Increasingly Geekier: part 2

It appears I'll soon be acquiring a second computer at home... There's one going for an OK price, and I should be able to scrape the cash together to get it.

You see, my son's discovered FreeCiv, and online Civilization-type game. My own fault, a friend recommended it and I installed it. But now I can't get anywhere near my computer! It's holidays, and if he's not on the computer with FreeCiv, he's on it with Adventure Quest - or on the PS2. Add to that an internal chat network recently established (and highly addictive - hence the lack of blogging here on some days), and I'm constantly fighting him for computer time.

So a second computer it has to be. Right about when they start to charge us an increased rate for electricity...

Anway, with an additional machine, it means I can sit and fiddle a bit more. I can finally get around to all those things I need to learn and do, without having to fight off the kid every 5 minutes. I can stick it in MY room and get some privacy. I can even get up in the middle of the night to write something, blog something or chat to someone without waking him up too!

You know, when I was young, there was such a thing as spending your entire holidays outdoors....