My parents complain all the time, but I multitask to make them happy, and they seem to enjoy it. I sit at the computer in the dining room, while they watch TV in the living room, I yell out suggestions, comments, and witticism from my swivel chair. That way I can interact with both AT the same time, provided my well loved (at least in my family) non-sequitor humor while writing music to lyrics by a net buddy who lives a few thousand miles away (which is what I'm doing now, actually)!

--Mbo