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Hello. Jonathan, you sound sad.

Hi, I'm not sad. I'm annoyed. I got some problems.

Okay. Before I get into it, let me just do the theme song. Let's get that out of the way.

And then I can really dig into the complaints I have.

Okay, I'm here for you. Let's hear it.

Here we go.

From NPR and WNYC coming to you from our respective homes in beautiful Brooklyn, New York,

it's NPR's hour of puzzles, work games, and lists of petty grievances asked me another.

I'm Jonathan Colton. Now here's your host, O'Fear Eyes and Burn.

You sound upset.

Here's my current situation. Is raining heavily here where I am.

An unanticipated side effect is very loud on the roof.

So I could not record in the room where everything is set up.

So I had to cobble together some kind of mobile version of my recording rig and move it to another.

Yeah.

Part of the house where it's quieter. Here are my complaints.

I am now sitting sideways on a couch in a weird way that already hurts my back

because I couldn't get the phone set up in place to see the zoom video well without doing that.

And I also, because I am old and I have progressive bifocals and because the angle of the phone,

everything just looks totally blurry and there's nothing I can do about it.

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