You know it's time when....

[Anne Eastwell]

You know it is time to reassess your relationship with
your computer when....

1. You wake up at 4 O'clock in the morning to go to the bathroom and
stop to check your email on the way back to bed.

2. You turn off your computer and get an awful empty feeling, as if
you just pulled the plug on a loved one.

3. You decide to stay in college for an additional year or two, just
for the free internet access.

4. You laugh at people with 28.8 modems.

5. You start using smileys :-) in your snail mail.

6. You find yourself typing "com" after every period when using a word
processor.com

7. You can't correspond with your mother because she doesn't have a
computer.

8. When your email box shows "no new messages" and you feel really
depressed.

9. You don't know the gender of your three closest friends because they
have nondescript screen name and you never bothered to ask.

10. You move into a new house and you decide to "Netscape" before you
landscape.

11. Your family always knows where you are.

12. In real life conversations, you don't laugh, you just say "LOL, LOL".

13. After reading this message, you immediately forward it to a friend!

[hychang]

Sounds like some software developers I know!! Although I'm guilty of a variation on #1. I get up at 0500 to go to the gym and stop to check e-mail after going to the bathroom.

[scootermcfly]

Um, I resemble some of those remarks....

At any point in time, I can check my email and have multiple systems that are on doing something for some company that I contract with.

me=work-a-holic

Scooter McFly