lol, yes. always assume worst case scenario.CarbonNeutral said:Of course, when skype screws up, or something breaks, do you just assume your house has burned down?
Danno77 said:hahaha, why do you think I set this up? I leave for a conference early tomorrow morning and won't be back until saturday afternoon. Normally, I'd just say "forget about keeping a fire while I'm gone" but it's gonna be pretty frigid tomorrow night (like 7 below or something) and she's gonna freeze her fanny off if she doesn't have a fire going.
She's got about a full page of instructions to follow on using the stove. I've showed her how to use it, but I just am not 100% comfortable yet. I'll probably be checking it every few minutes while I'm gone.
Danno77 said:She's got about a full page of instructions to follow on using the stove. I've showed her how to use it, but I just am not 100% comfortable yet.
Battenkiller said:Danno77 said:She's got about a full page of instructions to follow on using the stove. I've showed her how to use it, but I just am not 100% comfortable yet.
Fuggetaboutit. They never learn. :roll:
All last year I never let my wife even touch the stove. This year I dedided to show her the ropes, and she seemed OK as long as I was supervising. Well, she took a snow day off yesterday and decided to do me a favor and get the fire going. I called out to see where she was and she said she was downstairs with the stove. Half an hour later she's still down there, so I go down and see what's up. The stove is cold as hell. I open the top to peak in and through a dense blanket of smoke I can make out about 40 pounds of wet birch sitting on top of a little pile of coals... sitting on top of a huge pile of ashes.
WTF!
Me: "Where did you get that wood from?"
Wife: "The stack that we brought in yesterday."
Me: "That stuff was just cut less than three weeks ago."
Wife: "You told me that you were already burning the black birch."
Me: (through gritted teeth) "Yes......The stuff I brought in two weeks ago and has been sitting right across the stove with a fan blowing on it the whole time."
Wife: "What's the difference?"
Now, my wife has an IQ that's probably higher than some folks' flue temps, but that don't mean she has a lot of common sense. To me, running a brain is kinda like running a stove. A mediocre one run well is better than the best damn stove in the world run poorly. God gave me a crappy stove, so I had to learn to use it.
Her little brother's the same way. IQ in the genius range. Advanced degree in engineering from Clarkson. Computer whiz extraordinaire. We got to talking about my car AC and I mentioned that I thought I had a leak because the thing wouldn't hold a charge of Freon. He says, "Well, you probably used it up. It can't last forever. It's like the stuff we use for cleaning computers. It gets real cold when it comes out of the can. Same thing. You probably have to have to refill your AC every now and then if you use it a lot, that just makes sense."
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I went on to explain how it really worked, and he thoroughly understood it. He thought it was pretty cool, even. But how in the world did somebody that bright ever think you could cool off an entire car for years of summer driving like it was some compressed computer cleaner in a can?
You can't fix stupid, but at least you can work with it. Genius is impossible to do anything with.
that's wayyyy more useful than my stuffs. at least mine is just an old laptop running with a webcam. I'd prefer your method. Work has a wireless camera and receivers and other misc X10 surveillance stuff that they replaced, I have been wondering if I can get my hands on some of it.Creature said:I have an internet connected PTZ (pan-tilt-zoom) camera that I've used for security for years, and it happens to be in the same room as the stove, so I can check it remotely. It detects light changes too (they call it motion detection) so if that room catches fire it "should" let me know. Hopefully that never happens.
Handy for checking up on the kids, the cat, girlfriend .. whatever.
Cisco WVC200 (now WVC210) if anyone wants to know. Sample pic ....
Creature said:I have an internet connected PTZ (pan-tilt-zoom) camera that I've used for security for years, and it happens to be in the same room as the stove, so I can check it remotely. It detects light changes too (they call it motion detection) so if that room catches fire it "should" let me know. Hopefully that never happens.
Handy for checking up on the kids, the cat, girlfriend .. whatever.
Cisco WVC200 (now WVC210) if anyone wants to know. Sample pic ....
Danno77 said:now all we need is a servo hooked to the air adjustment that can be controlled via web.
Shari said:You guys are funny! Hubby doesn't rule the stove here - I do. Hubby would either burn the house down or freeze - depending on how he was feeling that day.
Danno77 said:Now, back to having others do stuff for you...I like feeling needed by my wife. I like knowing that I'd be hard to replace, but at the same time I constantly worry about what she'd do without me in case of an accident... I try to think positively, because she is extremely hard working and extremely smart, she just doesn't bother herself with stuff that I take care of.
DanCorcoran said:One concern: the back corners of your stove look like they're about 6 inches from the wall. Does the stove meet minimum clearance requirements? (My guess is that it does, given your attention to technology/detail).
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