I am officially a big geek. How big a geek am I? Some friends gave me the Buffy the Vampire Slayer board game -- board game! -- and I can't wait to play it. You can be good or evil, there's a phases of the moon device, there's a research skill component ... Cool!

Geek. Big geek.

I am not, however, as big a geek as Rich, who is going to a "LAN party." I'll let him explain:

Essentially everyone involved brings along a computer full of videogames that can talk over a computer network, and then you plug them all together and do so. For 18 hours a day. It's a blast.

Yup. Between that and the TiVo thing, he's a much bigger geek than I am. I bow to your superior geekiness.

So if Rich is the ubergeek amongst my circle of aquaintences, why am I always proclaiming Wendy the Geek Goddess? Well, because despite her protests, she is pretty geek savvy. And she's here. Rich isn't. When I have a stupid technical problem (and I think I've mentioned that I'm a word person, not a code person), all I have to do is be pathetic and go downstairs. Plus, I've found that it's wise to suck up to the tech people no matter where you are. It's very convienent.