Ear Candy | Bose Companion Speakers

I've recently been gifted something wonderful: the Bose Companion 3, Series II desktop speaker system for my home office.

I've been using a great set of speakers from Logitech for a couple years now, but after hooking up both systems and testing them out side-by-side, there is no comparison. I'm more surprised by that than I thought I would be. You should check them out. 

Things I Use

Productivity & Analog Tools - Everyday Carry

UPDATED January 2017

• Baron Fig Confidant Notebook 
• Field Notes | Daily pocket notebook, mind-dump, found info, dash/plus. I also use for writing poetry, keeping a daily memorandum, and more.
• DDC Stuff Sheath | For carrying/protecting Field Notes
• Crumpler Horseman 17in Messenger Bag | Brown & orange, love it
• Retro 1951 Orange | My most-used pen
• Muji Pen 0.38
• Waterman Charleston - Fountain Pen
• Noodler's Ahab Fountain Pen
• Opinel No 6 Carbon Knife - I use this daily to hand-sharpen pencils. It's on my desk sitting in an Altoids tin I use to collect and dispose of pencil shavings. 

Pencils

• Erasable Podcast | If you want to obsess with me over pencils
• Mitsubishi 9800 HB | Beautiful, dark green and smooth writing
• Palomino Blackwing 602 & Pearl | Best pencils around
• General's Cedar Point | Natural wood & lovely
• Kum Masterpiece | My EDC sharpener
• Kum Two Step Pencil Sharpener

Music

• Sennheiser Momentum 2.0 Over-Ear Headphones | If you see me at a cafe, I'm wearing these
• Beats by Dr. Dre Tour High-Resolution In-Ear Headphones from Monster | My EDC headphones in my Crumpler
• Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 THX Computer Speaker System | Home office music/audio
• Creative Sound Blaster Roar | Bluetooth speaker, for family gametime, firepit, and travel
• Amazon MP3 | I buy almost all of my music at Amazon

Computer

• MacBook Pro
• Rain Design mStand | So I sit right and don't break my neck
• Brother MFC-J870DW | For whole family, Wi-Fi printing anywhere in our house
• Altoids Wintergreen
• Crane's Stationary | Quality personal notes
• Seagate 3TB MacBook Backup

Apple & Kindle & Tech

• iPhone 6s
• iPad Mini 2
• Kindle 3G & Wi-Fi Paperwhite | Use nightly
• Kindle Paperwhite Cover | Persimmon, great color & function
• Echo Dot

Bibles & Devotional

• ESV Reader's Bible 
• ESV Reader's Bible - Psalms
• ESV Pitt Minion Reference Brown Goatskin (Cambridge) | everyday carry
• ESV Thinline Heirloom | For preaching
• ESV Study Bible | For study, app, reference
• Reformation Study Bible | Study
• ESV Compact Bible | My EDC, for portability, evangelism
• ESV Four Holy Gospels | Word & art, have used for family devotions
• Valley of Vision | Puritan prayers

Photography

• iPhone 6s
• *Nikon D50 | My dSLR camera
• Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 | Stock lens
• *Nikkor 28-200mm f/3.5-5.6G | Everyday lens
• Moo MiniCards | Photographer business card
• Tamrac Velocity 6 | Camera's compact sling pack

Poetry

• Field Notes | I am using a subscription-only version of their reporter's notebook for poetry writing
• Notes | I write some on-the-go in my Notes app

Apps & Tools

• Apple Music | Family subscription
• Squarespace | personal blog & church website
• Tweetbot | for Twitter
• Pocket | articles and posts archive
• iTunes | for music & iPod sync
• Amazon Prime | mostly for shipping, also for music
• Vimeo & YouTube | family & church videos
• Feedly | Use infrequently to see some blogs
• Trello | Quickly becoming the greatest app ever in my eyes
• Google Docs | So much done here