OMG! I married a geek!

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I'm really starting to worry about my husband. I can't tell you how many times I've come into the room when he's watching television and the show will be something about alien abductions or UFO sightings. I think he might actually believe that a space ship landed at Roswell...

Don't get me wrong...I love science fiction. Star Trek is one of my favorites, but I don't believe for a second that aliens are snatching up people and giving them proctology exams.

And if he's not watching one of these shows...it's professional wrestling!!!!! How could someone so cute and intelligent be such a dork?
 
Oh, believe me. You know nothing of geekdom. My SO paints little teeny soldiers and then plays games with them. Not only that, but he works for the company that MAKES the soldiers and sells them and so we live and breathe this stuff. I have little metal soldiers (I'm calling them that, but it's actually much more complicated) and dice and rule books all over my house.
 
OMG, you guys are hysterical!!

My best friend's husband is 43 and still meets with the guys once a month to play Dungeons and Dragons. LOL! We HAVE to make fun of him but that's our girls' night out so we can't complain too loud!

My boyfriend is a huge hunter which I don't really like but he has his geek qualities, too. He wears socks & tennis shoes on the beach.

I love geeks and dorks.....ALL HAIL THE GEEKS!!! Do you ever notice how the geeks get all the hot women??? Look at Donald Trump!!

Angie
 
D&D?!? Oh that is bad!!!!!

I don't know if anyone ever saw this show, I can't remember what it was called, but it had Christina Applegate starring in it as a divorced mother. She was interested in this really cute guy and he asked her out on a date, to go to a club. Of course, she thought they were going out to a dance bar - but it ended up being a Dungeons and Dragons club meeting. It was hilarious!

I think I tried that game once, but just couldn't get past the utter dorkness of it.
 
I've got all of your beat. My husband is a sports nut. Every Sunday during football season (he is in a fantasy football league) he has to have this tiny minature football on the TV set next to this small whinnie the pooh doll from childhood. If it is not out on Sunday he swears he will lose his game. He calls it he Power of the Pooh. If he works on Sunday he calls to make sure I put them out. A friend of his came over the house while he was not home one day to steal the pooh but couldn't bring himself to do it because he knew how upset my husband would get if pooh turned up missing in action. Now My husband is Nuts. Right!!!! karen
 
I agree. The sports-nut thing isn't geeky. Just strange:p

The game my SO plays is very similar to Dungeons and Dragons (in one version of it there are elves and dwarves, etc.) but played with little models. It's called Warhammer.
 
It's funny when you discover something (or are reminded of it b/c they do it again and again) about your SO that makes you think "Oh my!" BF and I laugh all the time at each other when these things come up.

I think I freak him out the most when I refuse to eat any blue candy..skittles, jelly beans, M&M's, etc. I will just be eating and sort of push those aside and I will look up to find him shaking his head and DYING laughing. He's like "god, you are a strange one."
 
I married a self-proclaimed (and proud of it) geek. He is an Electrical Engineer - what more need I say?

He has 5 computers. That's not a typo - FIVE! Three desktops, and two laptops. A couple of which he built himself. Oh, and that doesn't count the laptop he has for his job. I have a measely ONE computer. Poor me! ;)

He has made his own circuit boards using our bathtub. Nothing like the smell of acid and copper in the bathroom!

He hates to read - UNLESS it's a book about designing circuits or computers or something like that. (The book he is currently reading is called, and I'm not making this up, "Op Amps For Everyone")

He gets really really giddy about new gadgets and technology. He can't fathom that there are people who don't care if they have Dolby Digital Surround Sound in their living rooms. When we built our home last year, he came in and wired ethernet and coaxial cable to every room in the house. (4 ports in each room - except the bathrooms, and I think he regrets not doing the bathrooms - LOL!)

This is what I'm married to. Have pity on me!!! :p
 
Well, the professional wrestling sounds pretty bad to me, but then who am I to judge? I've been known to sit and watch QVC for hours when my brain is too tired to function properly anymore. Maybe your husband hasn't been getting enough sleep and is perpetually tired.

When my DH's brain goes on autopilot, he watches those "boy" movies with lots of action and violence. Really annoying stuff.
 
