BOFH in training
I've visited the colocation facility where I keep pell and gehenna three times in the last week; once to work out the details of the move, once to move the machines, and once (today) to take the machines off the floor and stuff them into a rack so people won't trip over them. On two of those trips, Russell has come along, and the one time he didn't, he bitterly complained because he wanted to come. Today, when I went in, he said he wanted to go, the best asked him if he'd be bored, and he replied that no, it was a new building and new computers, so he'd have fun.
And he did. He even helped me pull a couple of machines out of a rack and yank some of the parts out for relocation into a newer machine. It's good work experience for a 5 year old -- when he's an adult, I'd suspect that automobiles will have no mechanic-accessable parts, but the PC world is a neverending parade of bizarre computer components that will require the presence of an onsite mechanic (or a 100x more expensive robot being driven by slave labour in mainland China) to keep the machines going. (Warranty not valid if Maximum Leader Genius goes ahead and invades Iran next month; the US-driven "computer revolution" won't do us very much good when petroleum is selling for US$300 a barrel. But, barring that, being a computer janitor is a fairly safe, if high stress and low pay, career in these waning days of the American Imperium.)