yay!
i return to the dope as a bonafide subscriber after a year’s worth of lurking and laughing and crying:
sad stories
fun stories
kittens
cats
gabriela
sampiro
mr bus guy
so many more posters out there that i’ve enjoyed for so many months.
they’re all mine to post to and about!
life IS good.
congratulate me… 
Welcome aboard the Dope. Enjoy the stay.
Besides diving what are your other interests?
What part of the East were you from?
Jim {How come I never make one of these new poster’s list?} 
Welcome back to posting Scubaqueen ! We’ll be looking forward to your posts. 
i’m a long-ago transplanted new jerseyite from washington township, some ten miles out of the city or so (near westwood and ridgewood).
i’ve been in indiana so long (god help me) i’m afraid going back east permanently would probably do me in. and i HATE friggin’ basketball!!!
besides diving, i’m a big-time community theater person, doing as many as five shows a year either on stage or behind the scenes. the divemaster is a transplanted pennsylvanian (york) so we have something else in common.
Congrats on upping and welcome! You’ve lurked long enough so you probably know what’s expected. Feel free to have a seat while I call the handler…
Is it time for the squid already? She might actually enjoy it; she loves to dive. Anyone know if the goat is back?
i heard about that goat… back. stay back - all of you! :eek:
Hey, scubaqueen, it’s okay. No worries. Just let me guide you right over here to get you out of the goat’s path…
runs for trapdoor lever and pulls it Okay, guys, on the show!
Welcome!
I think the goat is Otherwise Occupied, it being close to Christmas and all.
yeah, i hear spray paint is a bitch to get out.
Maybe we can fix you and Scuba Ben up on a blind date.
Welcome Scubaqueen! I’m a 40° 2’ N, 86° 5’ W man myself, by way of 41° 24’ N, 81° 51’ W (or thereabouts).
Oh, waaah - try being a poster for over six years, with ten and a half thousand posts, and still never making anyone’s lists. But at least I’m not bitter, nosirree.
Ahem - welcome back, Scubaqueen.
hee.
that’s a very nice offer, bibliocat, but the dive master would probably NOT be amused.
We would.
I never make any of these lists either. 
Oh, don’t worry, he’s a big ol’ softy. He doesn’t bite*. He’s really quite gentle.
Now, the squid on the other hand…
You called?
Tell all about your latest dive trips, Scubaqueen, and I’ll tell all about my time in June 2005 on a liveaboard off Belize. (Belize Aggressor III, I’ve got to go with them again some time!)
Don’t you worry one little bit. You’re on my list.
Psst. I don’t think he meant the “ignore” list.