My Analog Wife

I love gadgets. I'd love to get every gadget I could lay my hands on. However, considering that usually also involves giving up money, my wife would not be so happy about that. Not only does my wife have an aversion to throwing money out the window (imagine that), she also has an aversion to gadgets. While I'd like to take advantage of everything modern life has to offer, my wife is happy to continue doing things the way she's always been doing them.

I have an analog wife.

I'm sure my experience is not all that different from many other guys. As the old saying goes, the only difference between men and boys is the price of their toys. And I love expensive toys.

I am not sure why I love gadgets so much... No, why I need gadgets so much. Perhaps it's because of my technical background. While nothing new to kids today, I was programming computers at the age of 12. I worked my way through college by computer programming on the PLATO system developed at the University of Illinois. (I had an undergraduate research assistant position which covered my tuition and paid me on top of that.)

Anyway, since I have done such a poor job of writing a blog to keep track of my life, perhaps if I put it in context of the challenges I face of having an analog wife, I may become more motivated to keep an updated blog. Let's see how it goes.

Disclaimers, etc., etc.

First, I have to admit that I am fortunate being married to Kyoko. Since I love shopping and expensive toys, if I would have married someone who shares the same passion, we would probably be about a million dollars poorer at the moment and I may have to be working until about 80 to afford retirement.

Considering such the huge credit card debt I had when we got married, we are doing fine now.

Of course, I still wish I could have more gadgets...