My wife is a scrapbooker. Maybe your wife, girlfriends, significant other is too. I'm sorry, I understand, I'm there too. We hear a lot about WoW widows and such, but we husbands of the scrapbookers, we have it just as rough. Garages, spare rooms, closets filled with paper scrapbooking materials. Papers, ribbons, 60 different types of scissors, embellishments, buttons, etc. Then comes the digital scrapbooking and you have Photoshop, drawing tablets, memory, external hard drives...
Recently, I was enslaved by my wife to help her launch her own digital scrapbooking online store. I use "enslaved" lightly because I have no other word to describe the horrors I have seen. We need a better word for the kind of labor a tech husband does for his wife. Somebody get on that. During the course of my "enslavement", I have spent the last 3 weeks getting a linux server (hosted by GoDaddy) up and running with her blog, site entrance, photo gallery and zen-cart store up and running. I've become efficient in many web technologies that I used to ignore (I'm an ASP.NET guy during the day). I've walked through valleys and mountain peaks of CSS, HTML, PhP and Zen Cart should be a language and technology unto itself. Oh the amazing joys of customizing Zen Cart.
But, tonight. Tonight it is all over. Her store is officially launched, my marriage is still intact and maybe NOW I can play with XNA a little more...