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People have made comments about how many laptops/computer equipment we have around the house. And it's true. It looks like Dell came here and shit all over my house.

(three random laptops)

(Two laptops and a wireless keyboard to use for the one hooked up to the TV which is on the shelf in the picture above.)


(My work laptop)


(Mike's gaming PC)

By most people's standards, our house has a surplus of electronic media. We have two XBoxes, both of which are hooked up to a server in the basement. Because the Xbox works as a media center, we can stream movies, music, and such from that server onto our TVs. Our server is 1.5 terabyte NAS that we back everything up to with a three-drive redundant RAID, and contains all the pictures, videos, and documents from the last few years. Then we have an additional outside commercial service from Mozy that we pay a small fee and they store all of our data offsite in the event of fire, theft, etc.


(Our basement server)

We each have a work laptop, and we each have a personal laptop. Our TV in the living room is also hooked up to an additional laptop in which we can browse the internet, etc. And there are two laptops that just float around that Mike constantly messes with. That is seven laptops, two docking stations, two PCs, two widescreen monitors, one big screen TV with a built-in entertainment system, and a partridge with a PDA in a pear tree.


(The TV room: the Wii and another Xbox is upstairs and the Gamecube is not currently hooked up)

We each have our own computer workstations downstairs as well, which I use to actually work and he uses to game, when he has the time. Both kids rooms have video monitors. We have every gaming console system and even an arcade dance pad for Dance Dance Revolution (which by the way is exceedingly fun AND good exercise).



(My workstation)


(Mike's desk, which if you look closely, you'll see ANOTHER PC box off to the right.)

In normal people's homes, the clutter you see around is baby gear, papers, magazines, books, clothes. In our house, it's laptops, wires (OMFG, the wires!), adapters. And though I love the convenience of having a Giant Computer Geek for a husband and all of the electronics, this is still my most favorite thing:


(I found him! I still haven't gotten to the store to buy Tassimo packets, so my old friend Coffee Pot and I got reacquainted. I think it's love all over.)

P.S. We are not rich by far and many of these electronics were acquired over a period of years, some before I was even around to yell at him when he walked through the door with a Best Buy bag. He's also very good at fixing things so can buy them cheap and in parts and fix them.

P.P.S. If there's ever a disaster, come to our house because if you think Mike's penchant for electronics is bad, wait until you see what the need to be prepared has done to him. Think survival gear, first aid kids, stocked gallons of water and a generator in our garage.

I'm married to The Biggest Geek of All Time. Thankfully, he's cute: