Nate the Great

Everyone knows him as Nate. Or Superman. Gamertag: Man0fSteel. He‘s always in a superman T-shirt of some sort. He’s a full-time construction foreman. And a full-time gamer. When he was introduced to his Nintendo-whore future wife, he introduced her to Microsoft. It’s been a three-way love affair every since. When they found out they were pregnant in February 2005, they joked that his due date would be the launch date of the Xbox 360. They were five days off. Every since then, Nate’s been a full time dad too.

His son’s name is Logan Xavier. He took two months off to help his wife out. Between meals, playing Call of Duty and the late night feedings, Nate never complained. In fact, he changed every diaper that first two months. He was always willing to cater to Logan’s every need, because he actually wanted to. He was always amazed when his son accomplished something new, no matter how trivial it seemed.

When Logan finally started walking and needed more space than a one bedroom apartment, Nate took side jobs to make ends meet in the summer. He would come home hot and dirty but always took the time to play with Logan or read to him. He even learned a few books by heart word for word because he read them so much. But Nate would always wait until Logan got tuckered out, take a quick shower and let his son fall asleep on his chest as he fired up his console to play for a couple hours, staying perfectly still and quiet.

It didn’t take long for Logan to figure out the bright round green buttons on the Xbox and the remotes. He turns them on for Nate, then squeezes himself in the recliner next to him, clutching the remote Nate got him so he wouldn’t feel left out. Nate’s annoying good at every game he plays. He owns over thirty Xbox games and has beat them all at least twice. In the living room, there’s two TVs complete with two Xbox 360s. He never judges games by their reviews. He buys them first and decides for himself. In fact, the manager at Gamestop knows Nate on a first name basis. And she knows Logan, because he takes Logan everywhere with him. Whenever someone says that Nate’s starting him off too early, that he’ll be better than him one day, Nate always responds “I hope so.” Because that day when Logan figured out the joysticks and triggers on Halo 2, only to walk ten feet, shoot the wall and throw a grenade, he managed to kill Nate on a fluke, but was Nate every so proud.

Nate is definitely a father of a year. His wife’s expecting again, and he’s already on full time baby-sitting duty. His family is never neglected and incredibly happy. It’s actually quite sickening.