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Family Portrait 2This time last year, most of my non-work time was spent alone hunched up with my laptop on the sofa, playing games or doing emails etc.

Tonight, when I get home, my wife will be on our laptop cranking out another 3000 words for her NaNoWriMo project, while I’ll be watching TV and occasionally waiting for her to finish.

In about three months time, we’ll be trying to juggle laptop time (as I have termed it) with WeaponX time. Although, naturally, WeaponX will get the lion’s share of attention.

But since then, I’ve been wondering about how other people transition from being alone with a laptop, to being a couple with a laptop, to being a family with a laptop. Cory Doctorow has an interesting article on how he juggles fatherhood with laptop time – mainly by letting his daughter watch things on the laptop.

This sounds like a straightforward idea, but then at the back of my mind, I can’t shake the feeling that time spent on a laptop is time spent away from my wife or my future family, even if we are physically all together sat on the same sofa… whereas at least if we’re watching TV together, we’re watching TV together.

How do you tackle that dual need between “together time” and “laptop time”?

Mirrored from almost witty.

Date: 2010-11-03 12:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aiela.livejournal.com
We both have laptops, and often use laptop time as TV time. We will stop and pause the tv or look up from the computer to discuss things we've seen/read or whatever.

We're both fairly independent, though, and don't have a need to spend mountains of time just Focused On Each Other. Being in the same room is often just fine in the evenings.

We could never share a computer, though. I have no idea how couples do that. Even if I'm knitting or playing Rock Band, I often have the laptop open, scrolling Twitter or watching for emails. For me, the laptop is often just background noise to whatever else I'm doing.

Date: 2010-11-05 05:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hellmutt.livejournal.com
What's the NaNo project? *nosy*

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