The Purpose.

     If you're not aware of the this, you've been living under a rock, I'm surprised you're on this blog, and I'm going to reward your readership: You can watch TV on your computer for free. You don't even have to forward emails or fill out credit card offers. Just go to Fox.com, CBS.com, ABC.com, NBC.com, USANetwork.com, or "whatever company".com that produces your shows. Even better, most of you will be able to hook your laptops up to your giant living room flat screen LCD TV and watch your favorite shows with minimal commercial interruption, and usually in HD. You're welcome. And like so many things on this blog, you may be asking what this has to do with being a father. Good question.
     Catie wanted to hook up her computer so we could watch the last three episodes of "Pushing Daisies" (Which now is an ironic name). Usually, I'm in charge of this. Not because I'm a guy, but because she doesn't know how to do it. As I'm sure I've said, my wife is brilliant. How she has so much trouble matching colors and plugging in wires, I'll never know. Then she warned me, "This is the only reason I keep you around. Well this and your sperm, and I don't need that anymore. You sure you want me to learn how to do this?"
     There was a point in time when men worked long, grueling, terrible jobs to bring home minimal income to women who worked twice as hard but complained about it half as much. Right now, my wife earns twice my wage, works three times harder, and then she takes care of me. Then it dawns on me, she could totally figure this out. The electronics, the computer problems, setting the clock on the microwave, these things are well within reach of her mental abilities. So why does she ask me to do it? Maybe it's because she want's me to know I'm important. Maybe not important in general, but to her specifically. I love that. And I can't wait for my kid to experience it. I just hope she hasn't wasted all her patience on me...