The construction site would be eerily quiet if it weren't for the Best of the Beach Boys playing at this week's typical volume level. The halls and grounds are clean and empty of equipment and supplies, except for a table full of picnic supplies, and a rack of hard-hats standing next to it ( Read more... )

Fraser's mostly distracted today, head bent over a clipboard and face etched in a thin line. He does smile and nod at those arriving at the construction site but quickly goes back to the clipboard and scribblings he'll be pouring over for the rest of the day.

If you noticed a Xander-less construction site for most of the morning, you weren't imagining things. It took him a while to hop there from MCA ( Read more... )

Continuing with the theme, there's paint, brushes and rollers set out for the painting job to continue. There's also the very loud, very ear bleedy sound of My Heart Will Go On being piped through the sound system.

Even Fraser's wincing in pain at that.

Laid out for the workers is an array of small projects involving screwdrivers, paint and brushes, tar and shingles - anything that, unlike last week's efforts - won't make noise.

While there's still large machinery around that could be used for that, Xander's decided to step down that aspect of the ... thing that is not in any way an annoyance ( Read more... )

Fraser decided to continue Operation Test the Equipment for one day longer. So, the construction site is alive with noise this morning and Fraser looks quite pleased with this development ( Read more... )

This week's "Test The Equipment" project seems to be going so well that Xander doesn't see any reason to put an end to it.

New earplugs have been provided, though. In a rainbow of fruit flavors and disturbing shapes"These guys are designed to block out the loud sounds and still let you hear people talking," Xander tells the workers. "Just in case ( Read more... )

Since he'd passed by the construction site yesterday and was able to pick up on what Xander was doing (and so well, mind you), Fraser gave the order to keep up the noise, the sounds, and to keep them up as loud and as long as they could.

When the students arrived, Fraser waved and pointed to the safety equipment. It was far too loud to talk.

Xander? Bitchily grim as he walks around pointing out various pieces of Very Loud Equipment ( Read more... )

When Fraser arrived on scene and got up to speed, he couldn't help smiling at what Xander had done on Friday. And Fraser made absolutely no move to fix it. After all, if Xander thought those vents needed to be closed then they definitely needed to be closed ( Read more... )