Slippery slope

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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

Re: Zhaan I did for the Farscape campaign,

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I'm not really that into costuming - haven't done it again. Far too much trouble. *g*

*Giggles.* So you've got at least one form of geekiness for which you've got a limit, costuming. ;)

I should probably have put things like 'joining Tolkien Society (at 24)'

Well, I filed joining the Voltron Force Fan Club under "Discovered Fandom." O:)

'discovering computer games (around 17/18)'

Ah! I can add Discovered Video Games to my list. We got our Coleco Vision game system before we got or Coleco Adam personal computer. :D

'giving talks at cons (around 25)', and 'going to a filk con (around 24)' on the list, too, though. *g*

I haven't gotten to a whole lot of cons so I haven't done much con stuff, though I should probably include my having volunteered at Leeds on my list as my latest first. *Considers.*

True.

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When fandom begins to involve nine hours of make-up and a week of festering rashes afterwards, it sort of stops being fun, even to an obsessive. ;-)