You Know You're a Network Administrator When...
- All of your friends have an @ in the middle of their names.
- Your best friend is someone that you chat with online but have never met.
- You see a beautiful sunset and you expect to save it to your desktop.
- You are overcome with disbelief, anger and finally depressed when you encounter a Web page with no links.
- You ask a plumber how much it would cost to replace the chair in front of your computer with a commode.
- You feel driven to consult the "Cool Page of the Day" on your wedding day.
- You are driving on a dark and rainy night when you hydroplane on a puddle, sending your car careening toward a flimsy guard rail that separates you from the precipice of a rocky cliff and certain death. You frantically search for the "Back" button.
- When every member in your family has an e-mail account on the mail server where you work.
- You find yourself typing "com" after every period when using a word processor.com
- When you shut down your router and get an awful sick feeling like someone you love just died.
- When you come home late at night from reconfiguring the servers and your wife draped a blond wig over your monitor and tells you to marry this.
-You refuse to speak to your parents until they get e-mail.
-Your phone bill comes to your doorstep in a box.
-You laugh at people that have modems.
-You move into a new house and decide to Netscape before you landscape.
-You refer to going to the bathroom as downloading.
-You tell the cab driver you live at http://123.elm.street/house/bluetrim.html
-Your spouse makes a new rule: "The computer cannot come to bed." Not even the laptop.
-You start tilting your head sideways to smile. :^)
-You turn on your computer, and turn off your spouse.
-Your spouse says communication is important in a marriage...so you install Instant Messenger on her computer. And when she leaves you, you're :-(
-You begin to wonder how on earth your service provider is allowed to call 200 hours per month "unlimited."
- And finally,
You know you're a Network Administrator if you've sent this page to your yahoo account.