So, back to the thankful posts. I started writing out today's, but it got too long, so you get a blog about it instead. Lucky you!
Today, I'm thankful for my house's intercom system. It's not something I would have shopped for in a house (not even this, our 7th one!). I remember noticing it in the online pictures when we were house-hunting from Lexington though. I remember my teenage daughter immediately asking if she could plug her iPhone into it to play her music throughout the house. But the house was built in 2008 as a model home, so that was doubtful.
We don't use the intercoms much to talk to folks at the door or to talk to each other from different rooms from the house (although of course that's possible). But, it reminds me of my childhood. Despite them not being as much like this today, I suspect I got my love of tech and gadgets from my parents, because our house had some very cool features for the late 70s/early 80s, and the one that was the most novel and fun (because let's just admit that an 8 or 10-year-old could care less about a whole-house built-in vacuum) was the intercom system. We had built-in walkie-talkies, for heaven's sake! Find me a kid that doesn't think this is cool, I double-dog dare you! We could play the radio in almost every room in the house.
I guess the novelty wore off after a while, but that intercom system was certainly showed off to every visitor that I remember growing up. At some point, it stopped working, and those poor intercoms just started collecting dust, but I find it very cool that our house now has something so reminiscent of a very techie part of my childhood.
Come to think of it, we also stayed pretty up-to-date with the gaming systems of the day, including having a Pong system. We were a pretty high tech family!
The main unit of my 2008-vintage intercom system came with a built-in 6-disc CD changer. Ah, 2008, not so long ago, but just before everybody actually played all their music from smartphones. Sorry, kids, no smartphone/mp3 player input for you.
Ah, but, that 6-disc CD changer was broken, and we just happen to have a good builder standing behind our house and repairing things (thank goodness due to some bigger issues we quickly ran into). After several months of searching for a replacement CD changer and even trying the one used one they were able to track down that still didn't work, I got a call asking if we'd mind having a single CD player with an auxiliary input for things like mp3 players. After careful thought and consideration (not), I jumped at that. It cost our poor builder another $800, but we now have exactly what we thought would be so cool when we saw that picture of our house online.
Sometimes things just work out, and I can see that happening with ever step of our most recent move, down to the intercom system in our house. I'm not sure why we've been this fortunate, but I am definitely thankful. Now, excuse me while I get back to work and blast some Bryan Adams through those intercom speakers ; )
Main intercom unit similar to the one I had growing up
Our main intercom unit in my house today
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