When you stop by to watch a local magician perform and he has a one page printed flyer done on cheap copy paper which thanks the local organization for hiring him,... yet you feel compelled to save that "flier" and put it in your boxes of saved magic "literature."

When you have a proud collection of magic DVDs but spend more time watching magic clips from You Tube.

When you feel compelled to make your own magic videos and post them on YouTube.

That you have a collection of miniature half and half/cream containers from restaurants as they remind you of Fakini thimbles...

You spend more than 12 hours per week in Hobby Lobby looking for magic ideas...

When you know what mouse tape is and its principle use in magic.

That you considered purchasing reels from a fishing shop ... that you don't hide the fact from your wife that you own a stripper deck... that you know a chop cup has nothing to do with cooking... that you wish paddle moves were used in the public schools... that you know what a spellbound switch is and a horizontal palm... that you know that at the M&M Café you receive a billet at the end of the meal.., that you know what the initials in FAB Magic stand for... that you know what magician produces a full sized Amtrak train engine as part of his act... that the Fall season reminds you of color changes- with cards... that you have a bunch of cheese graters just so you can say the 'next is my greater illusion" line... that you know how to do impressions with a standard corkscrew (Mark Spitz/Michael Phelps, Dorothy Hamil, the Exorcist, and a person being held up in the park)... that you once asked the guy in the meat department of a super market if he'd consider selling the fake hotdogs hanging from the deli overhead sign... that your well has nothing to do with water or black art with painting... that you read ever word of email Denny's advertisements...

That you're still posting even though you have food poisoning from the saturday afternoon party.

MB "Fall Season" reminds me of using the Sub Trunk for summer concerts.

When your wife wakes you in the middle of the night and says, "Honey, I just heard a mouse squeaking!" ... and you say, "Darn it. I've been meaning to oil that hinge on the sub-trunk."

When your wife is wondering why all her bras are attached with two silks.

When at breakfast, you try linking your Cheerios before you eat them...

When you are fixing 15 more pockets within the pockets in all your trousers.

When you have made an act called "tricks they never should have made" which can only be presented to magicians (Already presented 3 times, once at the IBM convention in san Diego) but no one other then a magician would have the faintest idea what your talking about and magicians hoot and holler.

(Hoot and holler I mean "Dis da tricks")

When it is 1 A.M. and you are exchanging emails with Nani.

When you set up an auto alarm telling you someone has just posted at the Café.

When you can remember the first trick you ever saw, and the last.

When you have so much stuff you need a catalog to remember what it is and a filing system to find it.

When you can remember all the versions of each effects you have learnt.

When you have an astrosphere vanishing box sitting on your large format printer stand.

When you cannot stop making friends with everyone that is posting at the Café forum.