Monday, February 22, 2010

New Use for the Annoy-A-Tron

The fellows at Think Geek dot com are genius for coming up with the Annoy-a-tron.  It's a little circuit board with two switches.  The first is on-off.  The second is a selector.  It has a magnet on the back to stick to anything metal.  Every 5-8 minutes (specific time is random!) the Annoy-a-tron will send out a little BEEP or BUZZ.  The BUZZ I never use, but the third setting is randomly BEEP or BUZZ.  If you ever heard the thing, you would know why it's called Annoy-a-tron.  For a week now, I had the selector on BEEP.  Location: Lexie's room!  Now at first you might think this is a mean prank to pull on my wonderful daughter, but...if you would see what a total pit her room is, you would know.  I am using the Annoy-a-tron as motivation.  I asked her after about a week of the beeping "What is that beeping noise in your room???"
 
Lexie replied "I don't know, but it's driving me crazy!!!!"
 
"Well, you had better clean out your room so that you can figure out what's making it..." I said to her.
 
"You're right." and she spent 3 hours working on her room yesterday before Logan's Birthday party.  It still needs a lot of work, so I changed from BEEP to BEEP/BUZZ this morning.  That ought to do it...

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