WHAT'S YOUR EXCUSE?

   You know you’re addicted to NoBs….

- You talk daily about NoBs members like you've known them forever and they are your best friends.

- When your significant other knows not only other NOBS members' names but also their photographic specialty, hobbies, and website addresses.

- You spend three hours on the phone with someone you've never called before because you know them from this forum.

- When this forum is the last thing you see at night and the first thing you see in the morning when you are eating your breakfast.

- When you desperately want to meet all of the people on this forum in person and you begin dreaming up ways to call in sick or fake the need to    take a couple days off work to go.

- When you begin referring to your friends by their NOBS names and/or their avatar images.

- When you sign your name to your work emails with your NOBS user name.

-  I really get annoyed when the day job breaks in and interrupts my NObSing.

- When your significant other bribes you to CLICK THE RED X.

- When my students ask me if I am going to be a while checking my nobs (pronounced like door knobs) today after school.

- You read every single thread until there are no bulls heads showing, only the "no new posts"...then you refresh every 2 minutes hoping someone has    replied to something....even if its only in the NIKON thread.

- Reading posts on the forum is the only adult interaction you've had all day.

- You put the baby down for a nap 30min early so you can troll the forum in peace.

- You clear room in the study for a blanket and baby toys so you can still troll the forum even when the baby is awake and playing.

- When you are taking a shower and you can't dry off fast enough to post this new thread just because you know everyone will laugh!

- When you refresh the forum list looking for new posts during commercial breaks, half-times, and intermissions.

- Wife? I have a wife?

- You quit drinking coffee on your coffee breaks so you can catch up on all the latest posts...

- You like reading the forum more than your girlfriend

- You are sitting at your computer and you know (you just know) you have to get to the bathroom.
   really soon but you keep reading posts until the very last moment before you have to run for the toilet!

- You want a NoBS birthday cake on your birthday

- Your list of professional trade organizations you belong to includes NoBS

- Your day starts and ends on NoBS

- For Holloween you want to be Super Hodgy

- If you keep track of members by their avitars and when they change their avatar it takes you weeks to remember who that is behind the avatar.

- If you signed up for the new forum the DAY it was launched!

- If you start to memorize all the Canadian Holidays even though you don't live in Canada.

- If you slip and say (insert word here) and get scared you are going to get kicked off NoBS

- When you get fired from your day job because you don't work anymore.

- What day job?

- When you are trying to post as much as you can, to get a new NoBS title.

- If you post a question and answer yourself directly after.

- When your DSL goes down and you walk to the library in the pouring rain to use their computer to check the forum! (and you do this twice a day    for one very long rainy week!)

- If you're wondering if can add "NoBs member" as a title on your business card.

- If your husband says he wants a divorce and you tell him you'll talk about it after you finish watching the latest tutorial from the download section.

- When you start talking like a Canadian for days after downloading all the tutorials (a Texas girl with a Canadian accent)

- When you start saying "ya" and "aboot" because you've watched so many download videos and your family looks at you like you've got 2 heads!

- If you've got the dialogue on those downloads freakin' MEMORIZED.

- You now include a eye to the camera Hodgyshot in your video work just for fun.

- You have ever joked while shopping "So I'm walkin' in the mall you see..." and your significant other actually gets the joke!

- You get on the internet and check the Canadian weather reports so you can rub in the huge difference in temperature as compared to your balmy    locale...

- You wish there were a Tim Horton's in your neighborhood.

- You are looking into getting Skype or some similar services so you can chat it up with NOBS-ers all over the world.

- You've ever stood for the Canadian national anthem during a hockey game. At your own house.

- You have your laptop on the kitchen counter reading & replying to the fourms while making dinner. Lol

- You plan your family vacation route around visiting another NOBS member along the way.

- You can't wait until the next workshop so that you can meet all your friends in person.

- When you're too busy reading the forums instead of booking weddings.

- When something really great or really crappy happens, and the first people you tell are your fellow noBsers!

- When you actually have told a friend I needed to DEFOG my basement to get rid of earwigs. I didn't catch what I said until she looks at me and    says "DEfog?? what's that??" I said, "uhhh you know... when you put your unsharp mask on, and spray your threshold at a radius in the amount of    500% ??" LMAO!!

- When you click on the forum 3 times for every image your workflowing in photoshop.

- When people you have never met know what your favorite beer is.

- When this forum is the last thing you see at night and the first thing you see in the morning when you are eating your breakfast.