Wil Wheaton signed my book!

Yeah? so? Im a geek. I fully except my geekitude. But I bet you dont understand the full depth to which Ive fallen.

I just got my selfpressie, you know, the kind that is sponsored by a generous grant from some wonderful aunt/uncle team, a splurgerific splash into commercialism, possessionism, and capitolism. The three C's... err... so here we go. Three CDs, one which was the new TMBG kid's ablum, "Here come the ABCs", the other two being just some oldtime stuff. Then TWO buffy books, and then TWO, count em, one, two, books by Wil. Wheaton.

And one is signed.

I did not expect that. Hell I was just excited about reading the books, but hehe, look, it was signed. I whooped. WEll okay it was more of a WOHOOOOOOOOOOO.

But Im sad that I did not get to see him in person :(

Did I mention that Wil, one l by the way, not two, changed my life, well just about as much as Neil Gaiman, and CJ Cherryh, hrm and Paddy. Yes, Patrick Stewart... And Mark Orkrand, and Baudelaire, and Colin Dexter, and Professor Scurvin, and Darwin, and both Adams' (sorry had to use the oxford apostrophe)... Richard and Douglas... no I dont think they are related, and Roget, yeah him with that cool thesaurus... Hmm now that I think about it, there are alot of people that changed my life, and mr. wheaton is only my current infatuation, I suppose the enamel will wear off... punny eh?

Hey, yer supposed to stop me rambling... back to the subject. Me the geek. You know, although I feel superubergeekie, there are just so many ways, so many directions, geeks can go. I mean besides the classic example of the techno-babbling-spectacled-unwashed-pizzabreathed-computer-geek, are techno-babbling-spectacled-in-erlenmyer-flask-tea-making-science-geeks, and pastey-rumpled-spectacled-book-geeks, and all sorts of others, like just plain old music-archivist-geeks whose holy grail is just some old recording of Cousin Emmy playing Peartree, which by the way I really would like to hear. I think the true stamp of geekitude is a childlike awe of things, an insatiable thirst for knowledge, a mad curiousity.

Here's the truth kiddies, you dont have to know things to be a geek. Although, sure, that helps one spring into action along with your fellow knowledge parched travelers on the road to enlightenment, geekdom is that spark in yer eye when, like a toodler faced with pressents on Christmas, you are faced with something new, or a puzzle, or maybe a hunt for information. And like that same toddler, if you hang with the analogy for another min, you have to unwrap and fish, and research, and experiment, cuse thats the best part.

Geeks just get to have Christmas everyday.