Day 7

I am married to a very smart man. I'm not just saying that because this week we celebrate our anniversary and I am trying to earn brownie points with Steve. I mean it. He's way scary smart.  He deals in virtualizations, complex systems analysis, infrastructures and more on a daily basis. He's a geek. I mean that in the most respectful, loving, honoring way possible. He's also very humble and unpretentious! I love this about him. He will help anyone who asks with any technical, computer related issue even if it is just basic stuff that he never really has to think about or do anymore.

Most of the time he talks about stuff that he is working on and I have no clue, not even the slightest, what he is saying but his excitement for what he does makes me excited to listen. I usually don't ask him to teach me to do something computer related, I just ask him to do it. However, when I was talking to him about what my "first" for Sunday could be, he suggested that he teach me how to update the ROM on my Droid phone. He got really excited about it and even told me about CyanogenMod, which is both a modification and a person. Also on a geek side note; apparently Cyanogen, the person, is part of a major coupe this past week on the part of Samsung because they hired this mastermind. (You feel smarter now too, don't you?!)

Steve explained that even just knowing the term "cyanogenmod" would give me "street cred". Today I tested his theory by bringing it up to a guy at Starbucks who I know is all about his Droid. The minute I mentioned "CyanogenMod" his face lit up and he started babbling about the specs and so on... I didn't really listen but I smiled, because I did not know that "street cred" was important until THAT moment when I gained it!

Day 2

COD. Today I played Call of Duty (COD) for the first time in my life. It doesn't sound life changing, some days my firsts won't be, but although not life changing it was a fun experience that I got to share with my youngest son David.

As a mom of three boys (now all teenagers) it is hard to find things that they really WANT to do with me, one on one, that doesn't involve moans, groans or sighs. So, today when I asked David if he would like to teach me to play COD, it made my heart smile when he excitedly jumped up to grab the controllers and plopped down on the couch next to me.

After handing me a controller David began rambling off instructions and tips. He promised he wouldn't "kill" me right off the bat and he kept that promise. He was very patient with me as I tried to negotiate the controllers and all ten, TEN!!! buttons, knobs, flicker, do-hickey thingamabobs that had to be manipulated ALL AT THE SAME TIME, oh AND watch the screen. The top of the screen, not the bottom, because that was not my guy, the top. 

Let's just say this, gaming is NOT my thing. But, it was fun. The best part of the experience was just getting to sit shoulder to shoulder with my son and really kind of marvel at how his brain works; detailed and precise (he will be an incredible engineer one day). 

I'm a girl, so I crave face time, but guys are wired differently, they don't need face time, they need shoulder time and in this house full of boys {Steve included} I've got plenty of opportunities for that!

Steve arrived home at the end of our gaming experience, as I was ready to call it quits, and confiscated David's controller. He thought it would be fun to play me. He was just a little too eager to take my guy {me} out and I discovered that if I held one of the knobby thingamjigs to the side my guy would look up to the ceiling and spin around and around and around... wheeeeeeeeee! Game over.