Hello All!
Thank you so, so, so very much!
I smiled so big, my cheeks high-fived behind my head.
I'd like to start off with a formal apology for my turning into a recluse. If it weren't for Deepthought's continual coaxing to reenter society...er...the diving utopia that is Deeperblue. I've also been getting back to my art lately, so that's taken much of my time as a recluse...that, and playing Pong with Greta Garbo and Howard Hughes.
What, did you think they were dead? I introduced them to oxygen tents.
I was a total party-pooper until Deepthought sent me this thread. This makes my birthday seem refreshingly valid now. I'm constantly bragging about all the classy people I know around the world via Deeperblue. And who denies that the jokes forum trains one to be the life of the party, elevator, emergency room, hostage situation, bomb shelter, bingo casino, state execution, or any other situation for that matter?
It's been a tumultuous year, since last April. I haven't felt worthy of Deeperblue status in quite a while, as I have fallen terribly out of shape (hard times on old Sinky). I'm slowly crawling out of my foxhole to see if there's still life; sure enough, you can still find the world's kindest descendants of aquatic apes on the globe at my only home-away-from-home (-away-from-home, if you take to account my falling off the face of the earth). I'm out of my slump, I think; I'm getting my lost creativity back, and I've found myself involuntarily holding my breath whenever I see pictures of blue waters on vacation magazine covers at my land-locked bookstores.
I should be getting my new computer soon, and at home, to boot! I'll see y'all in a couple of days when I kick the rest of my troubles away in the turbulent wake of my Sporasubs for the first time in about a year and three months. I hope I can still fit my fat face into my Mares. I could stand to lose another 60lbs this summer. Apnea laps, do your work!