tell your mum you love her and bring him as cup of tea. you might be lucky and he lets you off,
If that dont work you have a really nice games machine. I'll let your folks know you havent been abducted by aliens, you've just been sucked into the blue lights, lol
I know the blueness might seem a little 'boy racer', but i've been a hardcore gamer for years (I nearly went into small time pro with CoD2 but was let down by the great service that is BT's failed attempt at broadband), so i've always wanted that over the top gamer case look.
I do however have problems sleeping and need total darkness. This may be a spanner in the works. A £1000 spanner. But a great spanner nontheless.