I don't have a date for this memory.
This was at some point in the Spring of 2020. Well...it had to be before March now that I think about it. So, February...
I had a noise device coming from either Malaysia or the Philippines. I ordered a lot of stuff from people, both domestic and international, in those days. So, that detail is slightly fuzzy.
The postal carrier had been at my door when I was in the shower. So, I missed them.
I checked the mail a couple of hours later and saw the letter card indicating that I had missed them. I figured: "Well, it's early enough to set up tomorrow's redelivery."
I called the post office and left my full legal name and my phone number.
Maybe an hour later, I got a call. I heard an automated voice say: "We received a call from "legal name". I would record myself every great once in a while to see what I sound like. With proper equipment and not a silly phone: Shure Beta58A mic into a Tascam interface. I would make sure that the EQ was zeroed out to avoid any of that stuff.
So, I hear my full name in my voice without the skull resonance interfering with things. It totally blew my mind. I couldn't believe it. THAT was such a massive boost. It was amazing. I never doubted myself after that. Not even on my most depressive of days.
Sure, I have to deal with damage from that tonsilectomy that I had exactly one year after the orchi (Same time of the morning and everything. It was such a trip.), But that's just life.
