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So, it seems that working a full time job (shift work), and looking after a baby when not working leaves very little time for keeping up with things on the interwebs. I'm sure I could manage to keep up with things if I could muster the energy to be bothered, but that all seems just a little bit too much like hard work! Now some might say I'm being lazy, that I should be getting off my ass and doing stuff. To be honest though, all I have to say to them is "meh" lol, I just don't find this stuff on the interwebs as being anywhere near as important as hanging out with my bubs. Even when I'm not holding bubs and am free to do stuff, I'd still rather blob and watch they telly. I'm on computers all day at work, getting on them again at home just doesn't seem like fun at all! Even my xbox360 is feeling rather neglected. But it all just seems rather pointless and not worth the effort right now. My son is all consuming in my mind, I miss out on everything he is doing while I am at work, so feel stink when not paying full attention to him when I am home. It just seems all so weird, cos I love playing games on my xbox, I love messing round with geeky or techie programs on my laptop, or reading up on the latest tech. But all of that takes a back seat when I am around my son, no matter what mood I am in. Now I spent a few hour playing round on my lappy the other day, while staying up late after my wife and son had gone to bed (preparing for a run of night shifts), but I couldn't focus on anything for long. I ended up flicking my focus between reading tech & funnies websites on my lappy and watching worlds dumbest and history docos on TV. I didn't even feel like flicking my xbox on. I know both my wife and son were in bed, but even though they were sleeping, I still just wanted to go hang out with them even though I knew if I went to bed I wouldn't have made it through my nightshift awake. Now falling asleep at work isn't really the best option, considering my job has a fair amount of importance to it (for some reason national communications infrastructure is pretty important) so I forced myself to stay up and even though I was rather bored (despite having a wealth of techie and geeky things I could have been doing) I really just couldn't be bothered. I know all the geeks and techies out there probably want to lock me in the stocks and hurl rotten produce at me for letting the team down, but sorry guys, family wins over techie, family wins over geek. And hey, it's not all that bad really, I get to be a kid all over again when having play time with my son!! And when he's older I can enjoy him handing me my ass on a platter on the xbox, having him school me on all the new tech coming out, and having him prove me wrong about some scientific thing. Yes you heard me right, I am looking forward to my son being smarter than me, being better at games than me, and just owning me at anything we do together. But that's one of the best things of fatherhood, not just passing your knowledge on to your kids, but teaching them how to be better. So really, in the grand scheme of things, I am doing right by the geek and techie team, as I am teaching a future uber-geek, uber-techie all he needs to know!