Preparing for my first born baby:
For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Jeff Navarro
a.k.a. “office tech guy #2.” (tech guy #1 being our I.T. manager). I keep
CAD, Revit and the like running smoothly in our office as well as work on
various project in the office. With that, I’m also a technology junky;
what’s new, what’s hot, megapixels, terabytes… speed, speed, speed! Now,
I rarely have the opportunity to put my addiction to good use; but when I’m
given clearance to research or buy technology for home, watch out! My
wife and I are expecting our first born baby this December and preparing
for her arrival has been relatively easy so far, at least from my
perspective. I’m asked to look at colors or patterns and go through baby
stores looking for things we might need or want to register for. No big
deal.
During one of these trips we came across the baby monitor
section. I’m thinking its radios or walky-talky like devices, easy.
Oh no! It’s full on color cameras with built in two-way radios, night
vision, heat sensors, humidity sensors, color displays, and on and on… I
start salivating thinking of what I can do with this! I turn to my wife
calmly and say, “I’ll take care of baby monitors.” She gives me a smile
and we move on through the store.
When we get home, it’s on! I first start looking at
surveillance systems. Not baby monitor from the kids store, but full on
security IP camera systems with surveillance servers. Can I get a system
where I can mount multiple cameras in the room? How about the front door
and dog yard? Can I access it from my iPhone and iPad? Do the
camera mounts swivel? What about zoom and night vision? Ooh, looks like
I’ll need to upgrade our home server! How much more hard drive space can
I pack in a new server? Personal cloud storage? $$$$$! My
brain is jumping from one thing to the next and soon I’m not even looking at
cameras anymore. I’m wondering what other personal toys I can squeeze into
this camera thing. Jackpot!
An hour or so into my scheming, my wife walks in and asks,
“how’s it going? Find anything we can use?” I reply, “yea, but it
might cost more than we thought. Might need to set aside some money next
month for this one.” She gives me a crooked smile and walks away saying,
“keep looking.” I continue upon my quest. I will not fail!
Not more than five minutes later my wife comes back.
My brain is on overload with the possibilities and my hands are on my
forehead. I look distressed so she says, “how about this one? It
has audio and night vision with a monitor so we don’t need to use our
phones. Just what we are looking for, got good reviews and it’s
cheap.” She then asks what I’ve been looking at and why it cost so
much? Busted!
Next month’s assignment: Baby room designs and
colors… with Revit daylight simulations and 3D Studio Max renderings!
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