2 words: Family Computing. When that magazine showed up and there was something I could use on my Apple IIe, I would sit there (or kneel, actually, we had one of those 80s kneeling chair things) endlessly, even skipping meals or forgetting to go take a leak every once in a while. I discovered flow state in 5th grade and didn't even realize it.

I used to skip recess in elementary school to go write code in the computer lab; the teachers all knew me and would laugh out loud when I made the computer make a noise... until one day when I programmed the monophonic speaker to sound like it was polyphonic and out came the title theme from Terms of Endearment in all of it's 80s glory. I miss those days.

Man, mavis beacon teaches typing! I wonder if that ever actually did me any good.