Yup, I'm a shuttle fanboy all the way back to Crippen and Young. Don't think I've missed more than maybe 5 launches in the last 24 years.
I remember being an 11 year old kid, when my family lived in Mammoth, laying on the floor with the electric heater blowing on my feet in the pre-dawn west coast darkness on April 12, 1981. It was 4am, and I was up to watch it.
My addiction started before that though... I bet it wasn't a year after they glide tested the Shuttle off the 747 when I had a Revell plastic model of it in my little hands.