My husband and I have played a lot of computer games together. We also have kids and like to play something casually for an hour or so after they have gone to bed. I would advise you to avoid 1st person shooters, real time strategy or anything that pits you against each other. I learned very quickly that I didn't like being "attacked" in games by my husband.

One of the first games we played was The Longest Journey. We sat next to each other and took turns controlling the mouse. It has a great plot and is an adventure / puzzle game, which might be a good introductory game.

Another really fun one for me was Terraria, which is sort of like a building game crossed with a side-scroller that allows for multiplayer.

My husband and I have been playing a lot of Torchlight II lately, which is an rpg that can be played cooperatively. You could also try Diablo 2, which is in the same vein, but I think Torchlight is more approachable.

Lastly, I really liked playing Civ IV cooperatively.

Good Luck!

I grew up in KC, went to collage at RPI in New York and spent some time working in Boston. I've done a lot of traveling both inside and outside the U.S. and I think Kansas City gets a bum rap.

Many people from the coasts have such bias against KC (and all the other cities in "fly-over" country), but it is actually a pretty hip city. I've eaten some of the best food of my life here and here. The Chicago Tribune recently called Kansas City "America's Next Great Cocktail City. We have tons of fine art theaters, including the new Kauffman Center which is considered one of the most technically advanced performance halls in the nation. The lack of traffic and great roads make it easy to get around. I go out far on the town far more often than when I lived near Boston.

Kansas City also has one of the best academic medical centers in the country and is also one of the highest ranking cities for smart phone app creation. It is consistently ranked on of the most affordable places to live among .

Sure, the rural parts of Missouri and Kansas tend to be a bit bible-belt backward, as they are everywhere in the country, but Kansas City and it's surrounding suburbs are decidedly more liberal. It is great place to live and I'm tired of people who haven't lived here recently, much less visited saying otherwise. If you have a knee-jerk negative reaction when you hear the name Kansas City, then maybe you aren't as open minded as you could be.

That is a good point. His opponent is Claire McCaskill and you can donate to her campaign here: http://clairemccaskill.com/

His opponent is Claire McCaskill, who billed the state for some personal political trips she took and also didn't pay personal property tax on the airplane she was using for the trip. She says both things were just an oversight...

But the thing that is _really_ wrong with her is that she is running for election in Missouri, which leans Republican.

I do understand your point. I have a biochemistry background so I do understand antibiotic overuse is a problem. I didn't mean to "take you down a notch" so much alert you to the fact that there might be more to the story than you were thinking about.

I was on chemo and had a suppressed immune system for a couple of years. I slathered both myself and my toddler with antibacterial sanitizer every time we went in public. I got lots of disapproving looks from people who I know thought I was "needlessly" using it, but better that than catching the flu or pneumonia which my body wouldn't have been able to fight off.

_Lots_ of people have compromised immune systems for one reason or another. Please keep that in mind the next time you see someone using that hand gel. It is very likely that he or she has an incredibly good reason for doing so.

This is one of the most offensive questions I have read in a long time. Wow. Have you considered what it must be like to live with a terrible illness?

I don't have RLS, but I can promise you that any person with a nasty chronic disease has devoted more time than you can imagine trying to figure out how to solve their problem. They probably spend most of their free time researching and coming up with ways to alleviate just a teeny tiny portion of the misery that they are experiencing. They have spent hours talking to doctors and all of their free time on message boards talking to other people in the same situation.

Before you give random medical advice to someone about a disease they have lived with for _years_, consider that their life probably revolves around it and if 'doing exercise outdoors' was a solution, they would certainly already be doing it.

Good thought. What about paying the parents if the their kid gets good grades?