Unexpected college challenge

My son’s headed to college in about a month, and I’m realizing just how much I’m going to miss being able to discuss purely geeky things with him. My wife’s eyes will glaze over instantly when I tell her about the cool process I got working on AWS with Vagrant, Ansible, and…whatever, she stopped listening at “process” anyhow.

Darien didn’t necessarily get it, but he listened, sometimes just politely, but generally with interest, and he asks questions. And he poked around with enough things out there that he has been finding new and interesting topics too. He also asked enough questions to drive new approaches and ideas into the topic. He’s always been my geek buddy, but it’s only been the past couple of years where he’s been at a high enough level of knowledge that any topic was fair game, and spending so much time at home this past year, I expect to be able to talk with him almost any time.

My daughter doesn’t realize what she’s in for as I seek out a new outlet. I presume that I’ll be spending more time in the robotics team’s “chatter” channel on Slack too.

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