It’s been nine days since my last blog, which is actually a pretty long time for me. My new child has kept me very busy, and I’ve been putting in a lot of overtime at work.

   I know it sounds weird to put in more time at work after a child is born, but I’m trying to put aside as much money as I can. My wife has been a teacher for the past six years. We actually met while I was teaching the behavior unit at the school where she taught sixth grade. My wife has now decided to be a stay at home mother. I support her decision, but it will be a little difficult.

Last year I left teaching for a job that paid more money. I enjoyed teaching, but I didn’t love it enough to justify the difference in pay. Besides, I love my new job more than I ever could’ve loved teaching.

   Even though my current job pays more than teaching, it doesn’t quite make up for the almost $40,000 my wife earned every year. My wife will continued to receive paychecks until August, so we still have a couple months of two incomes. I am working a lot of OT to make sure we have enough saved to make it through at least the next year.

   Since the pregnancy, we have managed to pay off all of our credit cards, and cover about $10,000 in home renovations. This makes it sound like we have a lot of money. We don’t, we’ve just been living as cheaply as possible. We’ve gotten pretty good at living on less money, so I think we can pull it off if I keep working OT.

  This is why my last blog showed so much disappointment in Sony’s decision to price the PS3 at $600. Even with my wife staying home, my household will earn slightly over $50,000 per year. It seems ridiculous to me that a video game company would make any product that households in our income range would have to think twice about. We could afford $600 if we had to, but in reality we just don’t have to. My wife and child could be provided with a lot more important things for $600 than a videogame system for me.

  I’m still loving my PS2 and PSP though. I just finished Killzone about an hour ago (it took me longer than it should’ve). I thought it was a great game and don’t see why it got some low scores. It’s got me on an FPS kick, which is weird because I never really played them before now. I recently bought Project Snowblind ($9.99) and Serious Sam ($5.29) on clearance, and can’t wait to get to them. I’ve got enough PS2 games in my collection that I haven’t gotten around to playing or beating to last for quite some time.