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Posted by Chris Leckness on June 16, 2006 – 3:06 pm Share
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What are you going to get your favorite father for father’s day? Well, I’m working backwards by thinking about what I want.I’ve been married for 13 1/2 years to a wonderful lady. We struggled to have our first two children, and turned to high tech for help. Invitro Fertilization and alot of patience, great medical care and a bit of cost helped us produce beautiful offspring.
It was a great surprise when my wife announced that we were having a third child, as we had decided two was plenty, and we didn’t want to go through another round of invitro. The third one came naturally, so now our family is full; 2 parents, 3 kids ages 7, 5 and 3. Two guinea pigs, a dog, and several gold fish round off the family experience.
I love tech toys and tools, and even my first two kids were produced from the latest tech. So what would be an appropriate father’s day gift? I already have two digital cameras and a digital video camera. They may not be the latest ones out, but they do a fine job. I have a laptop. It’s a few years old, but it, too, does everything I need. I really enjoy my Dell Axim x50v with gps and won’t give that up for anything. Hmmm. Love my ipod! Sure, it’s a second gen 20gig model, but there’s nothing wrong with it. It still rocks, even the battery lasts long enough for a good workout. What to get. What to get. What to get.
Big screen TV…check. Surround sound…check. Corvette! Uhhhh, that’s going to have to wait until I win the lottery. Besides, I think we’re talking about father’s day tech gifts, right? UMPC? Too expensive. Are they practical, and where do they fit in the market? I like them even though they’re too small to be laptops and too big to be pdas. I hope they find a place.
I have an electronic drumset that sounds like a real set – the Yamaha DT Express. I know what you think I’m missing, a gaming platform, like an Xbox. But I’m not a gamer. For gaming I’d rather do the real thing, like softball, ice hockey, golf, tennis, basketball – you name it. If I were into gaming we’d be poor! I’m stumped. But all this thinking about me and my gadgets and what I want has me feeling selfish. Is father’s day really about me and how much my family spends on me? Was father’s day created purely for the mass consumption of the latest consumer products, just a holiday to bump up the bottom line of retailers and add to the nation’s growing debt? Are we abandoning the culture of the nuclear family and becoming a collection of individuals? By purchasing and using individualistic items – items meant to be used by one person, such as the ipod, pda, and laptop, we are separating ourselves from each other within the family.
I say enough! I declare Father’s day to be a non-tech day. I don’t want to see any laptops, computers, hi def, wifi anything! I don’t even want any gifts. I just want to have a little barbecue and see the little smiling faces of my kids surrounding me. Technology gets old quickly, but the time with my kids is fleeting.
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