Oh yeah, the wife. She's not particularly pleased with my nixie tube, clock and vintage western electric and bell system equipment collecting but I always remind her it could have been strippers and coke! That usually gets the point across. :)
Sent from my iPad 2 3G On Jun 4, 2011, at 9:18, [email protected] wrote: > Congrats.... > > I am as excited as you. > > Of course, it is pissing my wife off. BUT, lately, I got smart. > > "Hunny, look what I am getting. No, it's a special buy in deal. The clock > is only $50" > > Michail > > In a message dated 6/4/2011 9:11:07 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > I bought the first Nixisat from Jeff, a cylinder one in Dec '03. Then the bug > bit again in late '08 and found a wood base one on eBay, snatched it up, the > seller just happened to be John Miktuk who wrote the firmware. Later he > discovered a Nixisat base, one of his development prototypes and I bought > that one as well and i populated it with all red Z568M tubes in it for > something different. > > Since then the nixie fever has only gotten worse, but for the better. :) I > can't count anymore the number of tubes and clocks, I suppose that means I > have definitely arrived. > > I came in at the tail-end of the MOD_SIX project and purchased #49 and #50 of > the first production run, I can't wait to put my 7971 tubes to use, I haven't > been this excited about anything in a while though I'm also ordering two of > the Cogwheel X8 kits as well, I am intrigued with the idea of a bunch of > alphanumeric nixies with a Bluetooth computer interface, I am really excited > to see what can be done with it. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "neonixie-l" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB.
