The Pen Tool

You would think that at an intermediate/advanced level, I would have mastered the pen tool by now, right? Wrong. I avoid it like the plague, and I go to drastic measures to work out around. Until today. I found a tutorial from psd.tuts (here) that has a file where it gives you a guide that gives you step by step instructions while using the pen tool to trace around some letters. It took me a while to get started but I eventually got the hang of it. I wouldn't say that I'm an expert at this point, but I think I could do some basic things with it.