We Interrupt "When Someone You Love Has A Blog" -- A Husband's Response

Sigh. First it was Baby E, and now his dad. Everyone wants their say on this blog. Nothing in this house is private, and my husband, along with everyone else in this home, follow this blog's posts, since this blog is pretty much 99.9% our family's blog.

I awoke to the following note on our kitchen counter, which prompted today's post.

Today, since we run a kingdom that is fair, we feature, "Tech Support Responds" as part of our When Someone You Love Has A Blog, Part I,  Part II, and now, our "surprise" guest contribution to the series, "Live-In Tech Support,"   as prepared by The Emperor.

Blogging: A Husband's Response

• Beloved blogger, [wife], shall not address husband as "tech support."
• Said that, "tech support" is not available during husband's wage earning hours. As in, no phone calls to work asking how to embed a YouTube video on her post for that day.  It may be difficult for her to believe, but that is not what is known as "Level 1-Emergency." 
• Tech Support's hours must be respected. No pre-alarm clock wake ups. Whether comments are appearing or not for her post that day, it can truly wait. In other words, please let me sleep.
• Said that, do not abuse on site tech support.

• As much as blogging has made for a much happier wife [beloved blogger], said person must still engage in her real life relationships, and look up from the computer as well as remove fingers from keyboard when husband/significant other is attempting conversation. Time together must be spent, drive through McDonald's does not count.
• The member in the household who clothes, feeds, and provides shelter should not have to wait in line or take a number to use the computer. Do you all like the computer? Good. Remember who brought it home. 
• Beloved blogger [wife] must provide evidence of at least attempting to apply herself and figure out how to perform a task on blogger either through BloggerHelp or by googling. Same as I have to do. (as I've said before, there is no "secret code" that I know when I google problem solving situations and sites. )
• Last note to wife/beloved blogger, "with 25 years of professional work experience, why don't you listen to me when I suggest  changes to your copy? I'm not just here for fodder."

In summary, to all beloved blogger's support staff, when you think of calling your blogger out about her time spent away from the family, recalling fondly the days of pork tenderloin and glazed carrots, think of your wife's/beloved blogger's happiness. As the wife's/blogger's happiness goes, so goes the household.

Readjust your thinking.

A bowl of cereal for dinner surrounded by your family and served with a happy smile and warm laugh tastes better than any 7 course meal eaten alone in the finest restaurants of Paris, HongKong, Brazil, Amsterdam, Italy, India, Sydney, or Spain.   

Believe me, I've had both.