RE: WAS: Re: Rio Receiver NOW: Come back to my place bouncy-bouncy!

["Stuart Booth" <stuart@xxxxxxx>]

On 9 Oct 01, at 16:32, Mark Harrison wrote:

> We do the same, but without the cycling.
>
> I think it's fair to say that none of the long-term gang are, shall we
> say, excercise fanatics.

d8-) Well, 2 of the 3 of us I was talking about do cycle (and I'm one
of them; 8mile each way to work most days, fact fans), but it was
actually a bad choice of word on my part. I meant we take it in
turns to have the team round to hit the bigger jobs. A round-robin
type thing.

> Remember that we are, at heart, a bunch of blokes willing to spend
quite
> large amounts of money to avoid having to stand up and walk to a
> lightswitch ;-)

Oh yes, me too! I desperately want to be able to toggle my office
light directly from my PC. It's on the other side of the room, maybe
3m away. SUCH a hassle getting up to turn it on/off !

Stuart


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stuart Booth [mailto:stuart@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 9 October 2001 16:05
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] WAS: Re: Rio Receiver NOW: Come back to my place
> bouncy-bouncy!
>
> On 9 Oct 01, at 13:47, Paul Gordon wrote:
>
> > Talking of which, do any of you blokes who've met me fancy coming
> round to
> > my place for a day/evening/night of playing with HA toys, helping
me
> run
> > some cable, and eating/drinking as much curry/pizza/beer as is
> possible. I'm

> I certainly haven't met any of you guys, but this is how a couple of
> mates and I do it over here. We had a jolly DIY weekend just past,
> and we'll cycle around each of our places in turn. I'll get a turn
> eventually and we'll hit my walls with some CAT5 cabling. Plus, the
> number of DIY top tips I picked up this w/e was astounding. Really
> recommended from my point of view!