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RE: RE: RE: [ECS] Peet Bros. Ultimeter 2000 support for ECS David A. Kindred Mon, 30 Aug 1999 16:13:10 -0400

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Thanks, Scott, for the admission of being a fellow HA outcast by the wife! I
feel better now, comrade. I can't wait 'til I can get a new house, then the
basement will be mine, Mine, ALL MINE! {evil laugh} No Y-chromosome, no
entry. Sorry, no exceptions, and take your frilly curtains with you, Honey!

--David

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Danks [mailto:sdanks@ci.tulsa.ok.us]
> Sent: Monday, August 30, 1999 1:41 PM
> To: ecs-list@netbloc.com
> Subject: Re: RE: RE: [ECS] Peet Bros. Ultimeter 2000 support for ECS
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> I managed to talk my wife into letting me have the closet
> under the stairway.  It works pretty good, since it is long
> and slopes, and I have removed the bottom shelf at the back,
> so the top shelf is at the table level, and that's where the
> pc sits.  I attached plywood to the walls and I mount the
> electronics and wires on them.  My kids think it's funny when
> I drag a chair into the closet and close the door.  My 4 year
> old wants to come in and hide.  I have a florescent overhead,
> and the stairway goes over the return air duct, so I drilled
> a hole in the wall between the closet and the return, and I
> need to mount a fan there to cool the closet from all the
> equipment.  I really like it, but when I married my wife, I
> told her up front that I just have one requirement and that
> is to be able to automate the house.  She said as long as it
> looked good and was easy to use it's o.k.  She just objects
> to the long hours I have been putting in on the system.

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