I call you kid because I call everybody kid ^^ I spent four years as an online Agony Uncle dealing with people's emotional troubles, listening to and talking on every subject you can imagine. I may not be old in years, but if there's such a thing as emotionally old, I'm it. So don't sweat it kid, you're one of about four million that I call that
And the Wacom is the digital pen tablet that's incredibly famous in digital art circles as one of the best makes around. If you want to produce art directly on a computer, you use a Wacom pad (or a Wacom Cintiq monitor, which is where you draw straight onto the screen), or you struggle, up to you ^^
I say I've lost my pencil skills only because I don't draw with paper anymore, and my doodles look... well pretty crap without an undo button on hand whenever I try these days.
Anyway, don't worry about me, I still sketch just as much, but in a different medium.
FN!