This is my homemade cooling unit at work.
It is a high speed electric motor, with a fan, put into a home-made sheet metal casing. Originally created to simulate fire for some activity, where an orange cloth would be attached to it and set upright to make it 'flicker'.
I inherited it when a friend went home finish. I inherited a lot of odds n ends to be made into something else.
Yesterday I returned to my office after a 7 week absence. I had been in recording sessions for 5 and board meetings for 2.
I discovered that:
-the server was down
-the AC unit was broken
-the UPS unit was dead
Years ago the windows in my office were replaces with pane glass, because we are at or under ground level with a popular road. Which means we were getting dust into our equipment all the time through the louvres.
So currently I sit at the end of a tunnel like office structure, with only my AC unit to give me an environment in which I can work.
Yesterday I was sweating buckets trying to get my work done in my work office. (recall the computer setup I have? most of it puts off a lot of heat)
I have too much work to accomplish to miss being in the office any longer. (2 NT to post produce to Audibible and a video to edit).
So, I traded my work pants for shorts, my work shirt for a t-shirt, my shoes for 'crocs' and brought my makeshift fan into work, propped it up with 2 cd bundles and went back to work.
It's still warm, but I can at least get a little work done. Even if my forearms are sticking to the desk.
