Greetings, I'm Jacen, I'm 31 years of age and reside in lovely South East Texas. Lovely if you can get past the humid heat, bad drivers and horrible sense of overbearing that the local politicians like to call "honoring tradition". Whatever that's supposed to mean.

At any rate, I grew up with G1 Transformers, and despite my best efforts and those of my wife's family, I just can't seem to shake my addiction...after over two decades of fandom. My only saving grace is that I do have other addictions, tattoos for example.....although strangely I have no Transformers tats as of yet....kind of odd really. :roady: (These emoticons are awesome, by the way.) Video Games, my X-360 is the destroyer of boredom in my house, although his archenemy, PS3, will be arriving shortly. My wife, Ginger and three bratty boys....and really who has time for much more than that?

So at any rate, there I am. I came to find this sight, when last year at the premeire of Transformers I met this cat who sat and chatted all things TF with me while we waited, and he told me about this site. (I hope it's the right one.) And in my own procrastinating way, I've put it off until now....so here I am. Hola.

Welcome!

South East Texas, hmm? I wonder if that was BZ or Roadbuster who led you here...

Yeah, the only explanation. But if they told you they were cats, they lied.

Welcome to our board, I hope you enjoy yourself. I think you will fit perfectly with us. We are all addicted to TF, some are about your age, have Tattoos, wive/husband and bratty kids too. :swarm:

Oh, and since you are new... *smooOOoooOoch!!!*. I'm the resident smOoOching cat. Don't get excited, that is how we greet people where I'm from. :slurp:

Welcome to the hive mind!!! You can thank JW% for 95% or more of the smilies, hes badass like that! Call me BMS...dont ask what it means...cuz...then I'll have to Honor AUG tradition by dragging a random person into a dark room full of weasles....or something...

*runs off*

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*runs back in*

I like Texas!!

*runs back out*

You poor, sad little man. Run, run while there's still time! :twitch: :kablowie! :kill: :boom :kaboom :boink :poof :kablowie!

Always nice to see a new face around here, welcome to the AUG :)

Looks like the welcome wagon has already alternately smooched or nuked you, as per tradition.

Normally I'd say "don't mind them" but really, around here those are probably the people you should be minding.

Thanks for the comment about the emoticons or whatever they're called. I can't take credit for all of them, not even 95% of them really. Even of the ones I did make, very very few of them are entirely my creation. Still, it's something I find fun, and almost everyone else has liked so far, so I figure why not?

Look around the forums, see if there's anything you want to comment on. Always good to hear a new voice, so to speak.

Howdy!

Whoever you talked to, it wasn't I :roady: , coulda been BZ... :shootemup: who I can't describe upon penalty and pain of death... or PoopFligerPrime... or Labrat. We actually have a handful of Texans here. I can't really claim to be one, only lived in Houston 2 years so far.

And yes, there's more than a few here who are your age (or older...) so welcome aboard!

Heh.. yeah, he didn't do those jems like ;) and :lol: and let's not forget :mellow: he just did (or helped to compose from seperate resources) all the cool ones.

It's not surprising that it took over a year to find this place. We're a little... tucked-away these days. I notice that you posted over on the ezboard back around the time of the premier, and Tarantulas and Icefang were kind enough to redirect you... some months later. At any rate, welcome to machine. Hope you enjoy your stay.

Welcome! I'm Firefly....a loveable Leo...

:firefly: