I used to think that my wife barely put up with my nixie clock problem.. I would hear things like "There are no rooms left in the house without a nixie clock! Where in the hell do you plan on putting THIS one?"... and then I got into amateur radio, and she learned to wish that I still was just into nixie clocks. :D The week that she went away and came home with a 52' antenna in the attic.. I was playing it cool, she didn't know anything about it... and then the first time I keyed up and every CRT in the house went berserk and my voice came out of every speaker... and QRM'd every cordless phone... she realized that she should have treasured the time when I was just heavily into building nixie clocks. :)
The above slightly humorous jokes aside, I strongly recommend that anyone who is interested in getting along with their wife pick up a copy of this book: http://www.bettermen.org/better-men-store.asp Also, if you bring your wife home flowers every Friday, then she will put up with a lot more of your crap. -Adam On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Wayne de Geere III <[email protected]>wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
