My Life of Duplicity – Finally Over

For the last three months, I have been living a double life.

By day, I was a mild mannered husband, trying to balance sleep and game playing.

However, at night, I was Geek Gig Preparer!

I was preparing a secret concert for my wife for her birthday. And I planned it three months in advance. And it was stressful. Stressful because I knew that I had to watch everything I said. Stressful, because I had to be cryptic in my tweets or status updates. In fact, I just didn’t bother updating at times.

And it was stressful because I pretty much told the whole world about it, and not my wife. I have always been under the impression that the best way to spread a story was to tell people it was a secret. And yet, Dove was still surprised.

Now, she did know we had a pub booked. And she did know that I was selling my CD’s. And she did know I had a potential gig on Thursday. So I embedded lies within truths, trying my best to steer her into believing that the place didn’t have equipment for a band.

And now it’s finally over. We had a great time, and my stress level can ease down again. The day after, I was exhausted. I don’t know how people can do it. I only had 3 months of lying to my wife, and I was ready to burst from stress.

I could never have a secret identity. I’d tell everyone. Like movie super heroes. Have you noticed that movie super heroes seem to tell their secret identity to everyone they can? In the comics, they guarded it with their lives, and having someone know was worth a year in story lines.

Even in the old 1960’s Batman Show, he would guard his identity. Heck, if he was captured, the villains wouldn’t remove his mask. I always wondered about that. “Look, he’s imprisoned in some torture device. Take off his mask you morons!”

So, yes. Hopefully my life of sordid secrets is over! Unless I get some awesome super-powers. Like adamantium claws. Or an AT-AT.