Message-Id: <20020726021341.OUOR11646.imf07bis.bellsouth.net@[209.214.147.23]> Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 22:13:45 -0400 MIke Freeman wrote: >I don't think it's an issue of making things shut up as it is with >us. No; I think that a lot of people truly are freaked with machines >talking. maybe, but I still think it bugs them. My xyl always comments about a friend's car when we enter as it says "a door is ajar." HEr comment, "no, a door is a door." THe owner of the apartment complexes we manage just had a burglar alarm installed for us since the office is our living room. sEnsors on the ground floor door and windows. Nice unit, backed up with a hefty gel cell, and it talks to me when I need to set it in its differentr modes. sTIll, every time you open the door it says "fault front door." Handy if you're in the kitchen getting coffee while the xyl's out on the properties and a guy comes by with a rent check. SInce the sign on the door advises one to "come on in" during business hours the little announcement can be handy to let you know someone's in teh anteroom <g>. THinking of getting another alarm brain that receives the same rf these sensors put out and putting it in the studio/office radio room upstairs so that I can tell when folks come and go, even when she is downstairs. 73 de kb0ruu Richard Webb Electric Spider Productions "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." --- Benjamin Franklin November 1755