Ron Pemberton

I have spent my entire adult life as a "bookworm", who loved history mainly. But, within the last two months, I have transformed into a "Geek-in-Training". Considering, I have read eleven books - thick books - on such subject matter as; XHTML, CSS, PHP, Java script, DHTML, web design, etc.. Not to mention, it has been compulsory to also obtain necessary software and, then, study the tutorials, forums, etc., on how to implement it's use. The vary act of posting to a forum requires a little fore-thought and observation. If you ask something in the wrong way - Minus the correct jargon - or, at the wrong time of day, you, risk being ignored, talked to rudely, or made to feel unwelcome by their intonation. Learning the etiquette is definitely requisite.

Have I mentioned the time consumption? The black hole of my geek training, swallows all time day and night and, begins to alienate friends and family. All I seem to do now is run around town, searching for that must-have text that I can't wait to arrive from Amazon. Every conversation, regardless the subject matter, somehow tangents off into a primer on something geek related.

I am an addict - I am a power-user. I need help.

I am beginning to be delusional. I am seeing things. Dreams of grandeur. Of the future. When i can quit my day job and become a "Support Maven" on a forum full-time. And, with a pimped-out site. Out-of-site.

The peer-pressure is killing me. I check my short-stats daily, knowing that without content and being at the top of all the societal "Who's-Who" list, I don't exist to anyone. No one has ever even made a comment on my site. I am on the dark side of the Moon.

This will all change. Won't it?