too loud in the AM’s no matter how quietly you try to sneak around.

I think the two factors also comine with your head in general.  In the mornings, people’s ears are more sensitive.  Anything too loud and you getn easy headache.

I don’t have acar though, but I’ve experienced that at car rentals.  :x

i think its cuz you’re waking up after a night of heavy drinking.

Hmm, I do get headaches a lot.  :think:  Ant, where’s your Avatar?

Hector, what part of NY, we’re probably driving next to each other on the way to work…LOL

I remember as a teen memorizing the steps that creaked and using the back door cos it opened to a rug instead of hard floors as well as being further away. But something always made noise, your zipper sounds like 110db at 4am so I think it works on that pricinpal.

Heheheh.  You’re like D@mn it!!!  Why is that so loud?!  I take the subway to Manhattan, from Queens.  Once I’m in there, I need to blast the phones a little more.  Still overall, I think the morning volumes are lower.  Actually, I’ve been just using the earplugs without music, becasue I’m trying to read and they do a decent job blocking out people and noise.  I’m finishing up LOTR before the EE comes out in December.

Hmm, I do get headaches a lot.  :think:  Ant, where’s your Avatar?

I used to have that really cool dude with the fro doing the backflip and landing on his face, but then someone on this very forum decided to jack it and never actually saved it on their own webhost, and it was destroying my bandwidth. i started tracing where it went, and it was rediculous. its almost a 1mb file, and i noticed that i was avg about 800 transfers a day with that one file…so ya, if i didn’t stop it when i did, i would of owed mucho dinero. but i did get redemption, i replaced the file with a picture of a giant WANG, and i checked the places it used to be a few hours later and it was taken down, hahahahaha. lesson: don’t leech or you will get the blame for the giant penis on your page/post.

Yeah, that was the best Avatar ever.  It made me laugh so hard everytime I stared at it.  But you have to get a new one though, even if it’s not a 1Meg file.  If you need something placed in the gallery let me know at the Suggestion Board, Avatar thread.  I’m bugging Andru about loading them up, and might have to do them myself.  Otherwise you can link to it.  :|  😢  :|    😉