I was sure everything would work. I had a little bit of mastodon maintenance to do out of hours, so I stayed up, kicked it off at midnight, and went to bed at half past twelve.
I set my alarm for 0830 and this would have been fine but for the machinery on the street that started making noise at 0545. Sometimes the garbage trucks rock up at this time, so I stayed in bed with my eyes closed trying to get back to sleep, but it kept going; unending bass thrumming punctuated with reversing beeps.
Turns out it’s a new construction site breaking ground. They were moving a medium sized diesel crane into position, letting it idle, and occasionally rev up to do who knows what. People were going up and down on a scissor lift, beeping all the way. And you’d better believe all the noise came straight into my bedroom.
Bleary eyed and feeling like a sack of shit, I called the Brisbane Council noise hotline to complain. The helpful lady confirmed “that’s not classed as construction noise,” so there’s no noise complaint to make. She suggested I keep a noise diary.
I’m so tired.
I rearranged my life to wake up at 0600 for a while there, but I fell out of the habit for a few reasons. But if this is what Brisbane Council counts as reasonable, I think I need to start again because I have little other agency over my life. This city.