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*chortle*
I've
just spent the day at the funeral of my grandmother-in-law (yeah - OK so
it's
not a recognised term but you know what I mean).
At the
family gathering afterwards I was accosted by a female in-laws family
member
(who I've never met) and told that I was nuts having a 6ft screen hanging
from
my living room ceiling and a 130lb CRT projector taking up the dining
table.
Another "in-law" - who again I hadn't met said "I heard you have 8 speakers
in
your living room..." another was incredulous that I'd spent £200 on a
remote
control (I hadn't told her!), others had heard that I'm converting
my garage into a small home cinema and even more were asking
about the
new Olympus E10 (which I'd been asked to take down to do some family group
photos) ... stupid me though got so surrounded with people discussing my
"toys"
between them that I blurted out "So who's got the job of ripping the p**s
out of
my electric curtain rails then?"...
..."What electric curtain rails?" came about
eight
simultaneous replies?
Madness is only relative ... and in my family it
seems
I'm the relative with the madness!
Phil
I'm glad I joined this list, I'm gaining
noteriety daily, perhaps I'm too honest, especially that time I owned up to
being down the pub and the incident with next door's TV (with a little help
from the kit I bought from LetsAutomate) I wish I'd known about the
list
when I started doing HA, I'd have learned a lot more, and would
probably have more than two of those blue internet devices we daren't
mention.
Anyway, back to HomeTech. I think a lot
of
us are serious automation evangelists, a title that would look nice on
our attendees badges! There's a lot of people out there who want
to
do HA and don't know where to start, when you show people how easy it can
be,
its amazing how quickly many of them hit the websites and reach for their
credit cards! I'm sure once we've visited HomeTech we'll come out and
spread the word about what's cool and neat, if that isn't helping HA in the
UK, I'm not sure what will.
BTW extremely dangerous is a great label,
thanks
Keith. I'm dangerous with other people's money, enthuasiasm is
contagious, five of my colleagues now own ePods (oops) and a good number
are
into X10. Finding the time to get this stuff working together is the
problem I have...
- Phil
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