Oh, trippinmickey, that's too bad you have to miss time with your family. I understand about the noise and movements; I had that problem with going to the Circus with my husband; thought I'd have an interesting time (had never been to a circus) but I had to shut down instead and was miserable. My husband didn't understand and wouldn't leave.

You should teach your wife to do streaming video :-) Then you could watch just the "event" without all the surrounding goings-on. Have you ever thought of trying to invent a "blinker" device like they have on some horses in horse races so they will stay on task and not get spooked by their shadow (very common; horses see their shadow and try to "jump" it which gets them out of stride, etc.) or the other horses around them? Maybe doing something like videotaping an event so you focus only on what's in front of you would help?