What is with kids these days. I’ll be honest too, I’m talking about my own kids and the kids of my friends. They’re just not willing to work for something anymore are they? I mean they don’t even play hard either. What’s the deal?
When I was a kid I spent hours upon hours trying to get past a single bad guy or some weird level on Nintendo Mario Brothers or some other game. I remember my brothers and I playing Asteroids on the Atari 2600 for 9 hours straight to set things.
Both my kids got Nintendo DSi’s for Christmas and I swear I spent most of the day Christmas being asked to get the kids past some step or stage on their new game. Finally I’d had enough!
I told them both I was no longer helping them "play" their games. Part of the fun of a game is conquering the game itself. Spending that time working on something that’s difficult and not easy to come by. That’s what video games are all about right?
I was helping a friend this evening who had questions about buying a new desktop PC for his family. He was interested in recommendations on brands. At first I was thinking he wanted something just for the kids, but then found out the ultimate goal is to have something capable of doing photo editing and management and potentially even some video editing.
My original thoughts were a real basic, bottom line computer that would be more than enough for the kids to use for their homework and general Internet access. I expected the price to be less than $400 for a decent machine.
After looking at a workhorse of an HP machine though, we were tricking it out to have a beast of a processor and 8GB of RAM, above average graphics card and some other features and it was still going to come in right at $1000.
I’m sure with a bit more shopping, we could find something even cheaper with similar features, but I was just generally impressed with the overall cost for a great, new PC. Makes me really start thinking about finally getting around to replacing my own family’s desktop PC with something to serve more as a our media and communications hub for the family in the living room.
We’ll see what 2010 brings in the next couple of months and go from there.
I hadn’t even thought of this until earlier this evening when someone mentioned it. Ten years ago tonight the world was worried about what exactly would happen when the calendar flipped over and we switched from the year 1999 to 2000.
I’m trying to remember back in that time and I don’t think much of anything really happened did it? It didn’t impact my world really. We had a month old baby in our home and were adjusting to a variety of things.
Was it really 10 years ago?
Time flies doesn’t it?
What’s the biggest worry for us in 2010? I’d say the economy is still an issue. What’s going to happen with nationalized healthcare will be another question that’s up in the air. Then there’s still the looming potential of some kind of terrorist threat on American soil again.
I think I might prefer the Y2K issues honestly.
As a friend of mine said earlier this evening, may the best of 2009 be the worst of 2010. Let’s hear it for a great year to come and looking back 365 days from now and thinking how little we really had to worry about when it was all over.
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