Wii, Me and My TV - 2010 Tribute, Part 6

This is the first time I a m writing from my wife's computer so please excuse any smelling pistakes. If I were writing this from a Balckberry I would have asked for Fat Fingered Erros to be Exused but this is quie the opposite. My wife's new cpomuter is a 17" monitored monster so I am literally running from one kwy to another in order to write tihs piece. I will try to feliver this without getting tired...

As I write this, my son, myself and my wofe are seated left to right on our beds and each have a laptop our laps, doing one thing or he other. I must say this is one of the accomplishments of 2010, not only to have a PC for each of us but also the fact that I was able to convomce my son to become the second owner of my wife's old laptop and that he readuly agreed without making any fuss. Full credit to him for that. Let me also give myself some credit here for getting my wife a 17", Intel i3 Core, 4 GB, 500 GB Dell Inspiron for jher birthday, which passed reently and about which I have already wrriten and am nopt going to waste anyu more time about.

Just to c;arify one additional point, my son is working on the computer he inherited from my wife and my wife and I swapped laptops today because she is preparing for a session coming ip and needed some specific information that I had on my laptop. That brings me to the real reason for this blog and all I have been doing so far is rambling.

My wife is travelling out of town later this week for a session she needs to deliver. As my son has time off from school for the holiday season, we had initially pondered thta we would all go by car, spend a couple of days out of town and return, but as she has been suffereing from a back ailment for a few days now, her doctor today ruled out teh possibility of car travle and strictly mentioned that she should fly. So we booked tickets for her to fly out WEndesday night and reytun Thursday night.

Now hat means that the boys will be alone at home. My son does not savor that a lot. I travle a lot and he can stay woithout me but he will never stay without his mother. This year was a landmark year in that for the first time, he slept in a different roon than us when we were recently visiting family in a different town, becuase he wanted to be with his cousing. So when we askjed him about his mother's upcoming trip, he readliy agreed that she alone should go given her heatlh and thet we should stay back.

While I was happy at this mature behavior, I was also not feeling food about disappointing him. He loves road trips and plane trips, more so. So just to make him feel happy, I asked him if he wanted to join his mother on her trip. I told him I would buy him a ticket on the same flight as her and that he could stay with out friends while she was out doing her thing. "No Dad, I will stay here", he readily said. My heart really swelled his proide at his concern to save me a co0upla hundred dollars and I told him how proud I was of him. And we let the matter rest at that point in time.

I was not convinced however and a little later, when we had finished dinner and were lazing on the couch, I asked him the same question again. He spontaneously refunsed the offer. At this point, it hit me. He would enjoy the plane ridfe and all that, but he would probably get bored at our friends' place, especially when my wife was away doing her own thing. "So is it becaue you dont want tto stay away from your Wii?", I asked him. "Kinda", he said. My wife felt rather sad because he chose the Wii over her and prodded him further. "Don't you like me? Don't you want to go with me?", she aksed.

"I like you ma but we need some Appa and Son lonely time", was his disgised response. "I don't see that happenning at all", my wife responded. "All I can see happening is Appa will be lonely in his own world and you will be lonely with your Wii and TV! Your dad does not even care what you do so he is going to be happy so long as yout stay out of his hair. But if I was at home I would never let you play all day. May be I should give you some homework before you go", she said and then completed her monologuie turning in my direction. "And if he doesn't complete the work I give him, I will hold you responsible. You will not get any food for a few days", was the empty threat she closed with.

I really admire my wife. She is spending her life's enerfy on making my son an intellectual super star who can sing Indian Classical Music, can break 2 inch think pine boards in Karate, will start a company that makes cars that will run on bio-fuel and do many many more things in this one life. And while doing all this, she has to cope with me, who is hell bent on letting my son be what he wants to be. To let him do only what he wants to do, whether it is Karate, cricket or climbing a tree!

I am sorry Pondatti. We both love you adn will do anything for you, we will pray that your session goes really well, will frop you at the arport and come back and picl you too, but just whjile you are gone, pleeeeeeeeeeeeease, let us be...

Just before I started writing this pieve, my son asked me how one writes a blog and before I could finish moine, he has used his gmail ID to create a Blogger account and has already published his first post... (http://tejaslkaushik.blogspot.com)

God thank you so much for my wonderfuil wife, my super awesone son, his Wii and TV...