Well I still suck 15 months after first picking up a guitar.
But I now own 3 of them, and despite being equally aweful on all of them I am loving every moment that i'm aggitating my neighbours with them.
My latest guitar, Phoebe, is an accoustic with what I call her electric nipple - which is a pickup for amplification. I was quite astounded when I wired her electric nipple up to my amplifier for the first time a couple of days ago and started adding distortion! I had no idea an accoustic could sound so ... well, so electric! It's awesome!
Everybody should do this immediately. It will blow your knickers off.
/Metal