On Jul 6, 2006, at 8:07 AM, Jim Sharkey wrote:
There are times when sharing hobbies creates a shudder elsewhere in the household. I started teaching my eight-year-old son how to play Magic:the Gathering about a year ago, and he's taken to it with the kind of enthusiasm you'd expect from a boy his age. My wife, while she loves that we share a hobby, looks at the piles and piles of cards and just shakes her head. And of course it's not so easy on me, as I have to share my cards now. :-)
I installed "Need for Speed: Underground 2" on my IBM laptop (it is MUCH faster than my aging desktop PC), and just about lost use of it for anything other than Ryan's obsession with the game. It is the first "major" computer game I've ever played to completion, and Ryan is not far behind... Peggy finds our obsession with driving imaginary cars in an imaginary city pretty incomprehensible.
On the other hand, he also loves baseball, so at least he gets outside sometimes. The only downside? He wants to learn to pitch, which involves me spending an inordinate amount of time squatting.
I'd be more concerned with his elbow than my knees -- there is a lot of attention being paid to the damage that little league pitchers are doing to their joints. I was lucky in that Ryan took up tae kwon do, which we shared for a while until he dropped out a year ago or so. I've continued and am now a brown belt, a couple of steps (and maybe a year) away from my first black belt. Ryan's shown some interest in returning, especially as he's seen me get further away from his belt level when he bailed. Dave Little Pitchers have Bad Elbows Maru _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
