I was going to do a bit of recording today on a borrowed machine, to see how I like it and maybe get one of my own (I have sneaky plans). Marantz PMD660. About the size of a thick paperback book. No tape or mini-disc. It records on a flash-card, like a digital camera. Then you download it into a computer, tweak it a bit there if you need to, and burn a master or go into wholesale production. Neat!
This is usually a very quiet building, especially during the day when just about everyone is gone. But my upstairs neighbor apparently decided to stay home and rearrange her furniture or something, and then the building cleaners arrived and were running vacuum cleaners and floor polishers, and then someone who's moving out decided today was the day and I think they threw a piano downstairs or something like that, followed by several other heavy pieces of furniture, and in general, I've never heard that much yelling back and forth and door slamming in this building before--for the whole flamin' day! Other than that, the day's been okay.
Okay, maybe tomorrow I'll try out the recorder. He's gonna want it back fairly soon.