Spare time
The "economic downturn" has hit me. I'm (temporarily) unemployed, giving me more time to devote to classes and developing those websites I've been putting off for so long. Spending time with my kids is a good thing too, but I'm thinking some of us weren't wired to spend quite this much time with them. I love the little buggers, but they can get noisy (4 kids, ranging from 1-5 years old) and it sometimes makes it difficult to concentrate on Algebra or debugging CSS/PHP code. I guess the public library really is still good for something.