11 Signs You Need a De-Geeking Intervention

1. You wake up at 3:21 am feeling sick as a dog, I mean sick, and your first thought is "Hmmmm ... I just moved.  I wonder if I brought the 100' ethernet cable to work from bed when I can't make the WIFI work."
2. You actually did bring the 100' ethernet cable.
3. You worry that you don't have enough CD-Rs to finish burning that Redhat Distro to CD-R to install it.
4. A) YOu do have the CD-Rs and B) You do burn it despite the health issues in #10.
5. The person you find yourself IM'ing with on a Saturday night is your favorite *nix SysAdmin and your topics are solely *nix.  Sadly neither of you bring up the topic of the opposite sex.
6. The first reading material in your bathroom has artwork of a black and white animal on its cover.
7. Among the technical books you moved into your new home include S/360 Assembler Programming and Level 3 Basic Programming (hey .. you gotta span diverse worlds, don't you?)
8. The only stack of books heavier than your O'Reilly collection is your Encyclopedia Britannica.
9. You have enough cables, connectors and spare hardware at your fingertips to fix just about anything.
10. All these things actually bother you enough that you blog them to expose your issues to the world.
11. At 3:43 am it makes perfect sense to boot your laptop and repair a damaged grub.conf file under a fresh Gentoo install.

Why 11?  It's a prime #.  Primes are cool.

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