Slippery slope

[hmpf]

I built my first computer today. Pretty much successfully, too. I.e. it starts up fine now, though there's still a lot of fiddling with it to be done. Technically, it's not 'my' computer, as I built it for a friend from parts cannibalised from her old computer and mine; but it's certainly the first I built on my own. (With a little help from a very patient friend on the phone. *g*)

Really, I always thought we were supposed to become *less* geeky as we grow up... but with me, that's definitely not the case:

- Discovered fantasy and sf at 16
- Discovered fandom at 21
- Got a computer and internet access at 22
- Went to my first con at 23
- Joined a fan campaign at 25
- Fell for comics, hard, at 26
- Started roleplaying at 27
- Built a computer at 29

What's next - LARP?

Comments

[jazzymegster.livejournal.com]

Nooooooooo! Not LARPing! That's eeeeeeeeeeevil!

*cowers in the corner*

Well,

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

alternatively, I could get rich, buy my parents a house, and move into said house's basement. And then proceed to wear only anoraks and to live on a chocolate diet, in order to get loads of pimples. That would be the only other feat of 'ultimate geekiness' I can imagine at the moment. ;-)

Or, well, I could become a computer programmer.

Or help organise a Worldcon.

Okay, I admit, there are some summits of geekiness I haven't scaled yet. *g*

(I'm sort of managing the "30-year-old virgin thing" fairly well already, though... )

Re: Well,

[jazzymegster.livejournal.com]

Dude, you're better at this geek thing than me. And OK, maybe LARPing isn't evil - it's just that LARPers (well, the ones in Bradford, anyway) tend to scare me.

I've done programming - apparently I'm quite good at it (I refuse to believe that!). But yes, you're definitely better at this geek thing than me.