What does he think about your obsession with exercise though?? eh???? hah???? LOL. Lot of men love that sci-fi. I went as far as Star Trek and never went to any other generation.

It could be worse. It could be drugs. Let him go on his Star Ship Enterprise adventures right in the comfort of his own couch.


~~TyTbody~~
Working towards Perpetual Motion
 
If he did the right kind of drugs, he could go on a Starship Enterprise adventure from the comfort of his own couch without even turning on the TV;)
 
Emily, it sounds like my husband too. Is it really necessary that we have satelite in the kitchen?? I guess it is. I would really like to enjoy dinner with my family instead of having 600 channels in the kitchen!

He has spent days up in the attic, crawling around, almost killing himself for good TV in every room. He talks about TV all the time. And the funny thing is, he hardly watches anything except Sportscenter, sports, and news.

Lori
 
>Emily, it sounds like my husband too. Is it really necessary
>that we have satelite in the kitchen?? I guess it is. I
>would really like to enjoy dinner with my family instead of
>having 600 channels in the kitchen!
>
>He has spent days up in the attic, crawling around, almost
>killing himself for good TV in every room. He talks about TV
>all the time. And the funny thing is, he hardly watches
>anything except Sportscenter, sports, and news.
>
>Lori

Well, I count my blessings that my husband isn't really into sports that much (except college sports, and only if Purdue or WV are playing).

He has definitely spent a lot of time in the attic - he set up a huge HD antenna in the attic, so we can get all the local stations (and by local, I mean within a 200 mile radius) in high-def. We have satellite (thankfully not 600 channels of it though) AND cable tv. Yes, that's THREE types of signals coming into our home. And naturally, he can't watch all of his favorite shows because there just isn't time. So he rigged up our old Tivo unit so that it will record shows without having to pay the Tivo fee. He created a website that logs into this Tivo unit and allows you to browse upcoming shows and select which ones to record. So he can record shows to the Tivo unit from anywhere in the world if there's an internet connection. How dorky is that? LOL!

I won't even tell you about the time he set up the satellite receiver so we could get ALL the premium channels without having to pay for them. Thank goodness he doesn't do that anymore. Although there are other things he does now that I'm not particularly thrilled with. I told him if he gets arrested for whatever it is he's doing, I'm not bailing him out of the slammer. He thinks it's fun to try to "beat the system". He has gotten better though. We do actually pay for all of our satellite and cable now. LOL!

It's just good to know I'm not the only one with a geek for a husband. ;)
 
Thank God for the geeks!!! My DH works in IS and we have 4 computers at home all online with each other (note that I know little about this)! And in the basement is a big box so that we can turn the internet off and on on specific computers (those in the kids' rooms) BUT when I have problems with my compu at work or home, I know where to turn. Honestly, I don't even go to the tech people at work cuz they usually can't help out. I'll call DH first! We give him a hard time about being a computer nerd, but still love him!!!!
 
Shelley I think your dh and mine are twins.

Take a look at my dh. Would you think he'd play with soliders?

My dh has the French Regime, Italian, German, Shaka Zulu's (sp) tribe, British brigade.....and then some. He actually hand painted the Zulu tribe. Some of these regimes he's had as a child. Now in our gym, he has them in the basement, on the side of the wall as you're going down stairs (3 shelves on plexy glass that he cut himself), some are still at his mom's house. All different types of tanks, jeeps. OH, AND GOD FORBID IF ANYONE TOUCHES THEM. Dh will know if a solider (out of his collection of close to a thousand) has been moved.

He has the whole collection of Lord of the Rings, Bruce Lee and the cast from Enter the Dragon--and a minature Mel Gibson from the Patriot.

Everytime we go to the Mall, he's says, "The spirit just told me to go to Toys R Us";-)


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Haydee
 
Same here, lala. Married to a computer nerd and LOVING it. I also call my DH before I call the IT guy at the office. My DH is a dyed-in-the-wool computer nerd whose favorite movie, I kid you not, has always been Revenge of the Nerds.

Hey, I dated some suave, cool guys, and I'm here to tell you that there's nothing like the attentiveness you can get from a true nerd. And having all your computer needs met ain't so bad either. :7 :+ :7 :+
 
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