What's your S.O. think of the time you spend online?

Not much. She used to ride me about it until I made her fess up that she'd posted in some ESPN boards after the Kings-Lakers series last year. I do it at work, anyway. The home computer mostly gathers dust.

(The question is what would my employers think....)

Mr. Sozobe knows about us? Oh my.. We'd better shape up eh?

(Psssst, ya dint tell him where i live, didya ? ! ? ! ?)

He sort of takes the whole idea as some kind of a joke. He really has no conception of what I am doing here, nor is he interested. He loves to make remarks about how my butt is becoming square from sitting on the computer chair.

Just tell him to buy a chair shaped like the butt of his dreams.

My husband knows about A2K and Abuzz, has seen both, in fact. Some of the websites I've come across through Abuzz he's enjoyed. Phoenix had a great link to graph paper some months ago. He wanted that on favourites at the office so I e-mailed him the link.

I work at home, so my work day is flexible, it begins when everyone leaves the house in the a.m. and it ends when I go to bed. I check into these sites and play on the computer during my breaks, rarely for more than half an hour at a time.

Mostly I'm on line when he's not here (as in he goes to bed very early and I'm a night person) so he doesn't have any idea what I do. I do share things with him that I think he'd find interesting and he knows about this new sight and such. He doesn't have the patience it takes to read through all these threads any way -- I sent him to GardenWeb once to get some info and it took him forever to weed through and then he never posted anything any way. He's just becoming computer literate -- can now do searches on google and such -- but he's not interested (at least not yet) in anything like this.

My goal is to have 2 computers when we retire to make sure I can go on line when I want to without having to wait for him to finish playing solitaire.

pd, the hubby has tried to give me grief about it a few times but a "Fine, YOU go ahead and stay home full time with the kiddo" is usually enough to set him straight. He is genuinely really busy, and I'm not sure if he would do more here if he had time. We do a little tag-team thing with the computer when we're both home (he has Very Important Physics Emails coming in at all hours of the day) and so he frequently reads whatever happens to be on the screen.

Setanta, he's the Evil Genius, he knows whatever he wants to know. So you be careful. You too, Fishin'.

Craven,

McKenzie, right, same here. I forward him sites ("www.blackpeopleloveus.com") or jokes or useful links or whatnot. Occasionally links to a specific thread. (He spends a lot of his time at work in front of the computer, so we're back-and-forthing via email prolly 20 times a day.)

bandylu, how'd you take so naturally, nay, masterfully to the 'net? Did you have more prior experience than your husband?

Hates it! But then we have 4 puters hook to broadband and 3 surfers

Nope -- I'm just more curious than he is. He's an architect and in today's world, architecture has become computerized, too (AutoCad) but he has no idea how to do it. We have two 'kids' who work for us who do all the computerized drafting -- he still drafts by hand when necessary.

Years ago, when my son bought his first computer (a Commodore), I was the one who read the manual whenever he had a problem he couldn't solve. When he came home from college and set up his computer with internet service in his room, I used to go up to his room at night when he was out (with his permission, of course) so I could play on the internet. I just love all the new horizons it opens up (so does he, but he asks me to explore them for him most of the time instead of doing it himself).

My SO is similar to Phoenix's. He shows very little interest except to make snide remarks. I'm kind of glad that this is something I do that is just mine. <Selfish little bugger, ain't I?>

My husband works weird hours, and often works on Saturday's so I do most of my online stuff while he's not here. Both kids have their own computers, but mine is the only one that's connected to the Internet, so if they need to use it for homework, e-mailing, etc., then I'll get kicked off for a while, but that's okay.

As far as what he/they think about what I'm doing here, they've found interactions that I've been involved in to be interesting, but my son belongs to a history site that's similar to this, and my daughter has her own interests. My husband mostly likes to play those really involved computer games, and he does that on another computer....

bandylu...
My son's first computer was a Commodore 64, and we just sold it, along with a bunch of educational stuff, to a guy that my husband knows. His little kid is now using it. It hadn't been used in years!

My S. O. listens to me a lot (thank you, honey! :-D), as I often have issues that I've been emailing about all day but just, for whatever reason, need to vocalize. So he sometimes gets an earful.

He was at home when Phoenix called and thought I sounded funny, laughing a lot (Phoenix is fun to talk to).

He doesn't post here, but he does lurk. He's one of the hidden users you'll see during most work days, during working hours. He doesn't log in while at home, mainly because I stay logged in and even if I'm offline, I sometimes need to hop on quickly. It's just easier that way.

And no, I ain't tellin' ya his screen name.

PS He joined Abuzz but never liked it. Reports he likes this interface a lot better.

The cats rarely have a problem with it, although they've been know to want to be involved in a few discussions.

quinn...

Just let the cats lay on your lap with their paws on top of your hands while you type...that's what my puppy does. (It's also a great excuse if you have typos. )

yes, it is why I often have spelling errors

ahem

exactly!

She can't believe I do this stuff, I show her some of the neat stuff-just doesn't impress her. She thinks the little bit of this place I've showed her is neater than Abuzz, she saw all the misguided hate over there. I guess in the end she would rather have me do this than go to the bars and strip joints - ha!

BW did you tell her you invited me for Thanks Giving?

My SOs Bean and Carlotta don't seem to notice. Occasionally Carlotta walks across the key board. Bean is usually under foot or in her pillow bed behind the puter.

If I remeber correctly, she was right there beside me at the time. I love this gal after about 5 no goes. I wouldn't keep anything from her-she's the best.

I bet Carlotta punches out some of your best responses!