This actually describes how I have approached system administration over the past few years. I'm just now trying to change that. I'm embarrassed to say, but I'm writing HTML for the first time -- in 2013, not back in 2003 when all the cool kids were.

OK so I'm not a cool kid anymore. But I can be again, I just have to slog through some tomes and actually build something cool. Isn't that what being a nerd is all about?