21 Aug
2001
21 Aug
'01
3:19 p.m.
HEY! That's MY excuse! I always claim she's
lucky I don't need 3-phase
power and permanent air conditioning to run my stuff. She just shrugs,
smiles, and walks away...
After a year of "discussing" the issue I was allowed to add a window
unit to my computer room. Before I would have to set the upstairs
air conditioner to 68 to keep the computer room comfortable, but the
rest of the upstairs would get too cold for my wife (separate units
for upstairs and downstairs). Since getting the window unit we can
set the main upstairs air conditioner to whatever makes her happy.
After a couple of months with the window unit she made a remark that
she wished she'd let me get the unit when we first moved in to the
house.
I just moved into a new house a few months ago, and I
now have a finished
basement to set some stuff up. I also have been granted permission to the
loft above the 2-car garage. Now all I have to do is run power, and make a
few windows, and I'm golden :-) Right now it's storage for the collection
that doesn't fit in the basement. Once I get it fixed up, it'll be a neat
space...
In the Dallas area most houses don't have basements (too expensive to dig
out a basement from the rock). I wish I did. I'm contemplating buying an
outdoor building to put in the back yard. I figure if I run power to it
and put in fairly good insulation it would make a great addition for some
of the bigger stuff.
--
Eric Dittman
dittman(a)dittman.net
School Zones: Man's attempt to thwart natural selection.