It’s one o’clock on Sunday afternoon. I’m working on a long-delayed post for Get Rich Slowly about my fears over becoming a full-time blogger. This post has been weeks in coming, and I think I’m finally getting it.
I’ve got my radio tuned to the dance music station to give me a constant beat in the background. I’m focused on my writing.
Except Kris is listening to her weekly “Car Talk” podcast in her office. Argh! The noise pollution! Over everything, I can hear the maniacal duck-like laughter of the Magliozzi brothers.
Quack quack quack quack quack.
(Kris loves “Car Talk” and “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me”. These two programs are broadcast back-to-back from 10am to noon on Saturday mornings on our public radio station. If she misses them for some reason, she downloads the free podcasts from iTunes. I think “Wait Wait” is pretty funny, but “Car Talk” drives me nuts.)
First off, those are both great shows.
Secondly, I really sympathize with you here. I find it so hard to focus when there’s background noise in the house, but then, my girlfriend definitely has a right to be there doing whatever she wants in her leisure time. Even if that thing is currently Viva Pinata on the Xbox 360. My inability to focus w/background noise is what the 1990s would call a “personal problem”.
I’ve had a several month long battle where I’ve been trying to justify the Audio-Technica noise canceling headphones. Definitely worth checking out if you’re going to be working at home, would it qualify as a business expense?
I’ve tried these and the Bose Qc3. Both are pure bliss, but at 1/3 the price, the Audio-Technica’s are just as good in my short sampling.
But they’re still $120 plus tax&shipping, which is a lot when I have several pairs of perfectly good headphones lying around.
J.D.,
AJ and I both agree with you about Cah Tahk. We can’t turn it off quickly enough when we hear it.
Car Talk is definitely not for the faint of heart!
NPR is noise pollution…