[Nexus 6 Android Development] Woody:
A simple Friday afternoon musing:

So I was just getting ready to post a nice long post about how "everything" on my phone is working supreme. I mean I am really digging how it looks, runs and performs. Everyone has that one time in their constant flashing and updating where all the synapses are firing in just the right way and it's a thing of beauty. The theme combo I am using is working great with no white-on-white wonk anywhere. I have the latest Viper sounding like a bag of dead cats swinging against a wall, Oh wait, that's just the trance I am listening to. My kernel is sleeping like a baby when needed and ramping up like a pubescent teenager on prom night. Yep, was just about to post that.

Then I went to lunch like I always do and talked to the Mrs. Once we were done, I thought that I would get something to eat since I have to leave straight from work to my sons' baseball game and won't be able to eat for another 6+ hours. Big ole' burrito time. I took it back to my desk and started to get my grub on. Then I felt a sharp pain and found that my temporary crown had popped off my back molar. I figured I would rinse it out before I shot over to the dentist (next building over). Big mistake, as there is a naked tooth under the temp replacement. A sharp lightning strike went right down my neck. Ouch!!

In between my getting lunch and my crown popping off, I noticed that my headphones stopped working. I plugged and unplugged multiple times. Even turned on that status bar headphones thing. Every time I got it in so far, it would disconnect (That's what she said). Thought it might be some lint, so I stuck a paperclip in there to clean it. Didn't work. Figured I would reboot and that still didn't work and now Google Voice Search was popping up. Welp, I had to get to the dentist office and after they fixed my tooth, I came back to work only to be stared at by my food and drink that I couldn't eat for a little over an hour until the cement set in. The horror!! The horror!!.

Since I had some time, I figured I would work on my phone and get those headphones working. I plugged another pair in and they worked. I plugged my headphones into another device and it worked. Hmmm. IIRC, when the Google Voice Search pop up happens while listening to something else, that means that there is usually something corrupting the connection. So I got my Red Light district on and started to blow into the headphone port vigorously. Turns out I didn't get all the lint out and I pulled a small piece that was lodged in between the connectors on the wall-side of the port. Plugged my headphones in and viola, they worked.

The moral of the story is that lint will get into the strangest places beyond your bellybutton (unless you were born in a test tube or of alien copulation) and the only thing that I can do or say is for you to protest the use of pants. It might take some effort to get that one by HR, but I think I might be able to shoot one past the goalie and get the Pants-Optional clause in the handbook.

Oh and never say out loud that you think your rig is perfect and everything is running at its pinnacle. You'll jinx yourself and find that one day you'll be protesting pants for the simplest of reasons like lint in the headphone jack.

#nopantsin2016 #pantlessforpres #shortshatepants #pantsruindevices

[MENTION=4395895]BeansTown106[/MENTION] Thanks for the sweet setup man. I appreciate all that you do for us.