All tickered out: our correspondent describes the horrors of CNBC addiction-- and how he kicked the habit. (Humor).(Consumer News and Business Channel Partnership)

OKAY, I'M a CNBC junkie--why, I don't know, and neither will you after reading this. I squandered an entire day this past summer watching the cable channel. Notwithstanding an extreme case of real-time ticker-crawl dementia, I managed to scrawl these notes.

7:55 A.M. Squawk Box host Mark Haines and stock editor Joe Kernen joke about the French being socialists, not capitalists--again. It's an old act. Not sure I've consumed enough coffee for this job.

8:00 A.M. Real-time Nasdaq ticker starts as beleaguered tech stocks break from the gate for pre-market trading. Hold that coffee. And what's this? Some of my meager tech holdings are actually rising. Is something wrong?

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