What's That Sound
It started last week, this strange little buzzing sound from the kitchen. Sara and I both looked and listened, it sounded like a buzzer, just loud enough to be heard and to be annoying.
The house is just barely a year old, it's a little soon for it to be haunted and develop mystery noises like that. To be it sounded like something in the kitchen. Maybe the microwave had blown something or the oven was just on the fritz and making funny noises, but every time I listened closely to them I heard nothing. Sara thought it was coming from the attic, maybe it was one of the attic fans making a funny noise. So, up in the attic I went, not a noise to be heard.
Me, being the piratical engineer that I am, figured it had to be an electrical noise. I thought maybe it was something with the surround sound or the television, but no. It was much louder in the kitchen. So, now not only did I have a mystery noise, I had a mystery noise that could throw its voice.
Putting my electrical engineering degree to use, I thought I'd just turn off the breakers in the house until I found the one that stopped the noise and thus narrowing down where the noise could be coming from. One by I turned them off with Sara in the house listening. Finally I turned them all off and came back in the house. I still heard the noise.
Now I'm thinking gas leak, that has to be it. There was no electricity on in the house, so it had to be gas hissing at either the stove or the fireplace. I listened and listened, not a sound from either, but I could still hear the noise.
Smoke alarms, it must be the smoke alarms, they are battery powered and they must be making the noise. Wait, there's no smoke alarm anywhere around the kitchen. That's a good thing when I cook sometimes.
I then begin digging through the cabinets, determined to find the secret CIA bugging device that must have shorted out in the house and is making the noise. Well, begin digging after turning back on the power to the house, I did want the air conditioning.
Finally, after emptying the drawers, buried in the back of the desk in the kitchen, I find Sara's handheld Sudoku game, buzzing.
Batteries removed, problem solved, sanity, only slightly diminished.
The house is just barely a year old, it's a little soon for it to be haunted and develop mystery noises like that. To be it sounded like something in the kitchen. Maybe the microwave had blown something or the oven was just on the fritz and making funny noises, but every time I listened closely to them I heard nothing. Sara thought it was coming from the attic, maybe it was one of the attic fans making a funny noise. So, up in the attic I went, not a noise to be heard.
Me, being the piratical engineer that I am, figured it had to be an electrical noise. I thought maybe it was something with the surround sound or the television, but no. It was much louder in the kitchen. So, now not only did I have a mystery noise, I had a mystery noise that could throw its voice.
Putting my electrical engineering degree to use, I thought I'd just turn off the breakers in the house until I found the one that stopped the noise and thus narrowing down where the noise could be coming from. One by I turned them off with Sara in the house listening. Finally I turned them all off and came back in the house. I still heard the noise.
Now I'm thinking gas leak, that has to be it. There was no electricity on in the house, so it had to be gas hissing at either the stove or the fireplace. I listened and listened, not a sound from either, but I could still hear the noise.
Smoke alarms, it must be the smoke alarms, they are battery powered and they must be making the noise. Wait, there's no smoke alarm anywhere around the kitchen. That's a good thing when I cook sometimes.
I then begin digging through the cabinets, determined to find the secret CIA bugging device that must have shorted out in the house and is making the noise. Well, begin digging after turning back on the power to the house, I did want the air conditioning.
Finally, after emptying the drawers, buried in the back of the desk in the kitchen, I find Sara's handheld Sudoku game, buzzing.
Batteries removed, problem solved, sanity, only slightly diminished.
posted by Jeremy at 9:19 AM
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