My husband is suffering from Tim Allen Syndrome, the poor thing, and I think many others are suffering as well. It\u2019s worse than the Swine Flu and a tad bit more annoying. Although if they keep talking nothing but swine flu non-stop on my television then TAS will be quickly moved down the list.<\/p>\n
I have been aware of his symptoms for a while now as he exhibited the classic \u201cbigger is better\u201d mentality of most married men in their mid 30\u2019s or older. I once asked him for a scoop of ice cream and he brought back an entire ice cream cake. I told him I\u2019d like a few kids and we\u2019re expecting our sixth. I tell him we need some meat from the store and he comes home with half a cow. You get the idea. He tends to go a bit overboard. Then this weekend he decided that what I really needed (and I don\u2019t remember even wishing for it) was a second monitor for our computer.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe works really hard,\u201d he reasoned, \u201cand this would help her multitask.\u201d \u201cNow you can check email, and blog at the same time,\u201d he told me with a smile. It\u2019s all for me, isn\u2019t it? <\/p>\n
Are you kidding me? It\u2019s all about his being able to play Star Wars Battlefront and work from home at the same time. I\u2019m onto his evil plan. I know the whole \u201cmultitasking\u201d thing was a semi-clever ruse to butter me up and convince me to let his toy stay on my desk and block my view of the backyard and the children\u2019s school desks. We just can\u2019t let the Rebel scum take over the Universe from the Empire while doing actual work, can we? Of course not.<\/p>\n
I find the whole TAS thing very amusing, especially the part where the man who works 60+ hours a week to support our family thinks he has to justify bringing home a monitor that he got for free so that he can relax on a Sunday afternoon. But I\u2019m not going to tell him that. I like it when he thinks he\u2019s being clever and getting his way and avoiding a fight (that would never happen). He grins like a schoolboy who\u2019s just snuck a pile of Oreos. <\/p>\n
FWIW, two monitors are not that great. It\u2019s annoying and hurts my eyes, and gives me headaches from information overload. I would never tell him that. I can\u2019t let on that he might be superior in some way. I would lose my edge and that would benefit no one. So I only turn on one screen, use it as I always have, and turn the other to the side so that I can keep an eye on #2 and #3. The thing about Tim ALlen Syndrome is that boys catch it from their fathers, so I need to pay a little closer attention to those two.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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