Birdy Work Bag O' Mail, Part 1

Let's respond to the first batch of your questions and fiery declarations, which you supplied in blessed abundance

Once again, loyal and gentle readers have responded with a horn o’ plenty of mailbag responses, which means I’ll be breaking up my responses into two posts. Herein lies the first one. Reader submissions have not been edited.

Ívan writes: 

“How can you, as a husband and a father, justify wasting money on childish things like nintendos? You are very old an…