Apparently, we had a lot of fun eight years ago today.
I had (mercifully) long blocked this out of my mind, but I was reminded yesterday of one of two or three instances of “building breakdown”, for the lack of a better word, that happened at the station right before Covid. Eight years ago today a pipe going to the furnace in our building burst, sending water shooting everywhere. It flooded the floors of and got sucked up into the drywall in our bathroom and back conference room. Serv-Pro was called in to clean it up, and to do so they used six industrial-sized air fans blowing into holes drilled into the walls of the affected areas.
Guess whose office was right next to the affected areas?
Now, if you didn't immediately answer “yours, Jim”, you haven't been reading these long enough. They ran 24 hours for almost a week straight, and while they emitted nothing but white noise, the white noise they emitted was so loud that I couldn't hear anything my co-workers said, I couldn't hear the radio playing in my office, and in some instances I couldn't even hear myself think.
Not that the last is necessarily a bad thing.
If I remember correctly I got used to the noise after a while, at least as much as you can get used to something that would probably deafen you over time. And since you basically heard it every place you went in the station, I recall the shock when I went into our air studio, which is soundproof, closed the door, and heard nothing but the (literal) sound of silence.
It's funny, because I usually don't mind having a little noise in my work life. I always have music on, whether it's what we're playing or new stuff that I'm checking out. I myself am always making noise whether by talking to myself or horribly singing or by providing my own sound effects track to whatever I'm currently doing. So I'm obviously not adverse to noise. I guess it just took having six industrial-sized air blowers working for a week to make one realize just how blessedly peaceful silence can be.
And that's why, eight years ago today, I discovered just how wonderful it was to have a sound-proof air studio. Now, I'm just hoping I'm never forced to make that discovery again.
8-)
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