Small town in New England...try to cope with it.

It's raining today and overcast, the temperature dropped to around 58F. Had to take my wife to the outpatient for pain management (back, Sciatica, hip and referred leg pain). She's been pretty much immobile for the past 4 weeks now (hoping a solution can be reached). Treating the symptom versus the root cause will not help the issue.

The kids played some Nintendo Game Cube down stairs - a game that used to play as a kid (RAMPAGE). My daughter's tend to gravitate toward watching the T.V. a lot, where as Aya doesn't watch much T.V., as she explained she doesn't watch much at home.

She seems anxious to do stuff - typical bored teenager, more exaggerated here in this small town and the fact that 58F is cold to her she is confined to the home. I asked her what she does at home in Okinawa. She says she does a lot of shopping at local malls and shops. She said she loves to just hang out on the beach or in the malls with friends.

She comes from a larger populous and is used to lots of things to do in a larger city, but here in this quiet little Podunk town in Massachusetts there isn't all of that and for teenagers even locally - they become bored.

Local teenagers here do any of the items on the list if they can't drive themselves:
- Walk around town
- Read
- Bike and skateboard
- Hang-out at the skateboard park (other side of town)
- Hang out at the basketball park (other side of town)
- Boat and swim (lake near by)
- Fishing
- Surf the web and IM, text message, MySpace and YouTube
- Play PC games: World of Warcraft or WoW, Counter-Strike, Battlefield and more.
- Console game: xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, Sony PlayStation III
- Play in a garage band or attend a jam
- Hang out (anywhere around town, looking menacing)
- Board games and playing cards usually at the bottom of the list

All of which seems boring to them. We get the same old line from our kids: "We're bored", "I'm hyper and don't know why, I just want to do something - go somewhere."

I guess you can say, welcome to the World of Teenagers or WoT. Which is a cruel game of life and pretending you didn't hear what your parents asked of you. ["WoT" = "What?"]

To be continued...

As my main PC is still dead - missing its power supply I haven't been playing any online games. I think I am going through some sort of withdrawl, like a smoker with cigarettes or something.

On the bright side, I actually did more around the home than I had in the past year, as far as unpacking boxes we had in a storage room from when we moved that last 2 times, made office space for Aya, tightened up a wiggly Foosball table, put together shelving - free time can be dangerous. (Need more level 70's !!)