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  1. 05-02-2006, 07:47 AM #1
    spyone
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    Hokey Smokes! (or: Hello again) :)

    A great many moons ago, I wandered away from this site.
    I really did not intend to leave. I just wanted to go away for a short while, but when I was thinking about coming back, the volume of messages I had not read (and would have to) seemed daunting, so I put it off. So, of course, the backlog of messages grew and grew, and eventually I gave up entirely on the idea of returning.

    Then I got an email warning me that the site was closing soon.
    I was saddened to hear it, but such things are inevitable. After all, I wasn't the only person who had "drifted away", and I wasn't even paying for it.
    So, I came over and made copies of what I felt were my very best posts (as well as some truly good posts by others) and said my goodbyes. I even found out where most folks were moving to, and went there for a while, but ... my heart wasn't really in it, and I drifted away again.

    About a month ago, I began to really crave somebody to talk to about Trek again. Most of my personal aquaintences have either heard everything I have to say or really don't care. So, I would have to find a board.
    I checked out TrekBBS, but found it wasn't exactly what I was looking for. I guess maybe I got turned off when I found all my old posts were gone (although my name and password still worked).

    So I was just poking about the internet, looking for things to help me organize my ideas, when Google led me to SirSig's page for mapping stuff, which had a link to these boards. I clicked the link, just for old times' sake, and ....
    Hokey Smokes! The board's still here!

    Now, I realize that the vast majority of you have never heard of me, having joined after my disappearance in February of 2004. But I will be poking in a few times a week, or at least several times a month, and I promise to have some new things to say (as well as some new polish on old ideas).

    I can't tell you how happy I am to find this board up and running.
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  2. 05-02-2006, 07:59 AM #2
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    Welcome back spyone,

    I've been on a bit of a blip/hiatus away as well, not long come back myself, but there still seems to be the usual insanity, threads that will not die and ideas floating around...

    And i for one hope it stays that way for a long time to come

    Later
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  3. 05-02-2006, 08:53 AM #3
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    Welcome back.

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  4. 05-02-2006, 09:09 AM #4
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    It's always a nice thing coming back and finding something has been waiting for you
    Welcome back...
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  5. 05-02-2006, 09:49 AM #5
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    Welcome back.
    We're all still here, new management but we are all here.
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    Hey, does this mean spyone has to go through the Noob process again
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  6. 05-02-2006, 10:59 AM #6
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    Welcome back, Spyone!

    Yep, a few of us old-timers are still out here...

    Do you need a quick update on what's happening with the game, or are you "up-to-speed"?
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  7. 05-02-2006, 02:18 PM #7
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    Quote Originally Posted by Phoenix
    Hey, does this mean spyone has to go through the Noob process again
    Yep, prodigals get the extra-special n00b treatment!

    But "Welcome back, spyone!" (n00b)
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  8. 05-02-2006, 02:49 PM #8
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    Noob-proccessing??

    Ultra-Secret-Noob Initiation Rites of Passage?

    Good thing I've still got my supply of stinging jellyfish.
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  9. 05-03-2006, 12:08 AM #9
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    Nice to see you're still around spyone. I'll have to dig through my line-crossing ceremonies for some really good 'wog -- I mean n00b -- punishments...
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  10. 05-03-2006, 08:05 AM #10
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    Welcome back ! I can't remember you, and I've been here for a little while, but then I have a habit of joining things just before they die
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    Quote Originally Posted by spyone
    Then I got an email warning me that the site was closing soon.
    ???? What's the scoop? Anyone? Or is this absurdly old news?
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  12. 05-04-2006, 04:55 PM #12
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    He's talking past tense here Don.. I.e the last time it happened AAAAAGES ago
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    Quote Originally Posted by Don Mappin
    ???? What's the scoop? Anyone? Or is this absurdly old news?
    I'd say that is still about your old anouncement back then before Cpt. Lundgren took over.
    There has been some change about Sarek's Lounge though only recently. But nothing is endangering the boards AFAIK right now...
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  14. 05-05-2006, 06:54 AM #14
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    Quote Originally Posted by Don Mappin
    ???? What's the scoop? Anyone? Or is this absurdly old news?
    Absurdly old. August 2004, I think.

    And, "Hi Don." Nice to see you're here.
    You're a Starfleet Officer. "Weird" is part of the job.
    When the going gets weird, the weird turn Pro
    We're hip-deep in alien cod footsoldiers. Define 'weird'.
    (I had this cool borg smiley here, but it was on my site and my isp seems to have eaten my site. )
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  15. 05-05-2006, 06:57 AM #15
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hugh Casey
    Do you need a quick update on what's happening with the game, or are you "up-to-speed"?
    I probably need that update.
    Basicly, the last ICON suppliment I got was the Dominion War Sourcebook.

    I have never looked at Decipher's products, but I will be trying to get up-to-speed on what has been done for ICON-Trek during my absence.
    You're a Starfleet Officer. "Weird" is part of the job.
    When the going gets weird, the weird turn Pro
    We're hip-deep in alien cod footsoldiers. Define 'weird'.
    (I had this cool borg smiley here, but it was on my site and my isp seems to have eaten my site. )
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